yo o n s a n Selected Architectural Works 2011-2018
CONTENTS
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Surreal Dimension: City of Water Subject Type Year Location
Cinematic Architecture Academic 2017 Hwasungsi, Suwon
2
Kan: Occupying the Room Opposite Subject Type Year Location
Modernizing Hanok Individual | Yoon, San + Koo, Minjae 2017 Chungnyangni, Seoul
3
Walkway Albergue Subject Type Year Location
Beyond Green Glamour: Seochon Redevelopment Academic 2012 Seochon, Seoul
5
Covered Panorama Subject Type Year Location
De-Gentrification of Myeong-dong Academic 2016 Myeongdong, Seoul
5
Fincher ( House + Film Lounge ) Subject Type Year Location
Controling Boundaries Academic 2013 Seokgwandong, Seoul
6
Bridge of Wish Lantern Subject Type Year Location
Nodle Island Bridge Academic 2016 Nodle Island, Seoul
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Extra Works
1 S U R R E A L D I M E N S I O N : C I T Y O F WAT E R Issue Goal Type Year Film
Cinematic Architecture Surmounting Practical Limitations of Historical City Academic 2017 Surreal Dimension: City of Water - https://youtu.be/mL3B4zqj1RQ
Abstract
Monumental architectures form and divide the city. On the other hand, it works as a burden in the present time. This kind of restriction fixates our perception of the city. Suwon, once was a city of water, suppresses modern city with fortress and palace standing still around Suwon river. The city lives every day with banal direction marked on its back. How can we overcome this unbreakable image of the city?
I propose a Decalcomanie Square in the center of Suwon, using water as mediation. Water surface, that vibrates in so many ways, changes city's scenery endlessly like a liquid mirror, and this vivid but also pure surface can be created through different depths of water.
Under the reflected landscape of the city, there is a space with various heights carved with the city's personalities. This is a paradoxical reality. Inside Surreal Dimension, a massive cylinder purifies water while moving vertically - responding to city's water usage, library records time, and residency floats inside the trace of time. The Decalcomanie Square reflects not only the city's landscape but also its own characteristics. It makes us question the banal urbanicity and historicity, and creates new perspectives.
Conflict | Suwon City
Solution | Realizing the City Differently
“ The image is a pure creation of mind. It cannot be born from a comparison, but from two realities, more or less distant, brought together. The more the relation between two realities is distant and accurate, the stronger the image will be the more it will possess emotional power and poetic reality. ”
Antiquated City
Water Reflection
Different Perception
When light shines on the surface of the water and its surrounding objects, a copied image of the original object on the water with slightly different shape appears. The vibration of water is what makes the difference. Vibration creates the valley and the peak, which makes us consume collectible distorted light.
-Pierre Reverdy, from Manifesto de Surrealisme
S1
S
S2
S
V - Low B1 Suwon Fortress
Suwon River
Residential Cultural Commercial Main Road
If this controversy is fixated too much that it seems like there is no exit, what can we do to mitigate the depression?
B2
V - Low Object
S
In consequence, this phenomenon lets us see the image in warped shape that constantly changes. As seen aside, what originally was ‘B’ gets perceived as ‘Bn’ through the reflection of light over water surface by various vibrancy.
V - High B3
S
B
Sun
S3
V - Mid
S
Suwon was named after its richness of water. Su and Won each represent Water and Root. Suwon Hwasung, a fortress King Jungjo built around Suwon river in the early 18th century is a cultural asset highly valued today. But ironically, the modern city inside the fortress is having a difficult time from being developed. Government is suppressing the city from evolution, while residents want a prosperity. This conflict has caused many local areas to decline and the city’s policy is biased to cultural tourism. This clash of characters has made Suwon stagnant.
In order to create various images of a city through the reflection of the water surface, a series of different vibrations are required.
