SEO HEE LEE 2008-2016
SEO HEE LEE 1. The City
THINGS THAT MAKES A HUMAN AND AN ARCHITECTURE
DESIRE :: Love Hotel, Manhattan NY
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MOVEMENT :: Very Fast Airport, Siteless
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ABSENCE :: Potter's Field, Hart Island NY
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MEMORY :: Library, Bowery NY
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DIVIDE :: Urban Infrastructure, Tempelhof Airport Berlin
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PARADOX :: Dormitory, St. Mark's NY
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CREATIVITY :: Tesla Design Studio, Hawthrone CA
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CONTRADICTION :: Furniture
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MEANING :: Writer's Foundation, SOHO NY
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GSAPP Fall 2015
2. Life On Move
GSAPP Summer 2015
3. Requiem
Pratt Institute 2013 Thesis
4. Library of Bowery
Pratt Institute 2009 Fall
5. Urban Orchard
Pratt Institute Summer 2011
6. Eco-Dorm
Pratt Institute 2010 Fall
7. No Place
GSAPP Spring 2016
8. Working Set
Pratt Institute 2012
9. Ode To W. Burroughs
Pratt Institute 2012 Spring
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10. Infinite Web 11. Time and Space
Washington Square NY
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GSAPP Seminar 2015 Fall
Handdrafting
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Pratt Institute Fall 2008
12. Gaze In City
Film Photography
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Pratt Institute Fall 2012
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01. THE CITY |LOVEHOTEL
2015 Fall GSAPP
CRITIC Bernard Tschumi SITE Typical Manhattan Block PARTNER Hyung Kyung Choi
Despite the hope of architects, architecture is impotent in controlling what happens in his or her architecture. Love hotel “The City� takes advantage of this Impotency of architecture to benefit both architecture and the inhabitants who experiences the space. Events and programs, conflicting components of architecture is cultivated and exaggerated to house maximal unprecedented interactions and to fulfill desires of human. Uncertainty of seemingly stable notion of typology are exposed and amplified to reveal its true nature in parallel to the ambivalent desires of human. AMBIVALENT DESIRES
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01. THE CITY |LOVEHOTEL
What is Love? Love is not understood in conventional understanding and is approached through more essential meaning of it. Love is defined as sets relationship between two entities, such as individual to individual, people to people, space to space, events to events, and movements to movements.
What is Hotel? Hotel in this project is stripped away of its conventional and seemingly stable implications but its functions. It is understood as sets of spaces that can be rented by certain periods of time to host any events.
Why THE CITY? Love hotel “The City” intends to bring all kinds of love that happens anywhere in a city into a building. Each room unit is hybridized with other typical program such as house, gallery, theater, and office. As city composition of programs and streets hosting all kinds of events and interactions, “The City” suggests new typology of spaces of units as well as the juxtaposition of them in city like conditions. Each floor is filled with those privately public units are placed adjacent to public programs that brings potential residence or just tourist. It encourages unprecedented interaction between different people in private and public spaces, by providing spaces for all sorts of love.
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LOVE
HOTEL
Relationship Between Two Entities
Space that Hosts Such Various Relationship
LOVE HOTEL | THE CITY
Individual to Individual
Individuals
People to People
People
Events to Events
Events
Space to Space
Spaces
Movement to Movement
Movements
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THE CITY | UNITS AND TYPOLOGY
UNIT / MAXIMUM OCCUPANCY CAPSULE ROOM
CAPSULE 2 ADULTS 100 Sqft ROOM
HOUSE ROOM
HOUSE 3 ADULTS 200ROOM Sqft
OFFICE ROOM
OFFICE 4 ADULTS 300 ROOM Sqft
GALLERY ROOM
GALLERY 4 ADULTS 300 SqftROOM
THEATER ROOM
THEATER ROOM
6 ADULTS 360 Sqft
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Maximum Occupancy
Floor Area
Capsule Room
2 adults
100 sqft
House Room
3 adults
200 sqft
Office Room
4 adults
300 sqft
Gallery Room
4 adults
300 sqft
Theater Room
6 adults
360 sqft
UNIT NARRATIVES
UNIT USER SCENARIO
OFFICE WORKERS
THEATER OFFICE
UNIT ADJACENCY UNIT NARRATIVES
office workers
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GALLARY
THEATER ARTIST
THEATER theater
UNIT NARRATIVES
artists
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LOVERS
CAPSULE capsule
HOUSE house LOVERS
Y ATYPICAL GRID ONTO FLOOR GALLERY gallery
OFFICE office
APPLY ATYPICAL GRID ONTO FLOOR
lovers
UNIT LAYOUT GRID | Manhattan Atypical Grid Condition
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LESS DENSE
Less Dense
MORE DENSE
More Dense
LESS DENSE
MORE DENSE
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1ST FLOOR
1St Floor 1ST FLOOR
2ND FLOOR
2Nd Floor 2ND FLOOR
3RD FLOOR 3Rd Floor 3RD FLOOR
4TH FLOOR
4Th Floor 4TH FLOOR
5TH FLOOR
5Th Floor 5TH FLOOR
6TH FLOOR
6Th Floor 6TH FLOOR
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THE CITY | ORGANIZATION
