ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO BY: YUNA KIM MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE UCLA (2015 - 2017) PCC (2012 - 2015)
Personal C.V Contact Information Yuna Kim 1717 N. Lake Ave Pasadena CA 91104 kyn514@g.ucla.edu 626.993.7570 Education UCLA (2015 - 2017) Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies Pasadena City College (2012 - 2015) Architecture Associates Degree Awards Facultry Women’s Club Scholarship (2016) Asian American Architects / Engineers Foundation Award (2016) Emma B. Keller Award (2016) Thomas Cole. Architect’s Dream Award (2015) Relevant Experience UCLA Print Lab Consultant (2015 - Present) WYF Architect Intern (2015) 2nd Year Studio TA (2014 - 2015) Software Skills Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design Maxwell Renders, Rhinoceros 4.0 and 5.0 AutoCAD Technical Skills English, Korean, Spanish, Arabic Piano, Guitar
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Office I - Circles UCLA Architecture Studio 121 Completed 2015 Winter Intructor: Erin Besler
Office 2 - The Fit Out UCLA Architecture Studio 121 Completed 2015 Fall Intructor: Erin Besler Group member: Eunice Lee
The Dark Room UCLA Architecture Technology 141 Completed 2015 Fall Intructor: Mohamed Sharif
Above Finished Flooring UCLA Architecture Arch 143 Completed 2016 Spring Instructor: Gabriel Fries-Briggs
Tri Force PCC Architecture 14 - Materials Completed 2013 Fall Instructor: Casey Hughes Group Member: Nicholas Guarna
The Bent Bar UCLA Architecture Studio 122 Completed 2016 Fall Intructor: Katy Barkan
The Gap PCC Architecture 20B Completed 2014 Fall Instructor: Coleman Griffith
Office 1 - Circles UCLA Architecture Studio 121 Completed 2015 Winter - Academic Project Intructor: Erin Besler
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A typical plan does not have to be like a “graphing paper” which is based off of rectangles while being minimal. A typical plan can be made up of circles and have many components that create the shape of the space within, just like this project does.
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Although an ideal plan should have minimal components, this project does quite the opposite by having three cores - which are the center of the three circles. The misaligned cores all appear on the first floor and they each create a different radial grid system.
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This project is about breaking the ideas of a typical office plan by experimenting with circles rather than rectangles. The three circles all share a single center point. By shearing these circles, it creates the surfaces to interchange its position from interior to exterior. At the same time, the interlacing creates gaps and space that barely meet at points.
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The main goal of this project is to understand the relationship between “interior” and “exterior” space by exploring the intersecting of basic forms. Using this relationship, the project is to design an office building with a given site, bounding box and specific programs.
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Office 2 - The Fit Out UCLA Architecture Studio 121 Completed 2015 Winter - Academic Project Intructor: Erin Besler
Project Description Continuing from part one of the Office Project, the main goal of this project is to design the fit out of an office building. Using an already designed office building, our group had to design a private office. By looking back at the modern definition of “private” we focused on creating a private space which allows for communication, thus enforcing the idea behind individuality while also promoting collaboration. Based on the idea from the “Panopticon”, this project aims to control the visibility within the different spaces throughout the office. By placing the manager’s office in the center, this project locates each office such that the manager can view all of the associate offices whenever he wants to. By using the already existing column grid of the building, the office spaces “wrap” around each other in pods, allowing public spaces to exist in the center of each pod. The circulation within the building allows workers to constantly interat with each other, to exchange information and simply “mingle” throughout the day. Also, although the location of the core suggests one unit within each floor, the fit out suggest three units within each floor, reflecting on the three cubes that create the exterior form. Work divided: Drawings done by Yuna Kim. Preparation for Physical Model (laser-cutting files) done by Eunice Lee. Physical Model built together. 2nd Floor Plan
3rd Floor Plan
Physical Model of fourth floor. All three floors were built. Regular size 8 shoes for scale of model.
The Dark Room UCLA Architecture Technology 141 Completed 2015 Fall - Academic Project Intructor: Mohamed Sharif
Project Description Based on a previous exercise through Enric Miralles’s “How to Lay Out a Croissant”, the main goal of this project is to design a darkroom by translating, transforming and deforming the proportional geometries that were explored before. The result is a 2 story photographer’s darkroom whose primary programmatic objective is the precise controlled deflection and diversion of incidental light. This conceit will inform how apertures are designed and composed to create intermediate scales and form a rich layer of detail. This project focuses on continuous loop that ribbons to create the exterior form. The roof speaks a differen language as it is more of a truncated roof system which created various types of shadows during the day.