S
B V - Mid
B V - High
Vibrancy of Water
What We Realize
Experiment | Correlation Between Water Depth and Vibrancy
Even Force
D: 5cm
D: 10cm
D: 20cm
D: 30cm
D: 40cm
D: 50cm
Manifesto | City’s Lost Identity
The value of the river is no longer important to present Suwon city compared to the past. Can this city be revitalized through the birth element of itself: water? Water is a material in between gas and solid. It has shape but at the same time not restricted to it. So when an object gets reflected by water, we always see it in a different form. If water can reflect the city, it will shape the original city into something slightly different. Like twins, like a mirror, when we look at something critically similar we perceive the original object differently and be aware of it. Maybe we can reuse the city’s lost identity, water, as a poetical tool to rethink about the city.
500
50
Can we use Suwon city’s historical originality to overcome present conflict?
500
300
The Waterscape Cylinder
Decalcomanie Montage Technique Decalcomanie Square
Gwangyo Reservoir
Composition of the City
Decalcomanie Space Vibration Projection
Decalcomanie Amplifying Tool
Rain Water
Water
Workshop
Purification
Extra Sources
Various Landscape
Water Bowl
Decalcomanie City
Water Decalcomanie City Water Purification System
Each cylinder is connected to a certain area of Suwon. A data about an amount of water usage in the certain group of buildings will directly be sent to the cylinder system. The cylinder will slowly rise when the group’s water usage gets larger. Total of 600 cylinders will cover the whole water usage of Suwon. And the random depths of water created by the city’s water usage will create hundreds of different vibrations on the surface. Consequently, the surface will become the water map of Suwon while reflecting the city in million forms.
Construction System Water Ceiling Detail
Water Depth Control
Water from Gwangyo reservoir comes in and gets purified by the cylinder system. This process will support the city’s water supply.
Library
Work shop
Intrinsic City
Split Hard Water Purification System
Small Usage Area
Large Usage Area
City’s Water Usage
Whole Structure
Library
High V
Low V
Distruction
Perfection
Space Composition Water
Definition of Water Vibration
Structural Objet
Definition of Program
Purification
Definition of Water Depth
Decalcomanie Space The deepest space in the second basement floor is a water purification system. This system purifies water from Gwangyo reservoir and other sources. It then sends clean water to various groups of buildings in Suwon. Also, the depths of water above the cylinders change due to the amount of water usage every single group uses.
B1
Another half of the second basement floor is composed of museum and workshop. Local artists and workers will come to the place and have a collaboration and exhibition. They will live in this humongous place’s residency and create a local-centric atmosphere with their work. Also, the deep water ceiling will create a vivid atmosphere to the dark underground space.
The upper level is a library. This library contains books about the history of Suwon’s present and the past also with other historically valuable books and records. Also, the shallow water ceiling will create a calm atmosphere and present the outer landscape in a unique shape.
B2
B1 | Observatory. Library
B2 | Water Purification Room
B2 | Workshop. Museum
Decalcomanie Square Looking at Cultural Area
The Decalcomanie Square is composed of a section with various depths. If people visit and stroll around, they will be faced with continuously changing scenery. Cylinder surface zone in front of the cultural area is the main view, where various vibrations exist. This surface will reflect the old Suwon Palace and shape it into many different looks.
Apart from the cultural area, the city has been divided into two characters. Commercial, and residential. In the path of the development of the city, the clash between these two elements was always an issue. By walking along the path of the square, people will face two different vibrations reflecting both characters.
By creating these reflected images, the project is aiming for the change in people’s perception of the antiquated city. I hope people to no longer split the city or be biased to one side and blinded to other possibilities. I hope this gigantic image of reflection could help in doing so.
