I enjoy starting with simple forms, then gradually transforming them— crafting rhythms and variations through repetition. My design approach is rooted in layering and iteration, where subtle differences accumulate over time, giving space its own depth and rhythm.
Through this process, architecture becomes more than form—it opens itself to metaphor and metonymy. I believe architecture is not merely functional space, but a medium that invites multiple interpretations and sensory experiences.
I am especially drawn to the unfamiliar atmospheres born from the meeting of disparate worlds—art, technology, physics, and culture. These combinations generate new sensations and shapes. I explore the tension and harmony that emerge in between, seeking new possibilities for space.
The projects presented in this portfolio are grounded in that philosophy— each one a rhythmic phrase, and the whole, a carefully composed variation.
Academic Works Professional Works
1. Inhale-Exhale
Design Studio1, Fall 2024
2. Vertical Dynamics
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. 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
Fall 2024, Pratt Institute
Aug. 2024 - Dec. 2024 Academic, Individual Work
Professor Alex Tahinos Housing, Public Park + CO2 Capturing
This project explores how new CO2 capturing and processing devices can be integrated into familiar urban environments, focusing on the interaction between functionality and form. By analyzing how the functional aspects of CO2 capturing devices can seamlessly merge with architectural forms, the project aims to discover new possibilities for architecturalization. Through 3D modeling research, it examines the roles and forms of urban public spaces, such as parks and their individual elements, to understand how these technologies can organically blend into the existing urban fabric.
In particular, the Hybridizing Modeling Experiment was conducted at the intersection of technology and architecture, allowing for an exploration of new spatial experiences where advanced technology coexists with familiar urban elements. This process not only seeks to visualize the functional performance of CO2-capturing devices, but also aims to redefine the aesthetic and atmospheric qualities of urban spaces in the era of climate change.
Through hybrid experimentation, the potential for integrating new technologies with the urban environment both systemically and sculpturally has been explored, and the process has now reached the stage of applying these concepts to architecture. This phase focuses on how hybrid objects can be incorporated into architectural design and their surrounding context.
The site is a corner lot previously used as a parking area, with balconies of adjacent buildings facing its rear. Additionally, the windows facing the street emphasize verticality.
Respecting this context, the CO2 Free Park is positioned towards the rear balconies of the site, while the exterior envelope aligns with the vertical rhythm of neighboring windows, creating a contrast with the interior conditions of the building.
Perspective Section
01 Housing Unit
02 CO2 Free Park 03 CO2 Processing Facility
04 Inhaling Machine Part
05 Exhausting Machine Part
Broom St
Vertical Dynamics
Fall 2024, Pratt Institute
Aug. 2024 ~ Dec. 2024
Academic, Individual Work
Professor Fabian Llonch Proseminar: Skins
AI Image to Skin
This project explores geometry derived from AI-generated images and investigates how it can be transplanted into existing contexts as a skin design.
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
Design Chunk Model
3d print / 2024
01. AI Generative Image
Image to 3D Modeling
Making Inital Geometry
Layering
Different Density, Scale
Think about Verticality
Blurring Geometry
Materialization
01. ISO Metric View 02. Layering System 03. Testing Printing
vertical rain string
Diagonal Prism
Spring 2022, PNU
Mar. 2022 ~ Jun. 2022
Academic, Individual Work
The site is located at a busy intersection where people pass through frequently. The nearby commercial facilities attract a diverse mix of visitors, including university students and local residents. Given this dynamic and bustling urban context, the design proposes a space where various groups can come together and escape the city’s noise, providing an environment for cultural and leisure activities.
Professor MyeonggeonKim Cultural complex
Urban Node
Spring 2021, PNU
Mar. 2021 ~ Jun. 2021
Academic, Individual Work
Professor Jaehoon Jook Cultural Complex
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.
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, PNU
Sep. 2020 ~ Dec. 2020
Academic, Individual
Professor Youngjoo Kang
Local 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.
demensional formation (leaf part)
community tree
The combinations originating from elements possess a rhizomatic structure, and such a structure is proposed to maximize encounters and interactions among people, thereby fostering communication within the community.
Spring 2023, PNU
Mar. 2023 ~ Jun. 2023
Academic, Individual
Professor Chaerin Lee Community Center
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
Mar. 2022 ~ Jun. 2022
Academic, Individual Work
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.
cave initial concept sketch
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.
exoskeleton wall
curve-grid
G.L
Sharehouse for the Timid
Spring 2020, PNU
Mar. 2020 ~ Jun. 2020
Academic, Individual Work
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.
This project is a renovation of a vacation home located at 551 Breezy Hill, consisting of one basement level and two stories above ground. Although the house is currently in use as a vacation property, the renovation focuses on improving the interior to enhance the user experience and generate additional income. The basement, previously used for storage, was converted into a recreation room. On the first floor, a small living area was transformed into a bedroom, and a spacious new bathroom was added. On the second floor, the living room was expanded by relocating the dining area to the terrace, adding a sense of spatial dynamism. Additionally, a framed visual axis was created at the entrance to stage a composed scene leading into the living room.
My role in this project was to produce the basic drawing set, including sections, elevations, and detailed drawings. Through this process, I developed a deeper understanding of the construction principles of typical two-story wood-frame buildings in the U.S. and gained valuable insight into interior architectural detailing.
Future Generations Support Complex
Internship(Full Time), Pusan Architecture
2020.01 - 2020. 02
Professional, Collaborative Work
Childcare Support Center Competition (2nd Prize)
A Childcare Facility Balancing Public Accessibility and Security
This project aims to achieve both public accessibility and security by leveraging the unique characteristics of the site. The site is located on a steep slope, with a small forest at the rear and a main pedestrian road at the front. Taking advantage of this terrain, the outdoor play area is placed on the upper level, enclosed by the building and the forest to ensure a safe environment for children. Meanwhile, the multipurpose auditorium is positioned on the lower level, enhancing accessibility not only for the children at the daycare but also for local residents. Through this design, the facility goes beyond its childcare function to serve as a communal space for the neighborhood.
