SHINAH LEE
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Architecture between man and nature
Sansuhwa
Preface I often question on various phenomenon which modernity brought us over the last two centuries. Since the industrial revolution, the world has undergone drastic changes in natural and cultural landscapes. Towns and villages were urbanized and modern infrastructures were laid; the technology arrived at our door. The machine age facilitated large volume of manufacturing activities. As a result, our environment was greatly disfigured as we became to ascertain at later time. Throughout my study at Rhode Island School of Design, I continued to question the inherent cultural value of architecture and human relationship to nature. Each project’s relationship to its surrounding was thoroughly regarded as well as the environmental impact. Rather than persisting on particular ideologies, I focused on human lives and local development. Therefore, style is not in question hither. Rather, timeless elements that are fundamental to ensure human values and conditions are what I strive for in my work. Through the physical manifestation of architectural body, modern culture is imprinted. The production of our consideration or lack of, will be tested and proven over the course of time.
June, 2011
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Table of Contents
URBAN Blackbox Theater
Urban Renewal - Vertical Farming
Horizontal City - New Toyosu Fish Market
SUBURBAN
Swiss Studio - Graub端nden DAR School :
water/wind/light/earth
DAR School
Thesis: New Yeongju University and Research Center
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BLACK BOX THEATER Providence, RI
Roof Terrace
The small yet dramatic site is located in between South Main Street, the central boulevard where restaurants, shops and public buildings are located. Benefit Street is 55 feet higher in elevation and consists mainly of private residences.
Event Room
Classroom Box Theater Backstage
Cafe
Lobby Rehearsal Room
Scene Shop
The main goal of the project is to integrate the public pathway and the program of the theater, to naturally bring the two populations to interact. The theater will provide diverse cultural programs and venues for public events in the box theater, classrooms and open air roof terrace. Full set of project drawings exhibited at: “Beyond Media”, Visions 9th International Festival for Architecture and Media in Florence, Italy (July 2009) The project also was selected to be published in “2010 Travel Award” publication by RISD Department of Architecture. Studio: Architectural Design Principles, 2nd semester Core Spring, 2009 Critic: Peter Tagiuri
Site Section & Roof Plan
24”x36” Graphite and Water Color on Paper
Highly flexible in its configurations to convert into desired settings, the wooden box theater is contained in a heavy masonry structure, as a delicate instrument is held in its case. While the presence of the building is subdued away from the street level, the pedestrians are invited with generous outdoor courtyard path, curious to discover what is to be unveiled. The roof glass box at night illuminates from above as lantern and living billboard, while the artificial light from the ground lobby seeps out to the street level courtyard: the first room of the theater, the soft boundary.
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Ticket Booth EXIT
2 Restrooms 3
Rehearsal Room
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Green Room
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Costume Shop
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Scene Shop
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Rest Area (built-in seating)
Mezzanine - box theater
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Ground Floor Plan
2FL - cafe
Classroom 3FL - classroom
Cafe
Lobby
Rooftop - event room & garden/outdoor theater
Box Theater
Rehearsal Room
Scene Shop
Transverse Section II 24” x 36” Graphite on Paper
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URBAN RENEWAL - Site Survey 2'-8"
Providence, RI
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Loading Dock Loading Dock -22'-7" TOC
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One week analysis and documentation of one of the sites for adoptive reuse program of vertical farming. Two historic industrial buildings still retain their integrities and original equipments in some facilities. Field measurement was conducted as a group and each student documented chosen part of the subject. (Above: CAD drawing of the north facade)
Studio: Advanced Studio/ Spring 2010 Critic: Anastasia Congdon
PROPOSAL - New Vertical Farm Providence Fruit & Produce Market
Providence Fruit and Produce Market was established in 1929 as a warehouse and market between the train and the consumer. Since then for 69 years, it has served the Providence community well until the industry was dominated by the large super-markets. After a long period of bidding process, it fell into the hands of a developer who demolished it in 2008 to sell the lot. Working with the ghost and memory of this thin building of 965 feet in length, I first considered its location, purpose and meaning.
