Journey to Explore
Kim Gyu Beom
Bachelor of Architecture at Pusan National University
MSArch Candidate, 2024 4F,
Layered Expansion
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.
1. Victory of Jagalchi Market
Design studio 3, Spring, 2021
2. Community Tree
Design Studio 2, Fall, 2020
3. Coming Across
Design Studio 5, Spring, 2022
4. Gravity
Design Studio 7, Spring, 2023
5. Share House for the Timids
Design Studio 1, Spring, 2020
6. Every Pavillion
Architectural Expression, Fall, 2020
Victory of Jagalchi Market
Spring 2021
2021.03 ~ 2021.06
Academic 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 2020.09 ~ 2020.12
Academic
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.
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.
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
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.
column-beam system
lanscape slab
solid wall & light well
General Theory of Relativity
Design Sequence
According to Einstein’s theory of relativity, objects with mass curve space-time, resulting in the experience of gravity. By applying this structural model of masssurrounding space to the structure of architectural programs and mediating spaces, I have proposed the structure and basic form of a gravitational experiential space.
Oparation2: Flow of gravity
Transfer orbit
The theory of relativity and the associated Hohmann transfer orbits provided specific forms. The orbits are transformed into visualized forces, evolving into concrete forms that represent the direction and magnitude of the forces and their mutual influences.
program strength (mass) x n entering space (positive) gathering space (negative) +program volume turning rate (slope) x n ▲ + clockwisecounter clockwise tra c site external force program possibility N site traffic
program strength (mass) x n entering space (positive) gathering space (negative) +program volume turning rate (slope) x n ▲ + clockwisecounter clockwise tra c site external force program possibility N
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program volume turning rate (slope) x n ▲ + clockwisecounter clockwise tra c site external force program possibility N program volume turing rate (slope)
entering space (positive) gathering space (negative) +
x n entering space (positive) (negative) + volume turning rate (slope) x n ▲ + clockwisecounter clockwise tra c external force program possibility external force
The gravitational field space, motivated by the relationship between mass and the surrounding space, bends according to the program, and through the slopes created, users experience the force.
Additionally transformed fields, created by the relationships between various forces, allow users to feel these interactions and create experiential diversity through gravity.
Hohmann
The materials and form of the interior facade, contrasting with the conventional box-shaped exterior facade that aligns with the nearby context, create a sense of uniqueness in the inverse experience, signaling a gravitational spatial experience.
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.
4F Floor Plan
01. house for one
house for two
sharing yard
small yard
transfer piloti
Vertical Sequence
The goal of the project is to create a shelter that fills the void of empty rooftops. Rooftops serve as a place for building users to momentarily escape from their daily routines, requiring brief moments of rest. Satisfying this need is the aim of the design, and the strategy involves creating multipurpose objects whose uses are discovered over time, thereby providing people with the joy of experience. Through these experiences, people will achieve the purpose of enjoying a brief respite
Professor Giljae Shim
Rooftop
Partial Floor Plan
Elevation
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