Landscape Architecture Portfolio_Min Kwon

PORTFOLIO Min Kwon minkwon@design.upenn.edu 949.743.4989

art + landscape

diverse scale

01 Jang, JunHa Memorial Park

03 Community Landing

Construct Memorial Wall

Urban Implementation in North Philadelphia

Project Type Location Participated in Project Year

Studio Critic Location

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Private Contract Paju, Korea SD, DD and CD completed in 2013

: Penn Design 2013 Fall : Chistopher Marcinkoski : Philadelphia, PA

02 Time Park

04 Revitalize Navajo Tradition

Art and Landscape in Pujiang Suburban Park

Ancient, Historic and Contemporary Use of Dine Lands

Studio Critic Location

Studio Critic

: Penn Design 2014 Fall : Valerio Morabito : Shanghai, ChinaMe di tatui

: Penn Design 2015 Spring : Tony Akins, Laurie Olin Gavin Riggall, Abdallah Tabet Location : Crownpoint, NM

05 Pacific Connection Novel Energy in California Studio Critic Location

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: Penn Design 2014 Spring : Nicholas Pevzner : California ,US

realized project

competition works

06 GB Provincial Gov. New Office

09 Dongtan Newtown District-2

icipated in : Full Turn-ket Area / Budget : Andong, Korea Project Year : SD, DD and CD : 60acres / 9million USD : 2010~2015

Location : Dongtan, Korea

07 Jeju Healthcare Private Condo.

Project Type Location Participated in Area / Budget Project Year

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Private Contract Jeju Island, Korea DD and CD 7.5 acre / 4.6million USD completed in 2014

08 National Transportation Rehabilitation Hospital Project Type Location Participated in Area / Budget Project Year

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Full Turn-key Yangpyeong, Korea DD and CD 23 acres / 2.7million USD completed in 2014

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01. Jang, Junha Memorial Park

Concept Sketch

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Memorial Wall, Paju, Korea c Kim, Yi-Kyoung

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Memorial Wall, Paju, Korea c Kim, Yi-Kyoung

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02 . Time Park

The objective of this studio, with a collaboration with ‘Shanghai Landscape Design Institute’, was producing [IDEAS]. By experimenting sequential idea mapping drawing, not only what to represent and design but also how to represent [IDEAS] became more important.

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Our surrounding is an inconstant art. All living and non-living creatures have their own expression with various colors, fragments, shapes and gestures. Nature carries energy from here to there as diverse forms. Plants and animals bloom and dormant in response to seasons. Cities rise and fall as time goes by. Among all of these, we care more about what's around us, things that we have an immediate awareness; lands where we live on. We have abilities to access everywhere on the planet. We already discovered all the places where people can form a society. Then, what is our immediate future and next generation we should think about? And in this diverse and specialized world, what is our job as landscape architects?

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It is easier to write on empty paper than well edit it. Same thing happens in places where we occupy the land. We need to care about the places more precisely where we built with less concerns.

This is very challengeable idea. We are not talking about major cities in the world. Though some neighborhoods have been developed with less concern, they are still in better situations than marginal regions because they are being taken care by world's most intelligent. What we should more care about is the place where has chance to lose their indigenousness such as new born town, planned region for redevelopment and abandoned by economic siftings or speculation.

If architects job is not just building an object but creating a social object, landscape designers job is also to provide very limited implementation for social beauty. Social beauty is based on the indigenousness of the place. It is about what's already on the land, such as man-made structures, parks, natural habitats, and most importantly, their own life cycle.

The social beauty has to be discovered from its indigenous life.

As it is already mentioned, our surrounding is constantly changing and everything has its own aesthetic. Since our villages, towns and cities form certain society, their indigenous aesthetic needs to be grow with their society. Jens Jensen said in his book 'Sifting' that "Art grows out of native soil. It cannot be imported from foreign shores and be our own". In certain way, the expression of 'Social beauty' recognizes the limit of human's capability. We can imitate, mimic or copy natural land art but none of them are real. Human do not have abilities to draw original land art, it could only be done by nature.

