DAVID KWON misterkwon.com
3730 25th street - apt 2 san francisco ca 94110 920 675 9660 misterkwon@gmail.com
education 2007 - 2010
Columbia University | new york ny
m.arch
2002 - 2006
New York University | new york ny
b.arts
professional 2012 - current
Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP | san francisco ca architectural professional
75 Howard | san francisco ca + Guided residential tower project through EIR, while leading conceptual design Samsung Campus | san jose ca + Lead conceptual design, while producing and coordinating an animation for the competition Confidential Office Tower | confidential + Lead competition design for new headquarters building for finanical services company Moscone Convention Center Expansion | san francisco ca + Designed significant portions of the project and developed prominent curtain wall details
2011 - 2012
MISTERKWON.com | san francisco ca
design consultant
imaCAN Street Art Mobile App| los angeles ca + Lead design and user interface mock-ups for local LA street art curation mobile app Titanic’s End Art Car | black rock city nv + Designed and lead construction of art car from concept to fabrication GANGI Album Design | los angeles ca + Designed and produced album art for local LA musician GANGI
2010 - 2012
Gensler | san francisco ca architectural designer
PNC Headquarters | pittsburgh pa + Designed and coordinated the main atrium curtain wall and generated presentation drawings Four Season Mumbai | mumbai india + Designed and developed main amenities level program of mixed-used tower Delta Campus | milpitas ca + Designed and developed portion of project that incorporated large atrium as a workplace element
skills adobe: photoshop, illustrator, indesign, after effects, premier, dreamweaver, flash
autodesk: autocad, robot, 3dsmax, maya, revit; rhinoceros; catia, solidworks; mastercam html, css, js; 3d printing, cnc-milling
SITU STUDIO 2010 designer/fabricator
GENSLER 2010 - 2012 designer
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2007 - 2010 m.arch
ATELIER 64
SOM
2009 - 2010 designer/fabricator
2012 - current designer
GTECTS 2008 intern
MISTERKWON 2011 - current designer
2015
2010
2006
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 2002 - 2006 b.arts
GRAPHIC VIDEO FABRICATION
EDUCATION WORK
SKETCH MODEL* PARAMETRIC
SOLIDWORKS CATIA 3DS MAX MAYA AUTOCAD RHINOCEROS AFTER EFFECTS INDESIGN PHOTOSHOP ILLUSTRATOR
2002
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MOSCONE CONVENTION CENTER EXPANSION IMACAN PLAZA AT PNC PLACE TITANIC’S END SAMSUNG CAMPUS 75 HOWARD ONE HUDSON BOULEVARD
MOSCONE CONVENTION
CENTER EXPANSION
01
The
Moscone
Expansion
project is an extraordinary effort by the City, the San Francisco Tourism Improvement
District
Management
Corporation, and hotel industry to expand existing convention center space. While it is one of the most succesful convention centers in the United States, Moscone Center is operating at capacity and is losing business to competing markets with more space to offer. This project will add more contiguous exhibiton space to Moscone Center, allowing it to remain competitive on a national scale. The expansion will add over 305,000 square feet of functional area, including new exhibition space, meeting room, prefunction space, ballroom space, and support areas.
EXISTING
MISSION YBCA FORUM
METREON
YBCA THEATER
ABOVE GRADE EXPANSION
THIRD
FOURTH
HOWARD CAROUSEL
CCM ESPLANADE BALLROOM
SCOPE OF PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS ICE RINK
EXISTING
PROPOSED
MISSION YBCA FORUM
METREON
YBCA THEATER
THIRD
FOURTH
HOWARD CAROUSEL
CCM ESPLANADE BALLROOM
ICE RINK
PROPOSED SITE PLAN
GROUND LEVEL
YBCA THEATER
THIRD
LAN
ETREON LOBBY PUBLIC ART
WARD HARING
VISITOR INFO LOBBY
MTG RM
RETAIL
MTG RM
PASEO PUBLIC ART
Net Zero Water: 5,500,000+ gallons of ground and rainwater captured annually (equivalent to 8.5 olympic sized swimming pools) and reused for the Moscone Expansion’s toilet flushing and irrigation, as well as exported for San Francisco street cleaning and irrigation of Yerba Buena Gardens and fountains including the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Fountain.
Ultra-tuned Mechanical HVAC system calibrated to Moscone’s on/off cycle of scheduled calendar events provides 100% fresh air for most of the year and enables a whole building energy savings of 30% to 40% below a convention center built to national code standards.
MEZZANINE LEVEL E LEVEL PLAN
THIRD
YBCA THEATER
TREON
WARD
L
CCM
PREFUNCTION
CAFE
ESPLANADE BALLROOM
Largest PV roof array in San Francisco (600+ kW) over an occupied space.
SF PUC provides the building with zero emissions electricity.
Daylight harvesting in above ground spaces improves visitor’s connection to the environment and reduces lighting energy.
