OH KEUN KWON Selected works 2005 2012
Arctitecture works / Art works
Architecture Works
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2012 SPRING SEMESTER PROJECT / JAN.2012 - APR.2012 CRITIC / Prof. Susan conger-Austin
Personal Project
The Memory Steps Library / Community Center
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA
2012 Schiff Foundation Fellowship Finalist
1. Identity
2. Relationship
3. Community
The first principle is how design can provide the place with identity. The design should express the local character, which in turn, would help the locality’s revitalization. Also, it is important to consider how the design might become the icon in this area.
The important point is how this project can weave the existing market area to the south with the numerous existing bookstores to the north. If the design is focused only on its own character, the purpose of regeneration doesn’t work. So, the design should relate with both the existing stores and the open-air market.
The residents who live nearby do not recognize the alley. This means that they know the alley but don’t visit frequently. So, the design must consider the connection with the residents. How to provide public space to re-active this area is especially imporant. Once the community recognizes the value of the alley revitalization can begin.
Bosudong Bookstore Alley Story Wall Stair
Project Site
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Site Analysis
Residential Area
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Exsiting Site Residence
Bookstore Alley Market
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Identity / Character
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Community Relationship Residence
Bookstore Alley Market
Bookstore Alley step 4
Market Area
Link
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Residence
Story Wall Stair Bookstore
1. Urban Axis
2. Activity Access
3. Green Axis
4. Blue Axis
Bookstore Alley Market
The alley is full of books so it is named Bosudong Bookstore Alley. In other words, it is a paradise for Book Lovers. It embodies the memory of the past times when people sold their old books to buy dinner. With patience, one can find rare old books - just like a treasure hunter. New books are also sold here at amazingly low prices. Open pages are filled with good memories in this bookstore alley, where the old and the new, co-exist.
Site Character : Story Wall Stair Residential Area
BOSU Bookstore Alley
Site Problem
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2.Accumulate Books
3.No More Space to store
Site Solution 1.Deposit Steps
2.Reading Steps
Book
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“The Memory Steps�
Book
By collectiong books, this step has its new story and memory
With books, people sitting the place retrospect their memory and make their new story.
Mass Process step 1 Place Mass
step 2 Reflect the Site Character
step 3 New Character
This site is the intersection between two axes. One being the north-south : residence area - market area. The other being the east - west : the bookstore alley.
The story wall stair has a unique character on this site. By mimicing it into the mass, the building has a new one.
Imagine this building as a big furniture on this site such a bookcase. This is for everyone ; visitors, merchants, and residents. So by using the facility, there is new hope that is reflected by the old story.
The site has a distinctive character with the story wall stair. On the walls of the homes that abut the stair, painted stories of hope and coexistence inspire the people who live and work here. This is the old story. Old books have many stories and memories, too. Because these painted stories are of the most important and unique characteristics within this area, the project reflects this. The project becomes an interior stair, providing the people with community space to create their new stories. The project consists of several types of both indoor and outdoor storytelling areas. By making possible a place for new stories, homage and respect are paid to the traditions and new history begins.
Floor Plan
Section Diagram
3rd Floor
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: From the main entrance, there is an indoor story telling area like auditorium. In the space, sometimes, people share their new stories.
1.Story telling area 2.Reception 3.Reading step 4.Digital media board 5.Office 6.Outdoor story telling area 7.Pocket park
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Memory Steps
Story Wall Stair
2.Digital Media Board
3.Bookstore Alley / Story Wall Stair
4. Story Telling Area / 2nd Entrance
: On the outside of the building, there is a digital media board to show new stories. It shows various stories. With outdoor story telling area, people share their stories.
: This is the point where one crosses the 3 characteristics : Bookstore alley, Story wall stair, and the Memory Steps.
: With one of the old stories, there is narrow pathway reflecting the bookstore alley into the 2nd Entry. This represents the relationship between old and new one.
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2011 FALL SEMESTER PROJECT / AUG.2011 - DEC.2011 CRITIC / Prof. Martin Felsen
Personal Project
Cal-Sag Holistic
Intermodal Terminal Lake Calumet, Chicago IL
Site Concept step 1
step 2
step 3
Existing Site
DAM
Position
The site is seperated to 3 ares. There are bridges for transfortation.
To connect both sides, located on DAM, also working for Ecological barrier and creating community space.
In order to get reasonable space for Intermodal terminal, push and pull the DAM.