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Love hotel “The City” is a new typology that is constructed by perversion of conventional typology and elements of architecture that encourages new types of interaction to arise. Typical typology of program such as house, office, gallery, and theater is unstabilized with functions of a room. Each unit is laid along reinterpreted condition of corridor as f luctuation of enfilade into streets, alleys, and piazzas. “The City” accommodate all kinds of events such as pop-up exhibition, theater, presentation, party, and other events. Its ability to accommodate multiple events is supported by different adjacency between units in various street condition creates varying degree of privacy. Floor filled with different private units is stacked in which is intruded by vertically organized public programs that is located in the center of each floor. There are moments when private floor is accessible from the public programs. This connection brings anonymity of city into this project. The anonymity will bring life into love hotel to those who may not want to be seen as guests but to enjoy the space. The ramp connecting public programs not only provides touristic or cinematic view of the love hotel from exterior but also from interior. The overlay of different perspective and views is a result of desires of different people. Desires of people to peek are overplayed as perspective and views different types of occupants. 13
THE CITY | COMPONENTS
STRUCTURE
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Structure
Pillar Structure / Structural Mass
Main Pillar
Ramp For Interaction
Private Floor Connection
Truss Floor
Ramp Supported From Structure
Structure Mass
Truss Floor Pillar Struc
ORGANIZATION
FACADE
Structure
Private Units
Private Skin Varying Degree Of Privacy
r Structure
Intervening Public Program
Public Skin
r Anchored With cture
Private And Public Adjacency
Lovehotel
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THE CITY | CIRCULATION SCENARIOS
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pool
pool
bar
bar
club
club
general public connection to research lab public program
general public connection to research lab public program check-in
research lab check-in
check-in
restaurant
restaurant
club
club bar
bar
public reserach lab check-in
club
bar
club
restaurant
club
club
restaurant
bar
PUBLIC RESERACH LAB - PRIVATE RESIDENCE GENERAL PUBLIC
bar
bar
GENERAL PUBLIC - GENERAL PUBLIC
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THE CITY | PLAN
UP
private check-in 7 8
Research Lab Neighbor
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2 2
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Public Check-in
GROUND FLOOR
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2ND FLOOR
check-in
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Private Check-in
4TH FLOOR
6TH FLOOR
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Galleria Bar Club Restaurant Cafe Pool Loading Dock Office
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THE CITY | AMBIVALENCE AND ANONYMITY
The space of this love hotel “The City” is dedicated to ambivalent desires of people wanting to simultaneously hide and expose. Architecture becomes a medium that enables as a set for desires of people to peek to be overlaid as perspective and views different types of occupants. Occupants are given choice on a set of unstabilized architecture either to fulfill such ambivalence or to choose one over the other. One can be revealed or to be hidden, in other words, either to stabilize or to deconstruct conventional expectations or notions. Occupants are guaranteed of their anonymity, so that more true or hidden side of themselves can be revealed. “The City” incubates unprecedented interaction and relationship between people. AMBIVALENT DESIRES
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02. LIFE ON MOVE |VERY FAST AIRPORT
2015 Summer GSAPP
CRITIC Nanako Umemoto SITE Siteless The Very Fast Airport quotes the language of factory made object, yet is constructed in a way that is untraceable of its origin. Composite of fragmented readymade object is a familiar and new simultaneously. It is Architecture that is independent of any cultural context makes transition from one space to another seamless. The sense of being lost in the metropolis is now translated into concept of airport of Aerotropolis. It is a collection of continuous vectors of people on move. EVERYONE IS ON THE MOVE NOW.
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02.LIFE ON MOVE |VERY FAST AIRPORT What Is Tranportation?
Difference Speed of Movement
Why The Very Fast Airport?
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Transportation is both a space and a type of tool that extends human capacity. It is a continuation of space that connects one static space to another. Transportation is a crucial elements in formation of a city to enhance capacity of human.
Different speed of movement is related to survival and / or capacity of human. Historically, speed of movement has evolved in order of walking, livestock animals, steam engines, cars, trains, and finally airplanes. Different speed of transportation not only defines the dimension of each city block but also dictates how the city need to be organized.
Wit h decrea se in a ir fa re, f ly ing become s more a nd more popular way of traveling. Higher demand will be accommodated with concept of Aerotropolis, where city is constructed with logic of air travel. The Very Fast Airport will make connection between one from another city seamless transition.