N MLK MEMORIAL SISTER CITIES GARDEN
YBCA THEATER
THIRD
SECOND LEVEL
N
CM
PUBLIC ART
PARK BRIDGE PUBLIC ART
RD
TERRACE
PREFUNCTION
BALLROOM
MLK MEMORIAL SISTER CITIES GARDEN
YBCA THEATER
THIRD
THIRD LEVEL
N
RD
CM
PREFUNCTION
MTG RM
TERRACE
MTG RM
I M A C A N
02
IMACAN is a dynamic location-based
mobile application available for Android. The application’s main purpose is for users to discover and explore street art in their neighborhood. The robust database of art is geotagged with the location of the pieces and includes metadata that provides information about the artist’s oeuvre and current projects. IMACAN was conceived as a subsidiary project to Site Unseen, LLC founded by myself, Alfred Chung and Dru Eldridge to explore travel-based applications. As lead designer, I created the graphics, wrote the copy and helped shape the brand and identity of the product.
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Tower at PNC Plaza will become the
new headquarters for the sixth largest bank in North America. Currently, PNC holds the largest portfolio for LEED buildings in North America and continues to extend beyond the current trend to attain net zero buildings. These ambitions are embodied in the this building, which uses passive cooling and natural ventilation. A large solar chimney at the top helps to circulate the air through the mechanical system and the building’s skin is an efficient double wall that creates a thermal buffer to help mitigate the harsh Pittsburgh climate. The atrium that runs the length of the west wall is a large porch that provides an outdoor environment while keeping the precipitation out. With all these systems the new headquarters will be a benchmark for sustainability.
SOLAR CHIMNEY STACK EFFECT DRAWS FRESH AIR UP AND EXHAUSTS THROUGH TOP OF TOWER
FRESH AIR DRAWN THROUGH TO CORE
A ROADMAP TO ‘ZERO’
PASSIV E
TYPICAL HIGHRISE TOWER BREAK TOWER UP INTO VERTICAL STACK OF SMALLER COMMUNITIES INTRODUCE GRADIENT OF THERMAL ZONES AND BUFFER WEST FACADE
REDUCE TYPICAL LEASE SPAN AND ORIENT SOUTH FACADE TO OPTIMAL SOLAR ORIENTATION TO MAXIMIZE DAYLIGHTING OPPORTUNITIES
DOUBLE-SKIN FACADE PROVIDES ADDED THERMAL BUFFER AND ALLOWS EXTERIOR WALL TO BREATH
E STRA TEGIES
L
HE SHAPE TOP OF TOWER TO OPTIMIZE SOLAR CHIMNEY AND PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY
N
N
40 km/ h
40 km/ h
30 km/ h
30 km/ h
20 km/ h
20 km/ h
10 km/ h
10 km/ h
WHAT IF A BUILDING COULD BREATH? | AIA SAN FRANCISCO
WALL TYPE 1 DOUBLE SKIN FACADE N
N
40 km/ h
40 km/ h
30 km/ h
30 km/ h
20 km/ h
20 km/ h
10 km/ h
10 km/ h
AN ANALYSIS OF WIND PATTERNS THROUGHOU
NATURAL VENTILATION IS DIRECTIONS. hrs 83+ 74 66 58 49 41 33 24 16 <8
N
N
40 km/ h
40 km/ h
30 km/ h
30 km/ h
20 km/ h
20 km/ h
10 km/ h
10 km/ h
hrs 83+ 74 66
WHAT IF A BUILDING COULD BREATH? | AIA SAN FRANCISCO
WALL TYPE 1 DOUBLE SKIN FACADE
UT THE YEAR SHOWS THAT
POSSIBLE IN ALL
58 49 41 33 24 16 <8
ACTIVE MODE
ADE
OPTIMIZED FOR DAYLIGHT
MANUALLY OPERATED DOORS SLIDE OPEN
FRESH AIR
PA SS I V E M O D E
ADE
PASSIVE HEATING DOUBLE SKIN
INSULATING BUFFER
WHAT IF A WHAT BUILDING IF A BUILDING COULD BREATH? COULD BREATH? | AIA SAN |FRANCISCO AIA SAN FRANCISCO
DESIGNING DESIGNING FROM FROM INSIDE INSIDE OUT OUT TOWER TOWER PLANS PLANS
THE TOWER AT PNC PLAZA
AT R I U M L E V E L
THE TOWER AT PNC PLAZA
TYPICAL LEVEL
T I TA N I C â&#x20AC;&#x2122; S E N D
04
Every year tens of thousands of
individuals make the voyage to Black Rock City, NV to embrace art, invention and self reflection. In 2014, Justin Kan and I decided to build an art car to share our vision with the visitors and to create a sensorial experience for all that participated. The concept of the car was to formally create an iceberg, that would be visible during the day and night. To be visible at night we included 10,000 leds behind 300+ unique polycarbonate panels that would modulate in color and rhythm. I designed the entire project and produced the drawings, while coordinating the various volunteers that helped make the project possible.
S A M S U N G C A M P U S
05
This project was a competition to
design a new campus for Samsung in South Bay. The proposed building would house engineers and facilitate research for new mobile technologies. The main objective was to create a large floor plate that would foster collaborative interactions, but maintain low sight lines respecting the surrounding buildings. San Jose is notorious for having large asphalt parking lots due to commuters driving to and from work. We mitigated this unsightly appearance by burying the parking underneath the building. The architecture hopes to promote innovation through intimate spaces that allow for focused work, while expanding to larger spaces that allow collaboration and socialization.