Lake Michigan Areas of Concern Grand Calumet / Affected : JAN.17.1900 The industrialization of Gray. Indiana causes about 1 milion gallons of polluted water to be expelled into Lake Michigan per day via the Indiana Harbor and ship canal. Today 90% of the rivers flow originated as municipal and industrial effluent.
step 4
In 1899, the Chicago River was reversed in a herculean act of design and engineering. This reversal connected the Chicago River through a series of canals and channels to the Mississippi River enabling Chicagoans to flush their waste down to the Gulf of Mexico. The legacy of that decision is that the Mississippi, Illinois and Chicago Rivers have become prime pathways for invasive species. Specifically, Asian Carp are swimming their way up the rivers toward the Lake Michigan shoreline. If the carp are allowed to enter Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes ecosystem and the seven billion dollar fishing industry. So, Chicago is determining ways to reconstruct the barrier(once natrual) between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi basins that reversing the Chicago River destroyed so long ago.
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step 6
Volume
Pedestrian Circulation
Program Mass
One is the signal tower. The other is vertical circulation tower with community tower with multipurpose rooms.
By using two towers, make a circulation route in the place.
Located the fitness center between two towers, also make the connection between them.
Illinois Waterways Ecological separation is a term that means no movement or transfer of organisms between two basins. When spoken in the context of the Mississippi and Great Lakes’ basin, which are connected by manmade canals, the intent of the term ecological separation is meant to convey that no aquatic organisms should pass between these two basins via the Chicago Area Waterway System, including the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, the Des Plaines River, and the Illinois and Michigan Canal or any other connecting water body or overland transport mechanism. Ecological separation does not nessarily mean the stopping of shipping or recreational traffic between the two basins, lock closure, or more frequent or more severe flooding.
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Lake Michigan
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hoffman dam 294
Flood barrier zone
pump house
project site
water treatment plant electric barrier system bubble curtain & strobes
o’brian lock &dam
dam and lock system electric barrier system
approximate water basin divide
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man-made water way
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natural water way
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lockport lock & dam
proposed flood barrier - 3’ - 8’ concrete & metal screening to be completed fall 2010
brandon rd. lock & dam
completed floor barrier 3’ concrete & metal screeing asian carp DNA found 80
dresden lock & dam
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kankakee river
130 st. Main
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Intermodal Terminal Site Plan
The Intermodal al terminal covers 250 acres. The Intermodal termi e nal includes 4-lane ga gat g aee entran ance and 8600 an u containers / traile unit aililer yard at full built-ou aile -out -ou ou . ou out This facility provides the e capac a ity nece ece ece cessary to im cessary im rove the e imp eff icie eff i nt ic interchange of shipments to o and a d fro from rom om barge and a rail ail con cconn co o ecti e ons, and expedite the operations of of over v 6 trains and d 750 75 50 5 0 containers / trailers daily.
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Buildings / Facilities
vehicle road
railroad
Activity / Community
container area
crane area
Landfill area
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DAM Site Plan
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Floor Plan 4th Floor Plan
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1.Community Tower 2.Exhibition Area 3.Office Tower
3rd Floor Plan
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1.Lobby 2.Basketball Court 3.Climing Wall 4.Locker Room 5.Office 6.Squash Court 7.Mechanical Room 8. Office Tower
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1st Floor Plan
Rendering View
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130 st.
Exhibition Area
Water Plaza Community Tower
Rendering View
Exhibition Area
Water Plaza Fitness Center
Aquatic Center
Exploded View Main Elements Tower There are 2 towers for Axis. One is the circulation tower and multipurpose rooms. The other is signal tower for the Intermodal terminal.
Truss It is supported by two towers and is the Identity for this building to show connection.
Signal Tower
Fitness Volume e There are two volumes for fitness center. One is basketball and weight room. The other is aquatic center.
Route This is a route to connect all volumes inside.
Site The main purpose is Ecological seperation. On the site, there is outdoor playground including running track and afield of reeds.
This project will attempt to invent new cultural and ecological urban architectures to accommodate 21st century environmental security problems. It will explore ways to leverage new infrastructural systems that hybridize architecture and landscape systems. It will integrate proposed systems into existing urban fabrics and communities, generating new architectures and landscapes in the process.
Community Tower
Railroad 130 st.
Exhibition Area
Fitness Center
Running Track
Field of
Reeds
Water Plaza
Signal Tower
Aquatic Center
Lake Calumet
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2011 SPRING SEMESTER PROJECT / JAN.2011 - APR.2011 CRITIC / Prof. Thomas Brock
Personal Project
New York POD Hotel 418 8ave New York, NY
This New York POD Hotel provides people who stay short time with reasonable prices. In the midtown of New York area, the visitors can save their time because it is located next to the Penn Station, that is the main station to connect wherever. So they can enjoy their business with convenient location and prices. Also, they can enjoy its exclusive amenities such as business center, restaurant, bar and fitness center.
New York is an active and dynamic city. From this character, I found my inspiration : Rhythm of Music because I believe music is the best symbol for these qualities. I want to show the New York city image through the rhythmical shape.