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Above Finished Flooring UCLA Architecture Arch 143 Completed 2016 Spring - Academic Project Intructor: Gabriel Fries-Briggs
Project Description This project is divided into three parts: filling, framing and finishing. The main goal of this project is to address the part-to-whole problem by establishing protocols for aggregating material units. These units or modules will be systematically joined to construct an interior figure.
Filling: Part one focuses on developing a single unit that could become aggregated to create a whole. By giving certain constraints (a bounding box), students are expected to develop a traditional masonry construction through shape, joinery, and variation. This part focuses on defining the interior figure of the whole through its assembly.
Part I: Filling
Framing: Part two moves from solids to frames. Continuing from part one, this part of the project focuses on framing the formation through construction and framing apertures, views, and openings. For this project, I began with analyzing certain qualities from part one and coming up with a system of information to develop the final the framing.
Finishing: Part three of the project progresses from filling, framing to finishing. Unlike the prior two parts, finishing connotes a primary surface through which architecture is experienced, measured, and read. The objective of part three is to construct an interior surface with represented materiality. The volumetric properties of Part One and spatial properties of Part Two are collapsed into the flatness of surface and the drawing of material.
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TRI - FORCE Pasadena City College Arch 14 - Materials Completed 2013 Fall - Academic Project Intructor: Casey Hughes
MIDDLE OF RIVET CASING
Project Description The main goal of this project is to choose a material and experiment the different limits of the material. A group of 4 students will come together to explore how different materials react in different ways. Students are to experiment the different forces of tension, compression, shear and torsion using the material. Students are to develop a unit using the material. Students are to further develop modules and eventually a system that will stand on its own. The final model must be approximately bigger than 5 feet tall and 5 feet wide.
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FRONT OF RIVET CASING HOLE PUNCHED AT 1/8’’
Work Divided: Drawings done by Yuna Kim, Laser cutting done by Nicholas Guarna, Physical Model built together.
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The Bent Bar UCLA Architecture Studio 122 Completed 2016 Fall - Academic Project Intructor: Katy Barkan
Project Description The theme of this project is “portmanteau” and the main goal of this project is to design a theater school composed of a performance space and dormitories for an intensive performance art conservatory while keeping in mind the exploration of the part - to - whole. By approaching different strategies towards “oneness” and “twoness”, the project hopes to design a school which expresses the “portmanteau” . This project starts off by aligning all the programs into a compact linear bar. The programs are ogranized from public to private (theater to dorms). In order to fit into the given constraint, the linear bar is forcefully bent, creating cracks which become the vertical circulations within the building. These cracks are also the moment in which the building doesn’t follow an orthogonal language. These two moments are the “highlight” of the buildilng, where on the contrary, the other moments might seem relatively dull. This is expressed through program as well as facade. Although the project suggests a linear motion in plan, its’ section suggests a more diverse movement. This is also expressed through the “un-closed” loop of the building itself.
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The Gap PCC Arch 20B - Design Studio II Completed 2014 Spring - Academic Project Intructor: Coleman Griffith
Static to Dynamic Diagram
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1) Diaphanous City
The “GAP” = CORE Juncture b/w New and Old
One Building Partition: Enclosure
Project Description The project is a proposal of the future city of Homs, Syria. The goal of the project is to design a city that can mantain the religious and economic diverisity by re-populating the specific site for this project. By designing prefabricated residential units, a commercial bazar known as the “souq”, an elementary school and a mental health facility, we hope to create a new porous neighborhood within a neighborhood that will attempt to re-estabilsh diversity wihtin it’s city.
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Articulation: Space b/w Old and New
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Souq Open 8AM - 6PM
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The location for this project is very specific. It is a certain block between Hemidiyeh blvd and Maryzaka street which is in the city of Homs. The city of Homs is one of the largest cities in Syria until it was recently under seige and under a civil war. For the past 2 years, the people and city has been destroyed and we hope to rebuild a new city within this site by not destroying the old, but by creating the “new normal” using both the old buildings and the new buildings.
Articulation: Specific NEW PUBLIC moment
Partition: Encloses public and private space Juncture point
Souq Closed 6PM - 7AM
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For my project, I wanted to create a specific audience who are the women refugees from the war. Before the war, the women were very dependent to their husbands, and they were conservative people who usually stayed at home. However, during the war, the women were forced to become independent as they had to take on the role of the father’s who were at war. This created a new identity for the women in which they became independent people who still had their nurturing qualities. Thus, I hoped that after the war, the mother’s would become the core of the family providing both nurturing and safety over the city. The dynamic city also moves to represent this identity of the women as it opens up during the day to “nurture” the city and closes during the night to create safety.
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Stretched Pod = 144 sq ft ~ 432 sq ft For 4 ~10 People
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1) Bridge Crane that pulls Pods from Bus to Scaffolding system
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