Cultural Area
Residential Area
Cultural Area
Commercial Area
Suwon Palace
Looking at Residential Area
Looking at Commercial Area
EW Section
2 K A N : O CCU PY I N G T H E RO O M O P P OSI T E Issue Goal Type Year
Modernizing Hanok Maru-centric Space Composition Individual | Yoon, San + Koo, Minjae 2017
Abstract
It has been sixty years since the Buheung complex had been built in Chungnyangni, Seoul. Some people are still living here, but the architectural physicality has reached its limit. The government is looking for a way to revitalize this area as a part of the cultural redevelopment. But if not treated carefully, it might dismiss the original relationship inside the village. The project proposes a Korean way of dwelling for a single household. I proved that maru is the spatial core in traditional Korean housing through the thesis. Further, it can be said that the relationship opposite is the concept of space composition in traditional Korean housing. The relationship between people through the room opposite, the fence opposite and the street opposite will be the goal for Buheung complex’s redevelopment. The fixated condition of Buheung complex is now expected to be filled with fresh interactions between people with the room opposite and maru. Based on the thesis by San Yoon, A Study on the Spatial Possibility of Utilizing Maru : By Analyzing Spatial Composition of Traditional Hanok and Modern Work Houses
Buheung Complex
Maru-centric Composition in Hanok (Traditional Korean Housing) Ex. Yangdong Seobaek-dang
A Study on the Spatial Possibility of Utilizing Maru - By Analyzing Spatial Composition of Traditional Hanok and Modern Work Houses
Hommage to Traditional Hanok
Mium Shaped House (2004)
Moheon (2009) Room: 6
Maru: 9
Room: 3
Maru: 1
Room: 3
Maru: 1
Room: 4
Maru: 1
Room: 4
Maru: 1
(4) × 1 (3) × 4
(2) × 2 (1) × 4
(3) × 2 (2) × 7
(2) × 1 (1) × 2
(3) × 1
(2) × 1 (1) × 2
(1) × 1
(3) × 1 (1) × 3
(3) × 1
(2) × 1 (1) × 3
(2) × 1
12
24
8
20
4
3
4
1
6
3
5
2
Room: 7
Maru: 5
Room: 7
Maru: 5
Room: 7
Room: 5
Room: 7
Room: 5
Room: 6
Maru: 1
Room: 6
Maru: 1
(3) × 1 (2) × 4 (1) × 2
(4) × 1 (3) × 2 (2) × 2
(2) × 1 (1) × 6
(3) × 1 (2) × 4
(5) × 1 (2) × 4 (1) × 2
(2) × 1 (1) × 4
(2) × 5 (1) × 2
(2) × 1 (1) × 4
(2) × 3 (1) × 3
(4) × 1
(2) × 3 (1) × 3
(3) × 3
14
8
15
6
12
6
9
4
9
3
11 Waheon (2003)
Work Houses with Maru Lee, Hyungnam + Noh, Eunjoo
Maru: 10
Room: 8
Maru: 10
(3) × 2 (2) × 4 (1) × 2
(4) × 2 (3) × 2 (2) × 5
(3) × 1 (2) × 2 (1) × 5
(3) × 2 (2) × 7 (1) × 1
16
25
12
21
Garden Maru, Sujoldang
Room: 7
Maru: 3
Room: 7
Maru: 3
(9) × 1 (2) × 2 (1) × 4
(2) × 1 (1) × 3
(3) × 1 (2) × 2 (1) × 4
(1) × 3
17
4
11
3
Building
Sunuldang (2002)
Yangdong Sujoldang (1616)
Room: 8
27 : 55
Room: 1
Maru: 2
Room: 1
Maru: 2
Room: 6
Maru: 2
Room: 6
Maru: 2
(2) × 1 (1) × 1
(2) × 3 (1) × 3
(1) × 2
3
9
2
(2) × 2
(3) × 2
(1) × 1
(3) × 2
(8) × 1 (2) × 2 (1) × 3
4
6
1
6
15
Room (W) : Maru (B) 61 : 48
In the opposite group, nine subjects were chosen from modern work houses done by architects. Since this study is looking for a proper methodology in designing Korean housing, design-centric architects who can have a social influence on the culture are chosen. The study will analyze their works that contain maru and also advertised over it, and see if those designs managed to use maru properly as a connective space.