Site Condition
View Point
SITE
Concept step 1
step 2
Several boxes are piled up regularly. A building is expressed in the vertical dimension.
step 4
step 3
Seperation the basic functions between public and private areas.
By mixing the functions in a building, it has a chance to communicate each other functions.
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By pushing the box, a building starts to show rhythmical movement like Music.
With various horizontal movements, the building expresses dynamic shape and has own character.
With 4 sides movements, the building is combined by repetition and variation that expresses dynamic NYC.
Energy Strategy Image Reference : Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo, Japan
In this project, the most important point is Pre-Fabricate Units. This is one of the sustainability goal in the porject. Because by fabricating in different area, in construction site, it can save more time for construction and by minimizing transportation distance and fee, it can save money. Also, by considering recycle and susatainable materials for Units, it can get another energy efficiency.
pre - fabrication
transportation
construction
View Point
Typical Unit Plan Floor 12
Every POD floor has a special POD functioned as Small Lounge with vending/ice machine and seating area. This room provides people with an opportunity to hang out with others and take a rest to feel more spcae. 0
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15’ X 40’ with Lounge
Basic Construction Concept
As a structure, the center core is built on site. The site has narrow space to construct and very crowd and complex area. After building the structure tower, POD units that is a prefabricated and has various sizes are lifted by crane and is attached on the wall.
Type of POD Units 10’ X 30’
10’ X 50’
12’ X 30’
12’ X 50’
15’ X 30’
15’ X 50’
with Accessibility Room
Construction Composition
Fitness Center
Business Center / Lounge
Bar / Restaurant
By locating Public spaces between Rooms, they can have an opportunity to communicate each other functions.
In the structure wall, various POD units are attached each floor differently. By doing this, the building has rhythmical shape and it can show the New York characters that are activity and dynamic.
9F Business Center / Lounge Room
18F Fitness Center
The site has interesting points that south and west sides are blocked and there are mega structures on north side ; the Post Office and the Madison Square Garden / Penn Station. I think it is important to get visual connection from them and bring into the Hotel project. By designing breaking volumes in the Hotel project, it can show big rhymical points and the other point that each floor has various size of PODs to show regular rhythmical points.
North view
View Point
View Point
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2011 SUMMER COMPETITION / JUN.2011 - JUL.2011 Team Project : Gilryong Song, Joongkyu Park, Oh Keun Kwon
My works : Mass Design, 3D Modeling, Diagram Drawing
LEED for New Construction Certific
Urban Aquascape
Sustainable Sites
Office facility with public fitness center
14 / 26 points
Pankyo, South Korea
Program
Context Public Space
Superimposition Public Space
Sustainability Public Space
Office 1
Office 1
Office 1
Office 2
Office 2
Office 2
- Open to the park in order to be welcome to people - Make a space between two buildings
- Superimposition to connect public space with office
Green Community Water Space
- Humidification / Dehumidification - Purification
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credit 4.1 Alternative Transportation, Public Transportation Access (6 points) credit 4.2 Alternatvie Transportation, Bicycle Storage & Changing Rooms (1 point) credit 4.3 Alternative Transportation, Low-Emiting & Fuel-Efficient Vehicles (3 points) credit 4.4 Alternatvie Transportation, Parking Capacity (2 points) credit 7.1 Heat Island Effect, Non-Roof (1 point) credit 7.2 Heat Island Effect, Roof (1 point)
Green Space
- Communication between nature and people
The 4th Design Competition for Sustainable Design in Architecture
cation (LEED V3 Green Building Rationg system) Gold 63 points
Water Efficiency credit 1.1 Water Efficient Landscaping (4 points) credit 2 Innovative Wastewater Technologies (2 points) credit 3 Water Use Reduction (4 points)
10 / 10 points
Energy and Atmospher credit 1 Optimize Energy Performance (19 points) credit 2 On-Site Renewable Energy - 13% Renewable Energy (7 points) credit 6 Green Power (2 points)
28 / 35 points
Materials and Resources credit 3.2 Materials Reuse 10% (1 point) credit 4.2 Recycled Content 20% (1 point) credit 5.2 Regional Materials 20% (1 point) credit 6 Rapidly Renewable Materials (1 point)
4 / 14 points
Indoors Environmental Quality credit 4.1-4 Low-Emitting Materials (4 points) credit 6.1Controllability of Systems, Lighting (1 point) credit 6.2 Controllability of Systems, Thermal Comfort (1 point) credti 7.1 Thermal Comfort, Design (1 point)
7 / 15 points
36% Energy Saving 37% Water Reduction 33% On Site Renewable Energy
Concept of Water Feature Swimming Pool
10F 9F 8F 6F~7F 5F
Bamboos are a group of woody perennial evergreen plants in the true grass family. In this case, they would be used as shade along the southern exposure in the building.
4F 3F
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Bamboo Duckweeds evolved to take advantage of the minerals released by decaing organic materials in water.
