In the past, architects were technicians in ancient Greece and artists during the Renaissance. Initially, architecture emerged as an applied discipline through the interaction and integration of various fields, signifying that future architecture can also develop through interactions with diverse domains.
My architectural design journey is realized through interactions among numerous fields. Thinking is expanded through the metaphorical similarities between architecture and other areas, and through this journey, the design is completed. The many discoveries made throughout the journey, traversing different layers, are integrated into the power of architecture’s potential.
Academic Works Professional Works
1. Inhale-Exhale
Design Studio1, Fall 2024
2. Dynamics in Verticality
Pro Seminar: Skins, Fall 2024
3. Blending Node
Design Studio 5, Spring 2022
4. Victory of Jagalchi Market
Design studio 3, Spring, 2021
5. Community Tree
Design Studio 2, Fall, 2020
6. Gravity
Design Studio 7, Spring, 2023
7. Coming Across
Design Studio 5, Spring, 2022
8. Gravity
Design Studio 7, Spring, 2023
9. Share House for the Timids
Design Studio 1, Spring 2020
1. Breezy Hill Villa (In Progress)
Housing, Winter 2025, Corals inc
2. Future Generations Support Complex
Competition, Winter 2020, Pusan Architecture
Hyberdizing
CO2 Capturing
Urban Sampling
Hybrid Object
Fall
Proseminar: Skins
AI Image to Skin
Based on images obtained through Midjourney’s blending feature, this project explores the potential of functioning as a skin by extracting forms, separating similar elements, and layering them.
Phase2: Respect of Verticality
With the goal of designing dynamism while respecting the strongly vertical context, the project was gradually developed by varying density, scale, layering, and assembly.
Prince St, Soho, Manhattan
X X Insert Facade System
AI Generative Image
Image to 3D Modeling
Making Inital Geometry
Layering
Different Density, Scale
Think about Verticality
Blurring Geometry
Materialization
Blending Node
Courtyard Lamp
Visitor Trail
Business Lounge
Victory of Jagalchi Market
Preservation of Traditional Markets and Sensibility
This project aims to preserve a traditional market while simultaneously allowing for a rich experience of dynamism and vibrancy. The building above the market serves as an upper cultural facility, providing the entrance and roof for the entire market.
Inspired by the iconic object of traditional markets, the building above the market draws inspiration from canopies and is supported by a tensile structure system. This allows the building to preserve the distinctive ambiance of the traditional market while incorporating a modern and functional structure. The canopies, which play the role of the building’s surface, are suspended in various ways based on their functions. The overlapping canopies, suspended in this manner, symbolically represent the disorderly yet harmonious characteristics of the market. Through the fragmented scenes of the market seeping through the gaps between the canopies, one can directly feel the atmosphere of the market. The complementary architectural structure with historical value, alongside the traditional market, will offer a rich experience to the local community and tourists alike. This will contribute to preserving the market as a cornerstone of daily life while increasing its value as a tourism asset.
Spring
Academic
Professor Jaehoon Jook Cultural Complex
The first market is created when people gather to buy and sell daily necessities and various items. Over time, buildings are erected and streets become organized, and the variable and temporary characteristics of the market fade away. The physical market becomes standardized and loses its sensitivity. What is the role of architecture in preserving the traditional market and its unique sensibilities? A hint could be found in the objects used in the formation of the first market, such as tents.
Community Tree
Spring 2020 2020.09 ~ 2020.12
Academic
Professor Youngjoo Kang community library
The goal of the project is to design an architectural tree that serves as a focal point for the local community. The abstracted and architecturally transformed tree allows for a spatial experience of nature’s diversity, suggesting an expanded role for a single building. The project includes a library and community facilities for today’s communities.
The design inspiration originates from the location and site-specific similarity to an old, large tree in a typical Korean rural village, which served as a focal point for the community.
The tree, which facilitated community interaction as a temporary shelter, was situated at the village entrance. This sets the direction for the role of the site and the new object to be created.
The left side represents concept drawings that acknowledge the essential elements and composition of a tree, exploring the potential for architectural transformation. Through this, the arrangement of programs and form development was advanced.
2023.06
The project explores the relationship between the theories of physics and architecture. It began with my idea that architecture has the power to attract people, similar to how massive celestial bodies in space draw objects towards them. The aim of the design is to create spaces that embody the force of architecture, including a complex facility for the local community.
The structures and forms created through the metaphorical similarities between physics and architecture will provide people with new shapes and a variety of spatial experiences.
column-beam system
lanscape slab
solid wall & light well
Oparation2: Hohmann transfer orbit
The theories of relativity and the Hohmann transfer orbit have been applied to architecture, developing them into structural basic forms and specific designs, respectively.
Design Sequence
Coming Across
Spring 2022
2022.03 ~ 2022.06
Academic Professor MyeonggeonKim Cultural complex
Experience with Discovery
In Korea, Daehak-ro(university districts) is a symbolic area to play outside of everyday life. What is an unusual space that can satisfy these empirical demands?
This project includes an art center program and aims to meet the accidental and heuristic spatial experiential demand. The design was inspired by the interior space of the cave that provides a spatial experience similar to the purpose of the project.
The building provides a completely different spatial experience from the outside context, and both the internal/external spaces included in the building include continuous sequences and programs discovered accordingly.
Concept Model cutted urethane foam/ 10x10x10 in / 2022
space: cave
Unconventional experiences begin with discovery. Then, what constitutes a space for discovery? The design was inspired by a natural element, a cave. If there were spaces like caves, people could explore and have accidental, ‘discovery-oriented’ experiences.
The possibility of architectural transformation was explored through models and drawings.
As a design strategy for spaces of discovery, I propose a contrast between flexible and rigid exteriors, continuous internal slabs, and the arrangement of in-between programs that mediate between them.
G.L
Sharehouse for the Timid
Spring 2020
2020.03 ~ 2020.06
Academic
Professor SeongSu Kim
share house
This share house design project focuses on creating a living space for introverted individuals. The concept centers around providing residents with the ability to retreat and have privacy whenever they desire, much like finding solace in a thicket of bushes. This metaphorical use of foliage as a sanctuary is integral to the design, offering a serene and secluded environment within the communal setting.
The architecture and interior layout are carefully crafted to facilitate both social interaction and personal solitude, allowing inhabitants to engage with others when they choose to and retreat to their private spaces when they seek solitude. This unique balance aims to respect individual preferences while fostering a sense of community among those who value their personal space.
The design starts with the concept that, much like animals that prefer seclusion find safety and peace in the thickets of a forest, a space with gradual boundaries, similar to bushes, can offer a refuge of inner peace where people can retreat and observe their surroundings.
To create such a bush-like space, the exterior and interior areas are blended appropriately, and the numerous in-between spaces that arise serve as both areas for solitude and for community interaction in share house.
suggestion for timids - 2 way unit
The primary purpose of this design is to offer greater convenience and privacy to the occupants. Specifically devised for people who are less sociable, this system allows the user to choose whether or not to encounter people in the yard or on the terrace.