AVERAGE SPEED
MAXIMUM SPEED
3.1 mph
5.6 mph
5 mph
8 mph
5 mph
35-40 mph
3.1 mph
5.6 mph
28 mph
35 mph
60 mph
150 mph
60 mph
150 mph
100 mph
280 mph
550 mph
640 mph
AVERAGE BLOCK
120ft x 120ft
220ft x 800ft
2000ft x 2000ft
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LIFE ON MOVE | COMPLEX COMPOSITE VOLUME
MANIPULATION OF PRE-EXISTING
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STRUCTURAL RATIONALIZATION
Front
Front
Back
Back
Left
Left
STRUCTURE / SKIN SYSTEM STRUCTURE / SKIN SYSTEM
INDEX
Primary ORIGINALStructure STRUCTURE Secondary DUPLICATE STRUCTURE
INDEX
ORIGINAL STRUCTURE
DUPLICATE STRUCTURE
SPACE FRAME SLAB
Space Frame Slab
SPACE FRAME SLAB
Space Frame Shell With Space Frame Slab SPACE FRAME WALL / SHELL WITH SPACE FRAME SLAB STRUCTURE
SPACE FRAME WALL / SHELL WITH SPACE FRAME SLAB STRUCTURE
Fabric Skin System SKIN SYSTEM
SPACE FRAME SYSTEM
Space Frame System
Structurally sound geometry of factor y made object is destabilized with cut through it. Composition of unestablished object creates new and more complex geometry that inherits the structure skeleton but its function is differentiated.
SKIN SYSTEM BUTTRESS TRANSITION FROM SPACE FRAME
Buttress Transition From Space Frame
Structure System STRUCTURE SYSTEM
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LIFE ON MOVE | VERY FAST AIRPORT
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Entrance Check-In Gate Baggage Claim
Fabric Skin
Space Frame Structure 0'- 6" Space Frame Joint 0' - 8" Glazing
Polished Concrete Corrugated Metal Plate Space Frame Structure 0' - 4"
Plumbing Hvac
FABRIC SKIN
GLAZING
ASSEMBLY
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LIFE ON MOVE | VERY FAST AIRPORT
Continuation of capitalist development demands certain eff iciency and ways of arranging city. Advanced technology making air fare decrease promoting city to be restructured to adapt new ef f icienc y. Increased speed of transportation destabilize life in space further. The new aerotropolis makes transition from one to another seamless, and by nature of being seamless is almost non-existing space. It is a space of continuous movement and comfortable but not feeling settled. New type of metropolis and life of nomad begins with the Very Fast Airport. EVERYONE IS ON MOVE NOW
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03. REQUIEM |A SONG FOR NAMELESS
2013 Thesis Pratt
CRITIC Frederick Biehle SITE Hart Island, NY
The essence of architecture is at void. The poché is the attempt to render the ecstatic experience of the space, the void. The poché of plan and section is what architect draws to build presence. However, what is really being created is the space. The building is remembered by the accumulated experience of the space. The poché is the notes and the space is the silence between them. Thus, occupying the space is to occupy infinite pause of the silence. Sound is a natural condition and the language of life. Sound is absolute proof of life. Whereas, silence is the living experience of the absence of life, death. It is peculiar yet very familiar like the home that you forgot about. The peculiar experience of encountering silence that questions existence, is terrifying. The silence is diseased by noise, the sound that lost its power. Instead, the sound became the noise as the means to prove its own existence. Unfortunately, in modern time, sound is comfortable and natural. Silence is unnatural and lost. The lost silence, excess, and absence have translated into cemetery for nameless, in the Potter’s field at Hart Island, Bronx. The island is a nearly forgotten place where the city has chosen not to remember. The island is the lost silence. Thus, the project intends to construct a place of silence--creating an architecture that can embrace the void and ultimately provoke an ecstatic moment in a ritual of visitation. The burial site of Potter’s field will be given a presence, remembered by the architecture that respects the world of those who remain and those who have departed.It will reintroduce the silence that modern life has taken away. Absence, the fear. Void, the horror. Silence, the terror.