Thus, in order to establish social beauty, we should rather take into consideration of people's activities than endeavoring in forming natural landscape.

Paradoxically, considering more toward human being, not individual person or group, will give us more naturally healthy landscape.

Physical landscape intervention should be very limited. People historically wanted to bring nature in front of them as various forms of garden and parks. Now this idea needs to be reversed. We are approaching to the landscape and discovering what we have around us. We share our landscape, not possess them. We need to stop thinking of going fastest and the most efficient way to get one point to another. We are living in the society of maximum speed. We need to go slow and we can detour so that we get to know who lives next to us and what's around us.

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Gate Waterfall

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Pool

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03. Community Landing The project began with exploring diverse scale works and interventions. After researching about the site with different lenses ; economic, ecology and commutnity, project had been intentionally pursued in small scale by applicant so that individual could understand human scale design strategy.

GALLERY

PERFORMANCE

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New development of +300 Housing Units in 2 years

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Operation III

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Operation I

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event

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Performance Platform

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Community Nursery

augmentable elements

street marking for spatial and strategy notification

providing platform

sliding deck light pole container structure spatial marking movable benches removable deck

Community Library & Cafe

Transformable Plaza

Food Truck Zone

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04. Revitalize Navajo Tradition High School

Outdoor Learning & Activity spaces High School

Food Truck Plaza

Basketball Court

Baseball Field

+LP

Rug Process I

+LP Volleyball Court

Dine Plaza

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Basketball Court

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Watertower Plaza

Playground

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Orchard

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Weekend Market

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Sacred Garden 7030

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Site Plan, Crownpoint, NM

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Lowpoint Garden

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Community Center (see drawings : 01-A, 04-C)

Building Layouts Proposed Buildings Existing Buildings

Infomation, Learning, Training Center (see drawings : 02-D, 04-D)

Housing Detail and the space in between them (see drawings : 03-A,B,C)

Pedestrian Circulation

Rocky Slope Trail (see drawing : 04-C)

Pedestrian Circulation Primary

Vehicular Circulation Existing Main Road Primary Secondary

Amphithaeater

Rug Process II

Ground Surfacing Programs Cultivated Area

Weaving Process II : Vegetal Dye (see drawing : 02-C)

Food Truck Plaza

Sports Complex

Weaving Process I

Diné Plaza

Watertower plaza & Dyeing Vegetation Plantation (see drawing : 01-D)

Children’s Playground (see drawing : 04-B)

Rug Process III

Topography

EL : 6990

10fr contour line 2ft contour line Major water flow

+ LP

Orchard and Check Dams (see drawing : 04-)

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Navajo Techinical University

Two Axis on the site Education Axis Community Axis

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Vegetable Dyeing Process Lot

Playground

Juniper Tree

Arizona Ash

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Check Dam

Ironwood Tree

Apple Tree

Peach Tree

Pear Tree

Orchard landscape by series of check dams

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Children’s playground with Shading structure

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Section through wool preparation lot and multi-multi family house

Section through public realm and single family houses

Section through community center

05. Pacific Connection The objective of the project is to provide consistent energy supply by one connected-submarine transmission line along the entire California coast line and seeking opportunities of transforming conventional local fishery industries into distribution industry and enhancing seabed marine hibitat which has been damaged by bottom crawl fishery operation.