Maru: 4
Room: 6
Maru: 4
Room: 8
Maru: 3
Room: 8
Maru: 3
(3) × 1 (2) × 2 (1) × 3
(5) × 1 (4) × 2 (2) × 1
(2) × 2 (1) × 4
(3) × 3 (2) × 1
(7) × 1 (2) × 3 (1) × 4
(3) × 1 (2) × 2
(2) × 3 (1) × 5
(2) × 2 (1) × 1
10
15
8
11
12
24
8
20
Earth House / Byung-soo Cho
Room: 7
Maru: 6
Room: 7
Maru: 6
Room: 4
Room: 3
Room: 4
Room: 3
(3) × 2 (2) × 3 (1) × 2
(4) × 1 (3) × 4 (2) × 1
(2) × 3 (1) × 4
(3) × 1 (2) × 5
(3) × 2 (2) × 1 (1) × 1
(4) × 1 (2) × 2
(3) × 1 (2) × 2 (1) × 1
(2) × 2 (1) × 1
14
18
10
13
9
8
8
5
Geumsan House / Hyung-nam Lee + Eun-joo Noh
Type of Connection
Room: 3
Maru: 3
Room: 3
Maru: 3
(4) × 2 (1) × 1
(4) × 1 (3) × 2
(2) × 2 (1) × 1
(3) × 1 (2) × 2
9
10
5
7
123 Higher Connection 123 Lower Connection
Conclusion
Room: 6
Yangdong Sahodang Main Building (1840)
In order to prove the spatial importance of maru, specific standardized subjects are required. Subjects for this study are traditional Hanoks of Yangdong Village, a designated cultural heritage. The village contains Hanoks from various timeline from the 1400s to 1800s, which gives a credit for the vast variety of traditional Hanoks. In this study, a Hanok per century has been chosen.
Moheon, Toechon House, Waheon, Sunuldang, Subaekdang, Sujoldang (Clockwise), Seung H. Sang
Number of Connection
Geumsan House (2011)
Sujoldang (2009) Plan Sketch, Seung H. Sang
Room (W) : Maru (B)
Traditional Hanok and Modern House
Sejong Culture Center (Um Dukmun, 1978)
Type of Connection
Maru: 9
Yangdong Hyangdan (1580)
Yangdong Gwangajeong (Early 1500s) Yangdong Hyangdan (1580) Yangdong Sujoldang (1616)
Room (W) : Maru (B) 297 : 272
Room (W) : Maru (B) 70 : 69
Buyeo Museum (Kim Sugeun, 1971)
Number of Connection
(3) × 1 (2) × 4 (1) × 1
Yangdong Geunam Main Building (1780)
Modernization of Hanok requires an analysis of the definition of Korean Living, rather than ornaments or materials. In order to do that, we need to find a property from the past that can be generalized in the present and future, which in this study considers as Maru.
Building
Room: 6
13
Yangdong Geunam Main Building (1780)
The cultural question ‘What is Korean?’ has risen in the 1960s and 1970s by the dictatorial government during `88 Seoul Olympics. Many architects have studied traditional Hanok and designed buildings to answer the question. But the controversy on traditionality has risen, backlashing on architects for their uncritical adaptation of traditional Hanok to modern work houses. Many of those were more like a simple hommage, lacking with a detailed research on the difference between modern society and traditional culture.
Type of Connection
Room (W) : Maru (B) 105 : 118
Yangdong Sahodang Main Building (1840)
The purpose of this study is to analyze the importance of using maru as a spatial core for Korean housing. In the past when most people lived in traditional Hanok, the Korean housing, maru was used in various shapes and sizes for numerous purposes. It connected more than two rooms and worked as a buffer between courtyard and room. Basically, every interior circulation happened on maru.
Number of Connection
Connectivity (J-Graph)
Room (W) : Maru (B) 45 : 65
Outline
Building
Subaekdang (1998)
Regional Plans of Traditional Hanok
Area
Yangdong Seobakdang Anchae (1454)
Building
Type of Connection
Work Houses with Maru - Jo, Byungsoo
Earth House (2009)
But since the Space Syntax fits more properly for western architecture than Korean architecture, the J-Graph should be altered. The study will adopt the diagram of J-Graph but will set the courtyard as an entrance and treat every type of maru distinctively even though they are connected. After that, the study will analyze how many types and numbers of spatial connection maru and room are composed of. This analysis will locate the importance of maru in the spatial composition of Hanok.