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04. REQUIEM |A SONG FOR NAMELESS
The forceful separation from silence and death has impaired the experience of the holistic state. The nostalgia has brought the architectural translation of the ecstatic experience of the silent confinement into the architecture of infinity. Whereas the observation requires one to keep safe distance, the experience requires one to be in the collapsed distance. Occupying the unbuilt of the collapse of things onto another is experiencing the vanishing point of infinity. The vanishing point is the apparatus that manipulates the unbuilt silence, ecstasy of infinity. The silence and infinity have translated into program of a cemetery. Thus, architecture is ode to the unbuilt: silent vanishing point of infinity. The lost silence, excess, and absence have translated into cemetery for nameless, in the Potter’s field at Hart Island, Bronx. The island is a nearly forgotten place for the deceased where the city has chosen not to remember. The island is the lost silence. The project intends to construct a place of silence-creating an architecture that can embrace the void and ultimately provoke an ecstatic moment in a ritual of visitation. There are 4 components of intervention within the context of existing island:
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Ferry Dock Pathway Chapel Of Contemplation Above + Underground Memorializing The Burial Field
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Present Isolation Connecting
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REQUIEM | TECTONIC AND SPACE
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Requiem, Rex Tremendae W. A. Mozart Requiem, Rex Tremendae W. A. Mozart Requiem, Rex Tremendae W. A. Mozart Requiem, Rex Tremendae W. A. Mozart
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Repetition Of Structure
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REQUIEM | TECTONIC AND SPACE
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Collective Memory Translated Into Spatial Quality
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Materialization Into Space And Presence
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REQUIEM | ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS AND TIME
Present Departure Dock
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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Departure Dock Arrival Dock Pathway Above Ground Chapel Below Ground Chapel Graveyard
After Death of Humanity Departure Dock
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REQUIEM | ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS AND TIME
Present Hart Island Arrival Dock
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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Departure Dock Arrival Dock Pathway Above Ground Chapel Below Ground Chapel Graveyard
After Death Of Humanity Afterhart Island Arrival Dock
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REQUIEM | ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS AND TIME
Present Path To Chapels And Graveyard
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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Departure Dock Arrival Dock Pathway Above Ground Chapel Below Ground Chapel Graveyard
ARCHITECTURAL ELEMEN DOCK
After Death Of Humanity Path To Chapels And Graveyard
PATHWAY
ABOVE GROUND CHAPEL
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REQUIEM | ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS AND TIME
Present Above Ground Chapel
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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Departure Dock Arrival Dock Pathway Above Ground Chapel Below Ground Chapel Graveyard
After Death Of Humanity Above Ground Chapel
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REQUIEM | ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS AND TIME
Present Below Ground Chapel
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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Departure Dock Arrival Dock Pathway Above Ground Chapel Below Ground Chapel Graveyard
After Death Of Humanity Below Ground Chapel
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REQUIEM | ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS AND TIME
Perpetual Graveyard
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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Departure Dock Arrival Dock Pathway Above Ground Chapel Below Ground Chapel Graveyard
ARCHITECTURAL ELEMEN DOCK
PATHWAY
ABOVE GROUND CHAPEL
The essence of architecture is not at what is built but at what is unbuilt. The pochĂŠ of plan and section is what architect draws to build presence. However, the building is remembered by the accumulated experience of the unbuilt / space. Whereas the observation requires one to keep a safe distance, the experience requires one to be in the collapsed distance. The act of occupation of the unbuilt is to experience the vanishing point of collapsed distance. The act of experience isolates oneself into silent confinement. Thus, architecture is ode to the unbuilt: silent vanishing point of infinity. UNDERGROUND CHAPEL
GRAVE MARKER
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REQUIEM | ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS AND TIME
ABSENCE, THE FEAR. VOID, THE HORROR. SILENCE, THE TERROR.
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03. LIBRARY OF BOWERY HISTORY |ARCHIVING MEMORY
2009 Fall Pratt
CRITIC Lawrence Blough SITE Bowery, NY
Libra r y a s a space of a rchiving a nd communicating information of data has redefined by re-examining its limits. Events, in other words, the information of occupants is constantly being communicated through interface of architecture to surrounding c ont e x t . By a d ve r t i s i n g or pr oje c t i n g i n f or m a t ion of e ve nt s t h a t r e s id e s i n architecture that is relevant to its history of immediate context, Library of Bowery History constantly bridges past to future by being remembered by others. No information is being lost, and architecture is simultaneously a means to remember and a thing of memory. MEMORY AND REMEMBERING
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04. LIBRARY OF BOWERY HISTORY |REMEMBERING
Data needs to be transferred in order to gain its essence. Need for information to be transferred from a generation to the next, brought up the concept of library. Library is the place for the exchange of knowledge throughout storing and displaying data. Physically or virtually written information is engaged through the readers. When the information is read, it activates proliferation of information. The conception of the project starts out with the oldest method of preserving data: carving. Inhabitation of a wall is designed by carving prescribed activity information into medium. The physical or virtual wall of shelves, the medium, is treated stereotonically as a large scale programmatic element that can be embedded with different scales of programs and events. The play within this method allows the architecture to provide people the opportunity to change and redefine the quality and information of the space, which will influence the immediate context and them back in return. Library of Bowery History is the library of Bowery. It is not only storing information about immigration history of Bowery, also communicates which part of history is being accesses instantly. Library of Bowery History will be a landmark that exchanges information across over multiple scale and periods.