1F Duckweed
Water-lilies are rooted in soil in bodies of water, with leaves and flowers floating on the water surface. The viability of water lily seeds is exceptionally long, around 2000 years. Water lily Water hyacinth is very efficient in removing vast range of pollutants, from suspended materials, BOD, nutrients, organic matter to heavy metals and pathogens. Water hyacinth
Water Feature e From swimmin wimming pooll’s gray gra water, this path is used us for wa ater p purification with aquatic tic plants. Water featu tu e in edge of th tur he building for Humidificati f on(winter)) and Dehumidific cation(summer) r)) of supply air to offices an and other space pace aces.
Vertical Louver Perforated louvers - Adjustable perforated louvers allow the sun’s heat to be trapped during winter for a warm garden environment. - In summer, louvers are opened for maximum ventilation. Timber shutters - Opened in winter for filtered f light and vertical air movemen oveme t. In summer, shutters trackk sun for full.
W ter Garden Win Double height winter garden - Encourage ges air movement and social intera action between floo ors. Landscape - Bamboo and d aquatic plants provide glare control + movementt for visual pleassure shade, healthy air quality, and water purification - Access to natu ure e enhac a es e productivity by re elievin lie g sstress.
Underfloor Air Distribution System
Vertical Louver Vertical Louver can control the quantity of sun-light
Closed
1.Improved Air Quality Fresh air supplied from the floor improves ventilation as natural convection moves wamer stagnant air foward the ceiling 2.First Cost Neutral Elimination of overead HVAC system duckwork decreases slab-to-slab height
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Louver can be controled by not only centeral computing system but also individually. S
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Louvers have different number of perforation depending on directions.
Passive Strategy
Summer Operation Photovoltaic System
Hybrid Car Reserved Parking Lot
Water purity Rainwater / Gray water storage
Energy Recovery Wheel
Geo-Thermal System
Hot water Tank Heat Pump
Winter Operation Photovoltaic System
Winter Garden Black Water Potable Uses
Water purity Rainwater / Gray water storage
Energy Recovery Wheel
Geo-Thermal System
Hot water Tank Heat Pump
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2005 FALL SEMESTER PROJECT / SEP.2005 - DEC.2005 CRITIC / Prof. Kwansoo Kim
Personal Project
Communicating House Private House
BUNDANG, SOUTH KOREA
Clients are late 50 years old photographer and history teacher couple. They have 3 childern who are college students. Because of complicated society in their life, they do not have enough time to hang out with their children. So they want to have a space that helps them communicate to their children well. They believe that good understanding between family is really important. In addition, by becoming old, they want to feel comfortable with nature and have own space to work.
Site Concept step 1
step 2
Two plates make a program to create for public space.
step 3
By locating a core in center of the public space, the private masses can be located and it provides residents with communication place. step 4
Solid masses for the private rooms on the plate are close to protect residents’ privacy.
Follow the topographic shapes, the house brings surrounding nature.
City of Bundang There are many houses that each architects show their own ideas. The central park is located nearby the site and it provides the site with green axis. It is quiet place and people can access nature and city easily.
Site Analysis The site is located in collective housing area. So there are many high rise and low rise residences. Also, because main road is located near the site, it helps people to access easily and its environment has rich nature.
Blue Axis
Green Axis
Main Access
By using its topography, the house can communicate its environment and it makes various spaces to harmony people and nature.
3rd Floor
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1. sharing room 2. master bedroom
2nd Floor 2
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1. living room 2. bed room 3. multipurpose room 4. kitchen & dining room 5. garden deck 6. roof deck
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Each room has their own level, Through the level, the rooms support indepenent space and it is easy for resident to communicate each other.
1. Living Room 2. Master Room 3. Kitchen & Dining Room 4. Bedroom
2. Master Room
1 Living Room
4. Bedroom
3. Kitchen / Dining Room
Interior Image
1. Living Room
3. Center Core Area
2. Master Bedroom Area
4. Kitchen & Dining Room
Art Works at New York Art Studio in 2008
Brainstorm Paper size 610 x 457 mm
My Obstacle Paper size 420 x 297 mm Pen drawing
Gateway toward My Goal Paper size 596x 457 mm Ink pen drawing
At Sunset Hardboard 507 x 380 mm Pencil drawing
New York CIty Hardboard 507 x 380 mm Pencil drawing
New York CIty Subway Scratch board 355 x 280 mm Knife pen drawing
Heartbeat Color paper
OH KEUN KWON
Selected Works 2005 2012
Mobile : +1 917 482 5819 E-mail : kwonohkeun@gmail.com
Reference :
Susan Conger-Austin Directer of the Masters Project College of Architecture Illinois Institute of Technology 3360 S. State Street Chicago, IL 60616 312.567.3258 T conger@iit.edu