Number of Connection
Work Houses with Maru - Seung, Hyosang
Sujoldang (1992)
Planar Evolution of Traditional Hanok
Building
Modern Work Houses with Maru
Toecho House (2009)
This study analyzes the spatial connection of room and maru. In order to do this, the project utilizes the J-Graph(Justified Permeability Map), a space mapping method from Space Syntax. J-Graph is a graph used during the early stages of Space Syntax to analyze spatial depth and integration values.
Hanoks in Yangdong Village (1400 - 1800)
Yangdong Seobakdang Anchae (1454)
Analyzing Spatial Importance of Maru with J-Graph
Yangdong Gwangajeong (Early 1500s)
Evolution of Traditional Hanok
T.S. Elliot has stated in his book, “Tradition cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour. The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence. ... which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of the temporal together.” The word ‘timeless’ and ‘temporal’ above can be interpreted as ‘universality’ and ‘particularity’. So the traditionality can be inherited to modern times only when acquiring particularity that can become universal. In order to universalize particularity, it is necessary to abstract the subject. Particularity cannot be utilized variously by itself because it is very specific. The abstraction process of traditional Korean architecture should not contain the adaptation of ornamental elements, because it will only be another replicant. Every side of Hanok should be reinterpreted with abstraction. We should treat it as a space that can be used by people, grasping the core spatiality of Hanok. If this abstraction process can be adapted to modern Korean architecture, the long road of finding endemic architecture will be free from the endless debate for traditionality and fortunately lead to finding the untouched side of Korean architecture. This study is valuable in spotlighting the importance of maru in space composition, proposing a methodology to the construction of Korean housing and modernization of Hanok.
Space Composition of Pyeong and Kan Pyeong | Partition
Traditional Kan Construction
Prefabricated Kan
Kan | Occupation
Rethinking Hanok
Roof
The objective of prefabricated Hanok is to rethink the construction system of traditional Korean housing. Originally Hanok construction is expensive and unpractical because of various ornaments. By focusing into space and simplifying the ornaments, it is possible to provide a distinctive cultural living space for a vast range of people living in one-person-housings.
Beam
How to divide Xm²
How to fill the land
1. Stereobate
One Person Housing Generation Pyeong | Dividing
2. Pillar
3. Beam
4. Kan
Space Type in ‘Kan’
Kan | Merging
Grid Stereobate
Room
Maru
Courtyard The Room Opposite
3000
Opened and Meeting
Space Composition of Housing with Room Opposite
Maru is the essential element in Kan system. It works as a buffer between interior and exterior, a semi-exterior where residents can meet and rest. A middle space also exists in a modern single housing in Korea called One Room, but because of its closed atmosphere, it is treated as an unpleasant space. Maru will solve this problem in the project’s proposal.
Column Maru
Room
Maru
Element
Closed and Avoiding
Function
Original
Housing
Development Unit
Minimum Unit
Room Opposite Unit Stereobate
Bathroom
Courtyard
Side Maru
Fence
Module
Extra Element
Pyeong
Unit
Suggestion for Block Composition
Private
Kan Advanced Module
Proposal
Maru Share
Courtyard, Byway
Room Private
Development Unit
Street Opposite Module
Fence Opposite Module
Information
New Byway
Location | Chungnyangni, Seoul Plottage | 683.35 m² Building Area | 323.69 m² Total Area | 323.69 m² Building Coverage | 47.36 % Floor Area Ratio | 47.36 % Story | 1F Room | 30 per Block Purpose | Dwelling, Community Facility Structure | Prefabricated
Development Unit
Intrinsic Street
1
2
3
5
6
1 4
Module 1. Room 2. Maru 3. Room Opposite 4. Bathroom 5. Side Maru 6. Courtyard
Room
Maru Module
Community Facility 1. Kitchen / Laundry
Room
Courtyard
Side Maru Module
Bathroom
Community Facility
Maru Public Space
Byway
3 WA L K WAY A L B E R G U E Issue Goal Type Year
Beyond Green Glamour: Seochon Redevelopment Architectural Sustainability: Less Movement, Enhanced Experience Academic 2012
Abstract
This project is mainly concerning for a way to give tourists an efficient way of experiencing the authentic culture. The lodging is placed above a walkway that leads to the sharing kitchen. Guests are expected to look closer into the neighboring village by walking along the walkway. Furthermore, they will interact with locals by eating a meal together in the kitchen.