LANDLORD - TENANT OWNERSHIP
CO R P O R AT E O W N E R S H I P
R E S T R I C T E D CO L L A B O R AT I O N
I N C R E A S E D CO L L A B O R AT I O N
75 HOWARD
06
75 Howard is a residential tower
located on the San Francisco waterfront. This prime location offers incredible views of the bay and an opportunity to convert a poorly used plaza into a pedestrian-friendly sculpture garden buffering the Embarcadero roadway. The projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inspiration comes from the collapse of the Embarcadero highway after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The earthquake left much the of the city devastated but fell the Embarcadero highway offering the opportunity to reconnect the city to its waterfront. 75 Howard proposes to be the center to the Embarcadero waterfront connecting the new Warriors stadium and the Ferry Building to the north.
5MIN
STEUART STREET
SPEAR STREET
MISSION STREET
BEALE STREET
FREMONT STREET
1ST STREET
2ND STREET
MARKET STREET
MAIN STREET
10MIN
THE EM BARCAD ERO
including BART, Muni, and Ferries FERRY TERMINAL
2.5MIN TRANSBAY TERMINAL (FUTURE)
HOWARD STREET
TRANSBAY PARK (FUTURE) FOLSOM STREET
HARRISON STREET
BAY BRIDGE
BRYANT STREET
PROPOSED SF ARENA
CABLE CAR MUNI METRO HISTORIC STREET CAR BUS BART FERRY
TRANSIT ACCESSIBILIT
Within minutes of amenities of all types
5MIN
STEUART STREET
SPEAR STREET
MISSION STREET
BEALE STREET
FREMONT STREET
1ST STREET
2ND STREET
MARKET STREET
MAIN STREET
10MIN
THE EM BARCAD ERO
JUSTIN HERMAN PLAZA
FERRY TERMINAL
2.5MIN TRANSBAY TERMINAL (FUTURE)
HOWARD STREET
TRANSBAY PARK (FUTURE) RINCON PARK
FOLSOM STREET
HARRISON STREET BAY BRIDGE
RESTAURANT, CAFÉ, DELI SHOPPING / OTHERS BANK
BRYANT STREET
PROPOSED SF ARENA
AMENITIES AND OPEN SPACES
TOWER MASSING & HEIGHT
T.O. UPPER ROOF SCREEN 356’-0”
T.O. PENTHOUSE 348’-0” T.O LAST FULL FLOOR 336’-0” LAST FULLY ENCLOSED FLOOR 324’-0”
12,000 GSF @ TOWER FLOOR
T.O. PODIUM 82’-0”
17,700 GSF @ PODIUM FLOOR
TOWER MASSING AND HEIGHTS
LOOKING TOWARDS EXISTING PARKING GARAGE FROM ACROSS HOWARD
TOWER LEVEL
TOWER LEVELS RESIDENTIAL VARIETY
2 BR 1,160 SF
1 BR 1,000 SF
2 BR 1,530 SF
2 BR 1,530 SF
2 BR 1,320 SF
PODIUM
3 BR 1,930 SF
STUDIO 600 SF
FAMILY FRIENDLY UNITS LEVEL BEST IN MARKET ROOM WIDTHS
TYPICAL TOWER LEVEL PLAN
2 BR 1,770 SF
1 BR 1,020 SF
1 BR 980 SF
2 BR 1,800 SF
2 BR+ 1,800 SF
2 BR 1,940 SF
1 BR 1,110 SF
1 BR 1,190 SF
2 BR+ 2,110 SF
PODIUM LEVEL PLAN
ONE HUDSON BOULEVARD
07
This confidential project was a
competition to house the new headquarters of a global bank. The bank had many programmatic needs, which included typical office floor plates, executive offices, but also trading floors. Trading floors offer unique problems, both structural and programmatic, simultaneously wanting a long column free space and large floor plates. To accommodate all the needs of the client a complex vertical transportation system was designed requiring multiple lobbies at the ground level, podium and tower. The building also offers unique meeting rooms spaces that project from the podium levels providing extraordinary views of the city during client presentations.
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VIEw FROm 34TH STREET
SITE PLAN
MID-RISE LEVEL
45'-0" 45'-0"
45'-0" 45'-0"
45'-0" 45'-0"
45'-0" 45'-0"
TYPICAL TYPICAL mID mID RISE RISE LEVEL LEVEL PLAN PLAN 28,000 GSF GSF 28,000
33,862 RSF (LUF 1.33) H I G H R I33,862 S E RSF L (LUF E V1.33) EL 25,460 USF (91% EFF) 25,460 USF (91% EFF)
45'-0" 45'-0"
45'-0" 45'-0"
45'-0" 45'-0"
45'-0" 45'-0"
TYPICAL TYPICAL HIGH HIGH RISE RISE LEVEL LEVEL PLAN PLAN 28,000 28,000 34,766 34,766 26,140 26,140
GSF GSF RSF RSF (LUF (LUF 1.33) 1.33) USF (93% (93% EFF) EFF) USF