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CONCEPT OF CARVING Information : inhabiting shelves
Created Negative Space
Occupying Negative Space Carrel
Extracting Positive Space
Regular Shelves
Grain And Spatial Quality
Grain To Grain To Grain To Grain Surface Exterior Space Separation Separation
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New Stacks
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Oversized Stacks Display Carols
4. Street Side Archive + Carrel
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3. Park Side Archive + Oversized Stacks
Present Immigrant Related
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CARREL + ARCHIVE | CARVING USER INFORMATION
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Unit Of Carrel
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ARCHIVE + DISPLAY | CARVING DISPLAY + STACKS
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Book Stacks Reading Desks
"The Bowery was the place not only where the poor came to divert themselves but where they met and joined together in organizations of varying size and stability" LOW LIFE by Luc Sante p. 13
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LIBRARY OF BOWERY HISTORY | ARCHIVING MEMORY
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Stacks Carrels Oversize + Display Reading Tables Office Restroom Roof Garden MEP
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LIBRARY OF BOWERY HISTORY | ARCHIVING MEMORY
Contents of occupants information carves facade of the library to communicate with its surrounding contexts. The facade system of the Library of Bowery History is not going to be a outdated medium of communication using abstracted systems. This abstraction system does not rely on symbols nor icon except on the intuitive perception in manipulation of surface that is being carved by occupants. The activity or frequency of access to specific parts of its history will be communicated and further expansion of its future enables this landmark of the site to always be in times as much as of contemporary piece as well as of historical one. MEMORY AND REMEMBERING
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05. URBAN ORCHARD |Urban Infrastructure
2011 Summer Pratt Berlin
CRITIC Jonas Coersmier Gisela Baumann SITE Tempelhof Airport, Berlin PARTNERS Robert Hughes Wren Stetekluh Tempelhof airport like the Berlin wa ll, was a symbol of forceful divide of socially constructed notions such a s ideologies, politics, societies, and others of what used to be one. Its historical context of functions as a stage of show case of the forceful separation that results in both the reason for deprivation of food due to its forceful separation and also as a source of food during its shortage that is aided by American air force known as “candy bomber’s field”. Artificial divide of Germany into two different models of society with erection of the Berlin wall, is being reconciled in "UR BAN ORCH AR D” using natural act of agriculture, food, interaction that is stripped of artificial social construct brings two models of the west and the east, and the division of two in contemporary society into a reconciliation together. "UR BA N ORCH A R D" brings forceful separation between consumers and producers, different ideologies by embracing its contexts with act of agriculture the most primitive act of human. It reconnects what is natural back to humanity again. Tempelhof airport has become a new public arena and city forum, a place dedicated to social communication over the ultimate unifier--a good meal. RECONCILED DICHOTOMY
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05. URBAN ORCHARD |URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE
The global reality of food futures is one where food is no longer trusted. As people no longer understand how to interact with products, societies rely on packaging instruction and expiration dates to communicate with what they consume. The impact of food-borne illnesses struck the uneducated future hard. The answer to Berlin’s strife lies at the former candy-bomber airfield, where Tempelhof has become a place of cooperation. The hybrid program is based off a cooperative structure which draws the public into the production processes of growth, harvesting, packaging, selling and distribution; in return those who participate will receive goods and social services. Different levels of commitment are offered; from those who wish to participate by buying goods at the market, by bringing their families to harvest apples, volunteering their free time to farming, or renting their own individual schrebergarten. Social interaction is therefore knitted into the growth centers, with the added opportunities for mingling at the various eateries and drinkeries on the premises. Tempelhof has become a new public arena and city forum, a place dedicated to social communication over the ultimate unifier--a good meal.
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Cooperative To Private Typological Reconcilation between West and East Consumers are Manufacturers
WEST
EAST
Private Production
Cooperative Production
Schrebergarten
Public Market
Coop
Schrebergarten Farmer
Veggie
Vegitable Farm
Fish
Fish Farm
Cafe
Bewery
Bar Club
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Pre-Historical Condition Urban-Orchard
Tempelhof airport is the only realized part of Germania plan by Albert Speer during regime of Nazi. During the regime under Hitler, Tempelhof was a symbol of technological advancement of Germany as well as a future symbol of weakness. Its historical context of functions both as stage of show case of advanced technology and source of food during its shortage that is aided by American air force known as “candy bomber’s field”. After defeat of World War II, Germany was divided into two different models of society with erection of the Berlin wall. "URBAN ORCHARD" brings two models of the west and the east together, furthermore the division of two in contemporary society into a reconciliation. As the Berlin wall served both as a division and as a mitigation of life between West and the East during time of the separation, "URBAN ORCHARD" brings forceful separation between consumers and producers, different ideologies by embracing its contexts with act of agriculture the most primitive act of human. It reconnects food or nature back to humanity again.