Problems
Approach
Cultural Redevelopment
Unidimensional Travel
Seochon is an area with a strong cultural identity. There are traditional housings spread throughout the village. Because of this unique character, it is getting more crowded with people and the number of tourists is increasing every day. But despite the big attention, the local experience people have is superficial. It needs a new direction for the cultural experience.
The cultural redevelopment of Seochon has a risk of becoming another tourism photo spot. If so, tourists will only earn a photo rather than a valuable experience of the city. The redevelopment plan should be directed towards creating a richer experience in cooperation with local people and space.
Less Movement + Enhanced Experience The main goal of this project is to give a richer experience of the local area during tourists’ stay. By eating food and interacting with locals at the lodging, guests can reduce their time and energy in searching for the authentic experience.
Original
Proposal Tour
Lodging Locals Food
Lodging Food
Locals
Tour
Solutions
Distinctive Walkway
Folded Louver The corridor in the archetype of hotels has dim lights and blocked walls. A folded louver can add an untypical form and a selective connection with the exterior to the corridor design.
A high density of buildings in Seochon can be a hard barrier for tourists to penetrate. A distinctive walkway will guide travelers to walk deeply into Seochon and help to experience the city more closely.
Lost
Recognize
Protected
Connected
Bay Window Each of the rooms has a bay window to amplify the visual experience of the city. Guests can feel like they are inside the scenery by the three sides glass wall.
0%
Sharing Kitchen A sharing kitchen, which came from the idea of the albergue, is in the center of the lodging. Tourists can gather here and share stories with other travelers and locals while eating. The kitchen system is managed by the locals.
Normal Time 50%
90% 150%
Meal Time
Information Site | Seochon, Jongnogu, Seoul Length | 320 m Stories | 2F Facade | Wood Louver Program | Lodging Room | 21 The main focus of this project is to give an authentic local experience to the tourists. By merging food and human experience with lodging itself, tourists can feel more connected to the culture. Traveling various areas might be a valuable experience, but acknowledging one area with a detail is a rare chance which can be more effective and memorable.
View from the Alley
Sharing Kitchen and Courtyard
Hall (Up), Room (Dn)
NW Section
4 c ov e r e d pa n o r a m a Issue Goal Type Year
De-Gentrification of Myeongdong Hidden Nest for City Workers’ Relaxation Academic 2016
Abstract
Who takes care of the humongous consumption being produced with everyday routine inside Seoul's biggest symbol of capitalism, Myeongdong?
Going into the thin gap between fat buildings, there are backspaces and workers using backdoors breathing hard to maintain the system alongside pipes, ducts and outdoor fans. They work 18-hour shift from dawn to midnight. The ecosystem behind buildings is hard for a person to bare.
The project offers a hidden nest for workers in Myeongdong. Backspaces are reconstructed by inserting comforting programs and controlling elements from original back alley inside gaps and voids. This is a second phase for the over-capitalized neighborhood.
Problem | Limited Space for Workers’ Relaxation
Concept | Reconstructing the Back Alley
Back Alley Condition
Solution | In Search for Usable Void Back Alley Analysis Alley 1
Program
Vertical Void Analysis Alley 2
Alley 3
Alley 4
Alley 1
Alley 2
Alley 4
Alley 3
F | Fashion, R | Restoraunt, M | Mart, C | Cosmetic, X | Nothing
Proposal
Backdoor
4699 m²
5146.4 m²
4039 m²
Original
Floating Alley
Hidden Nest
Inside the back alley is divided vertically into two stories with pallions. By placing extra structures on the ground floor, workers can enjoy the qualified relaxation on the upper level.