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Transmission Line Connection Phase OR Eureka

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Phase 1 : Manufacturing Boom

Fort Bregg

Wind Turbine

Fort Bregg

Offshore Base

Manchester Los Angeles

San Diego

Onshore Logistics

NV

San Francisco

Phase 2 : Expansion of Territory

Eureka

CA

Offshore Base

Santa Cruz

Bakers Field

Floating Dock

Los Angeles

San Diego

Coral Habitat

Santa Maria Bakers Field

Phase 3 : Circulate Electricity

Eureka

Efficient Electricity circulation

Tourism

Los Angeles Research

Los Angeles

San Diego

Restoration

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Maintenance Vessel (Offshore Logistic)

Restoring Seabed

Floating Dock

Floating Wind Turbine Rotor Diameter : 120~170m Power Rating : 3~10MW

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Transport Tourists

Control Office Substation Visitor Center Accomodation Science Lab Scuba School

Transport Maintenance Crews

Transport Tourists & Materials Recreational Scuba Diving Range -40m

Scuba Dive

Bio-Argo Machine Cable Maintenance Biorock Frame Maintenance

20km from shoreline (visibility limit)

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AC Current from Wind Turbines

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06. Gyeongbuk Provincial Gov. New Office

During applicant’s professional work experience in an award-winning Seoul based landscape architecture firm, applicant participated in various projects from schematic design through the construction phase, producing design drawings, construction documents, and construction cost estimates.

Project Feasibility Study 2009. 03

Project Order Confirm : Full-Turnkey 2010. 02

Idea Competition 2010. 02

General Plan 2010. 05

Notice of Tender for Turnke and Schematic Design 2010. 10

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Processes of which the applicant was involved in Consortium Won Competition 2011. 02

Design Development & Construction Document 2011. 03

CD 2-track (Documents submitted) Conclusion of Contract Site Break Ground

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Completion in 2014

Model c Heerim Architect Co. Ltd.

Concept Sketches from Schematic Design Phase

Symbolic Axis Concept Sketch

Cultural Axis Concept Sketch 40

Sketches & Ideas from Design Development Phase

Roof-top Garden Sketch

Pocket Garden Sketch Modeling

Detail Drawings from Construction Document Phase

Traditional Wall Detail Drawing 41

07. Jeju Healthcare Private Condo.

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Wind Garden, Jeju Island, Korea c Shin, Yoojin 43

Wind Garden Stairs and Retaining wall c Shin, Yoojin 44

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08. Nat’l Transportation Rehab. Hospital

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09. Dongtan Newtown District-2 Competition

Masterplan Rendering c CA Landscape Design Co.Ltd

Three Theme Landscape Parks along the Chi-Dong Creek

Observatory Deck

Sports Complex Willow Tree Deck

Confluence Park

Aqua Cultural Park

Green Forest Park

outdoor stage

rainwater havest

forest

Multi layered forest

Chi-Dong Creek

confluence deck

Green Band

Stream Path

Chi-Dong Creek

path creek

creek meadow

bridge

Forest Wetland Plaza

Creek

green band

Multi layered forest

play field

forest

Forest

Play field

Path & Green Band Shore Vegetation

Bridge

Observatory Deck

Park

Creek + Confluence

Neighborhood Park Sitwall Deck

Meadow

Stepping Stone

Pipe

Park Wetland

Chi-Dong Creek Bridge

Play Field Aqua Field

Sports Complex Outdoor Stage

Stand

Geothermal

Info.

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-10°C

ENERGY COLLECTION

Trosphere

Mesosphere

AFTER FALLEN ERA

city code# R2DN02

-20°C city code# R2DN02

-30°C

-40°C

-50°C

5km

10km

15km

20km

Drawings + Modelings

System Server

Cooling System

10 km

Knowledge Crystal

Landscape of City code #R2DN02

Life Valley

Digitzed Knowledge

Converting Information

High Elevation Plateau

Converting Information

Liquid Nitrogen Formation

Process of Crystalizing Knowledge

LN2

10 m

landscape representation

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Marker Drawing

Free Hand Drawing 54

Process Sketches

Concept Sketch

hand sketches

Project Plan on Existing Surface

Define Spaces + Surface Division

Create Surfaces and Connect Surfaces

Connected Surfaces

v-ray Rendering

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landform 3D rhino modeling

landform physical modeling