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URBAN ORCHARD | ORGANIZATION
PLAN
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Market +Restaurants Co-op Production Schrebergarten Park Farmers' Market
SECTION
Public park
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URBAN ORCHARD | SCHREBERGARTEN TO CO-OP
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SCHREBERGARTEN PLUG-IN MODEL
Market
Entrance To Market
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URBAN ORCHARD | MARKET
History of divide between the East and the West, consumers and producers, and nature and human is being reconciled in a program of Market. Exchange of things that is constructed in different society is a natural event in Market. It is both a place of gathering amongst people and goods (social outcome). Thus, it is the most natural space for different ideologies, people, and objects to come together without being repulsed by the differences. There will be markets both in indoor, terminal space of Tempelhof and outdoor, the hanger. What it used to be a symbol of divide and a painful memory of crime against humanity is now a space of reconciliation demolishing the artificial divide back to holistic state RECONCILED FORCEFUL DIVIDE
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06. ECO -DORM |DORMITORY
2011 Spring Pratt
CRITIC Greg Merryweather SITE St. Mark's, NY PARTNERS Jennifer Villamar
Ecosystem is a complex network consisting of elements that behaves in symbiotic manner utilizing its duality. As an architecture of housing life, Eco-Dorm attempts to become an ecosystem that contains paradoxica l and dual nature of its system. Its symbiotic ne t work s re su lte d f rom u npre d ic t a ble behav ior i n it s i nterac t ion enc ou ra ge s unprecedented interaction that is different than that of a conventional one. Convention of daily life, in other words, ritual of a day is simultaneously challenged and respected to form new interaction between occupants. Paradox of duality or ambivalence in life creating complexity is translated into sequence of spaces and events between students and public. This integration between different people over sequence of spaces compliant with daily ritual is incubated in Eco-Dorm. PARADOX
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06. ECO -DORM |DORMITORY
Ecosystem is complex because of its symbiotic networks. EcoDorm attempts to become an ecosystem within New York City. Its symbiotic networks will actively encouraging an exchange of information that can develop into relationships. Overlap of public spaces and the daily routine creates moments that can potentially be developed into interaction. As this building intends to be an ecosystem, it uses vegetation to form networks between students and public. Opening access of Eco- Dorm to public use makes it absorbed into New York City network. Farmer's market, and grocery from Dormproduced vegetation will be open to public. Students will interact over act of farming, and students and other public will communicate over exchange of produces. Furthermore, different interaction is create between layers of daily ritual. The most private masked layer is pushed right against city fabric whereas inside vegetation facade is completely open to public. Visual and physical interaction will deliver layers of communication throughout the building and to the exterior in a continuous form.
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ECOSYSTEM Contains Qaulity Of Duality And Exchange Of Information Inhabitanats_living In Particular Environment With Unique Information
Architecture_non-Living Providing Environment
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ECO-DORM| RITUAL OF DAILY LIFE IN LAYERS
GROUND FLOOR | Site Approach
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Farmer's Market residents + related personals
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ECO-DORM | RITUAL OF DAILY LIFE IN LAYERS
Ritual is a socially or habitually constructed routine of life. Eco-Dorm both respects and breaks the ritual in fruitful manner. When occupants follow the ritual, architecture i s a l mo s t d i s s olve d due to it s n at u r a l accommodate in layers, yet each moment is presented with unconventional twists. Duality of life, or in other words the complexity of Daily life is manifested in architecture of paradox. Complexity of life is built up with unexpected interaction between people. To promote the complexity, Eco-Dorm quotes the model of ecosystem that exchanges energy, products, and information into programmatic organization to exchange goods, knowledge, emotion, and other information.
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06. NO PLACE |DESIGN STUDIO FOR TESLA
2016 Spring GSAPP
CRITIC Michael Bell SITE Hawthrone, CA
Creative space is a space of intentiona l misfit in which dissipates the perception of subjectivity regarding everyday object and life into estrangement, thus understood as no-place. Negation or dematerialization of architecture by virtue of manufactured perception of time creates the intentional distance, a room for misfit from the social construct allowing one to truly be creative thus, regain state of holistic human. Light is used as a means to manipulate time to estrange conventional notion of events and object. One who is not under the realm of the construct, rather immerse oneself in construct of own understanding of world and being in subjective time through creativity. ARCHITECTURE OF CREATIVE SPACE REGAINS HUMAN BACK.
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06. NO PLACE |DESIGN STUDIO FOR TESLA
No Place intends to dematerialize architecture utilizing light to create time of its own. Construct of own time stripped away of conventional perception of time makes this place to not exist. Light is used as medium to manipulate perception of time. Using architectural elements such as orientation, structure, materials, and others to divid, extract, manipulate to manufacture light. Structure of No Place is ma nifested a s a negation of architecture. Space of non-existing or demateria lized architecture is translated into proxy of space that is forcefully pulled apart from a ground in which attempts to be collapsed back into a ground. Structural negation of architecture translates into means of manufacture lights in No Place. Creativity is a quality that makes human a human. It comes from constructing own understanding of world by creating and understanding distance between what is conventional and its being. No Place is a space for those who seeks to be a human by virtue of being creative.