The rare facade of high stories buildings and unused second floors and roofs of normal buildings are used as a relaxation space. Programs such as public bath, roof farm, residency, and pavilions are proposed.
6168.1 m²
Using Blocked
Usage
Horizontal Void Analysis High
Merged 10.5 m²
0 m²
13.5 m²
66.2 m²
Concept Drawing
Covered Panorama The project focuses on giving the workers of Myeongdong a comforting place to rest. I found that these workers tend to hide from a massive crowd. I wanted to give them space away from main roads, a nest where they can hide into. Inside the space composed of intertwined structures, they will enjoy a proper relaxation. Programs like residency, farm, bath, and other will support their second phase of living in Myeongdong.
Pallion Residency
Air Farm
Little Vacation
Food Dryer
Function Hall
Standardized Steel Frames ETFE Skin for workers’ personal space
Foldable Green House for shifting use in seasons
Pre-fabricated Brick Joint Insertable Bricks for DIY wall construction
Addible Temporary Structure for drying foods
Temporary Structure for locating floating alley and spacing funtional machines
Pallion Residency
Pallion Residency Air Farm
Air Farm
Little Vacation
Food Dryer
Public Bath
Function Hall
5 F I N CH E R ( H OUSE + LOU N GE ) Issue Goal Type Year
Controling Boundaries Film Space for David Fincher Academic 2013
Abstract
A | The Fincher House is mainly focusing on designing a house for a specific client: a film director David Fincher. The concept borrowed his cinematography skills, which is very focused on the scene itself by controlling depth, light, and perspective. Also in respect to his work-a-holic character and a perfective style, the building focuses on itself by blocking surrounding areas and solely utilizing landscape of the South.
B | The Fincher Lounge is mainly concerning to design a public film lounge for locals. The main wall can spin in right angle following to its usage, diversifying the space by circulating between the scenery and the screen. The wall is used for a film screening when it is closed, and for a lounge when it is opened for mountain forest scenery.
Client | David Fincher
Site | Boundaries Scenery
Job | Film director Born | 08. 28. 1928 Height | 184 cm Devut | Alien 3, 1992 Family | Unmarried. No child Character | Perfectionist. Work-a-holic
Forest
“... Fincher is a director-as-designer and like any brilliant designer, he seems to attract the most attention for things don’t work, rather than things that perfectly, seemlessly do...”
Fincher House House
Fincher Lounge
Road F.H.
Location | 25-6, Cheonjangsan St, Dongdaemun, Seoul Floor Area Ratio | 200% Building to Land Ratio | 60% Usage | Private House
Road
Forest
House
Location | 25-5, Cheonjangsan St, Dongdaemun, Seoul Floor Area Ratio | 200% Building to Land Ratio | 86% Usage | Public Lounge
Wall
- John Paulus | Film critic
Process A
Process B
Idea | The Cinematography
Idea | Character X Background
David Fincher presents a distinctive vision that lets us focused thoroughly into the scene. I selected long take scenes from his movies and translated them into a perspective, which will be adjusted to Fincher House’s space composition.
A film’s scene is composed of characters and a background. These two elements get merged to create a scene. It is a completed two dimension. But in a real world, character(people) and background(scenery) is separated in three dimensions. A film’s scene might work as a connection between people and scenery if used properly as a spatial tool.
People
Clips from the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Characters
Scene
Background
Scenery
Perspectives and openings from scenes Clip from the film Social Network
Concept | Hall-Room-Window-Scenery
Concept | Scenery X Scene
The Fincher House is composed of various rooms. Just like the sequence of a film, a hall and a stair sew those spaces together. From the moment of entering the house, David Fincher will experience sequential scenery of rooms.
The Fincher Lounge is composed of three views. A person, a scene, and a scenery. By observing each of three views, visitors can experience two-dimensional to four-dimensional perspective.