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Dividing sunlight into the north and the south lit object in a separated and estranged light. In doing so, object is seen in different lighting and therefore context. Perception of time in north view is intentionally differentiated than that in south view. North view elongates normal perception of time while remaining the real time is still elapsing. Space manipulating time with estranged lights onto objects dissipates social construct of subjectivity around space, object, and events.
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DEMATERIALZING ARCHITECTURE
Roofing
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Architecture of no place is manifested in a way is simultaneously manipulates structure and light. Space is conceived of pulled apart surface out of ground by compression then is tied down with tension. The labor put in constructing no-space with tension both dematerializes the wall in structure and in filters light.
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DEMATERIALZING ARCHITECTURE, NO PLACE
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ELONGATED TIME
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ELONGATED TIME
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By stabilizing light level throughout the day without framing movement of the sun, perception of time is elongated. Thus, it creates subjective time while real time elapses. Elusive quality of space is manifested through dematerialized architecture simultaneously negates and va lidates its existence, but nonetheless sculpt experience and time.
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ACCELERATED TIME
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Manipulating light level to create illusion of time accelerating. Space further away is brighter while the time on closer and further away space is the same. Acceleration of time is juxtaposed by the dematerializing roof with materialized wall that is being reflected upon to be conceived as the opposite. While being physically confined, one is unconfined.
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07. METAL WORK |WORK STATION
2012 Fall Pratt
CRITIC Mark Parsons
By v i r t ue of c ont r a d ic t i n g / ne g at i n g its inherent qua lit y of meta l, it creates something that seems unstable a nd unsettling environment. Contradictory act of constructing physical presence to achieve the opposite quality of absence is parallel to that of architecture. Lightness and heaviness, one of essential quality of physical being is investigated in terms of constructing a situation or an environment. Act of creating, art is situated within physical presence of metal and light creating absence. LIGHTNESS AND HEAVINESS
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07. METAL WORK |WORK STATION It is a careful composition of metal negating the heaviness to achieve lightness using the very quality of heavy metal. Its construct almost seems fragile in which alarms the user to be fully awake. The designed discomfort of the desk and the chair creates an environment reminding user to be disciplined and alert during the act of art. It is a environment bridging rationality and irrationality. Light is ubiquitous and omnipresent. The realm of it contains the territory of life. Life is an extension of art and living is an action of art. The presence of light brings harsh threshold between light and darkness, and life and death. The light is considered to be good, despite the utterly harsh consequences. These collections of light is a statement of uncomfortable aspects of light by exaggerating its brutality within.
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Drafting Work Set + Vertical Light Drafting Work Set + Horizontal Light
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08. ODE TO W. BURROUGHS |WRITER'S FOUNDATION
2012 Spring Pratt
CRITIC Frederick Biehle SITE SOHO, NY Ode to William Borroughs investigates what meaning is. Seemingly meaninglessness of subconscious in random juxtaposition with seemingly meaningful consciousness questions both meaning and consciousness. Systematic Randomness is used to create experiential space questioning meaning and consciousness. Act of ascend and descend with absurdity of destination makes one to wonder meaning of act. MEANING OF MEANINGLESS
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08. ODE TO W. BURROUGH |WRITER'S FOUNDATION
Naked Lunch is William Burroughs’s one of the most influential novel with autobiographical characteristic. This piece of work was revolutionary in terms of its construction method such as random cut-up. Random cut-ups of texts is laid in some kind of sequence oscillating between the conscious and the subconscious state as if one goes through process of being high and come off. In making William Burroughs’s Writer’s Foundation, Ode to William Burroughs desires to make the Naked Lunch into architecture itself, instead of being just a container for Burroughs work. His unique style of constructing a novel using random cut up is understood as an experiment to give meaning to meaninglessness. This method undermines conventional narrative and creates something new. The novel even goes back and forth the conscious and subconscious, as if the novel was written by a drug addict in which he was one. William Burroughs Writer’s Foundation is an architectural ode to Naked Lunch. The architecture intends to become one of his work, instead of just containing one. This foundation is rather a memorial of what his novel is meant to achieve in which questions conventional functionality, purposefulness, and experience.