Cinema
Shot
Window
Room
Film
Screening
Scenery
Scenery
Lounge 2D
House
3D
Boundary Strategies Fincher House | Blocking & Focusing Forest: Private
Blocking
Scenery: Public
Focusing
Road + House: Disterbance
Opening
Block
Road
B1
F2
F1
Fincher Lounge | Contrast & Extension Road: Extension
House: Parking Extension
Fincher House: Contrast
2X˚
Wall: Walkway
1X˚
House Forest: Utilize
House
Road F.H.
Forest
Extension
Wall
Scenery
Forest
SP
Fincher House
Fincher Lounge Halls and windows in Fincher House create a certain perspective. Windows have more depth on the upper level, creating a focused and introverted space on the second floor. On the contrary, windows have less depth as on the lower level, making the space comprehensive and public. In the midst of this experience, halls with various shapes connect every room along with stairs and create a distinctive circulation.
2F | Private Program: Bedroom. Bathroom. Library. Workshop Window: Depth of 600mm
1F | Normal Program: Dining. Toilet. Kitchen. Parking. Window: Depth of 450mm
Legend Hall Window Garden Retaining Wall
1B | Public Program: Guest. Bathroom. Bar. Toilet. Lounge. Window: Depth of 300mm
Opened | Open Air Lounge
Closed | Private Screening
2F Program: Screening Lounge. Toilet. Bar. Terrace
Legend Fincher House Spinning Wall Main System Garden Road
1F Program: Machinery. Storage. Toilet. Garden
Mechanic System Room
When the wall is opened, three levels of the seating goes down simultaneously in order to fit the wall spinning radius. This floating space creates two different space experience for audiences.
6 BRIDGE OF WISH L ANTERN Issue Goal Type Year
Nodle Island Bridge Utilizing Horizontal and Vertical Bridge Structure Academic 2016
Abstract
This project is mainly concerning to design a pedestrian bridge that connects Nodle Island with Han River park. Its top priority is to make a design that gets along with the proposal for Nodle Island Opera House done by Jean Nouvel, while maintaining its originality.
Information Site | Nodle Island, Seoul Type | Cable-Stayed Bridge Length | 320 m Height | 80 m Facade | Cotton Louver Program | Observatory
Concept
Cotton Louver Facade
Horizontal Wire
Observatory
Jean Nouvel has proposed a golden box for the main concert hall. The visually distinctive character of the opera house can be seen easily in both day and night. In order to integrate this concept to the bridge, a glowing box that got inspired from floating wish lantern has chosen to be the final idea.
The cotton louver adds a lighter tone to the massive structure. The louver’s transparency differs with the angle, making a unique exterior look. Also at night, it glows subtly like a cotton lantern, creating a cozy atmosphere.
The composition of the wire is an important point for the cable-stayed bridge. Rather than vertically arranged wires, the main tower of the bridge is attached with horizontally arranged wires. It will allow people to experience three dimensionally varying space perception.
Top floors of the bridge tower are composed of 3 stories of the observatory. Rotating cotton louver facade will provide a uniquely sliced view of the city.
Nodle Island
Bridge Substructure The substructure had to match with the tower design. The concept was ‘wrapped cotton’. The intention of this design was to make it look like it is wrapped in a stretched cotton so that it can match with the cotton louver facade.
Han River Park
Han River
7 e x t r a wo r k s Wood Craft | Layered Series Abstract Furniture designed by me are only made out of plywood, timber, and tackers. The goal was to design humbleness: easy-to-make. Also, the utilization of layers will add quality to this simplistically designed furnitures.
Layered Bookshelf
Layered Table Layered Table is focusing on using the section of plywood. Because of its manufacturing technique, layers are composed in the section. By carefully polishing the compound of sliced plywood, layers show distinctive character and oriental quality.
Layered Bookshelf is focusing on three-dimensional layers of timber board. Each boards are meeting with slight sheer in length. With opened and closed back plate, the furniture is showing a variety of flatness and depth.