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TEXT CUT-UP METHOD | CRUSH Outside
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ODE TO W. BURROUGHS| SPATIALIZAING TEXT CUT UP
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ODE TO W. BURROUGHS | MEANING OF MEANINGLESS
Space in Ode to Willia m Burroughs is orga nized into act of a scend ing a nd descending, which is parallel to the state of consciousness and subconsciousness. At the end of ascend, there are unoccupiable writers’ room spaces in bright light in which illustrates seemingly logical yet absurdness of consciousness. On the other hand, there archives of work in the end of descend allowing accessibility of information in state of subconscious self in sunken dark space. The movement of Ode to William Burroughs runs in a loop going back and forth of consciousness and subconsciousness. MEANING OF MEANINGLESS
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09. INFINITE WEB |INTERGRATED PARMETRICS
2015 Fall Seminar GSAPP
CRITIC John + Brian Lee SITE Washington Sqaure, NY
The strength in using web relies on its inherent efficiency in structural quality of it. We intend to create a building that is made of webs in which provide structure for building, space, and facade. Thickened / 3 dimensional webs is similar to the traditional structure system of building, yet structure of web can provide efficiency in constructing more complex, thus allows multi-functional spaces. Use of web as architectural means will change understanding of architecture as a more autonomous entity of thickened surface condition.
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INFINITE WEB | INTEGRATED PARAMETRICS
WORK FLOW
Parametric Adaptive Componenents
Final Visualization
Daylight Simulation
3D Modeling
Decomposition Of Polysurface To Mesh Physics Simulation
Feed Back Loop
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Circulation Design
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10. DISTORTION OF TIME |TIME AND SPACE
2008 Fall Pratt
CRITIC Michele Gorman
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DISTORTION OF TIME
The relationship bet ween object, space and time is explored. The relationship of object in the measuered with shadows in a distortion of time. Where as line is explored as 3-dimensional space in true measure of time and space. The true measure of line movement then becomes the stages to illustrate the true measure of time and pace. One inquiries about distion of time in acceleration within space. The other ponders on the space of time.
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11. GA ZE IN CITY |HUMAN AND ARCHITECTURE
2012 Fall Pratt
CRITIC Peter Kayafas
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GAZE IN CITY | SUBJECTIVITY
Piercing gaze of the human subject within the photograph into the observer switches relationship between who is subject and object. The constant investigation of other in method of constructing identity of subject is explored, which otherwise the unnoticed perpetual shift in the issue of otherness and subject in the cities.
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GAZE IN CITY | SUBJECTIVITY
Human as a subject of both individual and collective is being explored in the setting of city. Metropolitan city is ambivalent towards individuality of people as well as its own identity as heterogeneity. It is a setting or a framework that seems to enable revealing of individuality that is being sedated.
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SEO HEE LEE Education
509 West 110th St. New York NY, 10025 seohee.lee.studio@gmail.com 917 612 9375
Columbia University, New York, NY
2015 - 2016
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2008 - 2013
Ms.AAD, graduated with Honor Awards for Excellence in Design B.Arc, graduated with Excellence in Academic Achievement _President's List Honor + Dean's List Honor
Work Experience RUR Architectu DPC
Freelancing _Drafting plans and sections with technical information _Coordinating information for competition proposal _Design for competition Adjunct Faculty, Associate in Architecture GSAPP, NY Critic. Dan Wood MS.AAD design studio _Guiding conceptual development of students' design _Orchestrate review spaces and schedules _Assist in research materials Pratt Architecture Shop, Brooklyn, NY
Sep. 2016 - Present
June 2016 - Aug. 2016
Shop Monitor for laser, 3d print, wood, metal _Manage shop facilities and troubleshooting problems _Organizing schedules during high demand period to run at its maximum capacity. _Solve physical and conceptual problems that students have in the process of making idea physical
Sep. 2010 - May 2013
Teaching Assistant, Pratt Institute
Aug. 2009 - Dec. 2013
RSVP Architecture Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Dec. 2010 - Jan. 2011
Critic. Michele Gorman, Greg Merryweather, Dan Silver 1st and 2nd year design and hand representation studio _Guiding conceptual and technical difficulties in development of students' design _Orchestrate review spaces and preparing representation tutorial for 20 students
Internship _3D modeling of renovation project _Constructing graphics to organize portfolio _Preparing materials for client meetings and in house events _Preparing article to publish
Skills
Language + Critical Thinking
Fluent in both English and Korean verbal and written
Softwares
Rhinoceros, Autocad, Revit, 3Ds Max, Maya, Grasshopper, Hummingbird Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Premiere, Aftereffect V-Ray, Maxwell, Mental Ray, Brazil, Diva, Microsoft Suite
Tools
Metal Work, CNC, Woodworking, 3D Print, Laserprint
Academic Awards + Publications
In Process Issue 15 - 19, Pratt Institute _Design 101, 102, 201, 202, 301, 402, 403, And 503
2009 - 2014
Degree Project Awards Review, Pratt Institute
May 2013
Nominated For Fred L. Liebman Book Award, AIA
Nov. 2009
_Representation 113, 114 _Materials and Methods
Requiem| A Song For Nameless, Hart Island, NY