Concept Sketches 9� x 12�
Graphite on Trace
In given circumstances, the intervention must maximize the solar gain for commercial growing while maintaining public spaces, education facilities and the marketplace. I split the building between the public and the private areas by scooping away a steep valley of void in the center. The roof and the floor plates were eroded in length, following the grain and the direction of other surrounding veins. Opening up the middle of the building in a courtyard scheme not only introduced light, but also created its own river within.
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Building Section
East end Office/Control Tower
The grain of the building is defined by the modulated planting beds, fountains and fish tanks. From the basement level, one looks up to the courtyard balconies of the upper levels and up to the sky. Over the split, large portions of the public functions and engagements occurs on the north side while private growing facilities are on the south, mostly enclosed for sanitary reasons. The space between the south facade and the freeway becomes outdoor farming and live-stock area. Water collection occurs in the roof, draining from east to west, back to the basement treatment system for irrigation and plumbing. Both the public and the commercial composting areas are also located in the basement.
Basement Plan: Public may enter in the central Market Place through basement and/or 1st floor level. East wing: food processing, mushroom & fish farm, compost for community garden. West wing: Commercial warehouse and shops.
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PUBLIC First Floor Plan
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Graphite on Velum
East wing: office, public plaza and circulation to the mezzanine level cafe and 2FL restaurant. Center: marketplace. West wing: commercial growing, docks and circulation to 2FL community garden, incubator kitchen and classrooms.
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This building serves as the hub of public interaction and the provider of fresh produce, fish and grocery as a giant backyard for neighboring community and local citizens. However, its sheer capacity also provides opportunity to send what is harvested to other states as well. Above all, the building runs on its own ecology, amidst light, water and soil, in a temperature and humidity controlled environment while providing pleasure to the eyes with its green space in and outside of the building.
HORIZONTAL CITY Kitchen of Japan moves with its 500 year history
TOKYO - Amnesic Vertical Forrest There are no enforced zoning ordinances in Tokyo. The result is grotesque juxtaposition and acrobat of buildings and infrastructure, traffic and people. Buildings of yesterday are forgotten as soon as the new breeds come into the sight.
To Ginza
With rare opportunity of starting with near clean slate in TOYOSU, new scenario can be written to shift the center of Tokyo Bay. Utilizing existing infrastructure with added improvements, a platform for a different experiences of urban landscape is offered.
Current Site
Advanced Studio Fall 2010 Critic: Junichi Sato
Ferry Terminal
New Site
Tokyo Tower & modern day skyscrapers
Residential
New Hub
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Connection to Subway Lines
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Inbound from Airport
Highways Monorail New Ports Main Delivery from Boats
Original Tsukiji Fish Market in Edo Period
Shift of the Center of Tokyo Bay
To Toyosu
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HORIZONTAL CITY Tokyo Bay, Japan
HOUSING INSTITUTIONAL
HOUSING
HIGHRISES
CIVIC
THE STRATEGIES
PUBLIC
PARK COMMERCIAL
- Shift at the core Toyosu was build out artificially as an athlete’s complex to launch the world Olympics which unfortunately failed. It is now mostly barren with the exception of the monorail stations and an electrical company.
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Terminal & Commercial
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RECREATIONAL (Public Bath, Sports Facility)
Commercial
FISHMARKET
INDUSTRIAL
a. With added ports for water transportation to existing highways and railways, customers and travelers can easily access the site. b. Toyosu is highly contaminated and the soil needs to be treated. Also, constant supply of fresh and salt water is needed for the market, requiring a treatment facility. Utilizing constructed ground to elevate the market off the contamination conveniently provides architectural opportunities for sectional hierarchies which separate pedestrian and vehicular traffics.
Current Tsukiji Fish Market
Monorail from Airport
Rainwater Collection
Skylights
Soil Treatment Facility
Plaza Entrance
Elevator
Tsukiji Fish Market is the largest open-air wholesale fish and seafood market in the world. It opened in 1500 A.D. during Edo era. The market first started in Nihonbashi area mainly to supply fish to Tokugawa Shogunites in Edo Castle. By 1935, it was relocated to current site and has been re-established to handle 2300 tons of goods and 14,000 customers per day. There are currently 700 fishmongers, 900 licensed firms and 50,000 foot traffic at any given day at Tsukiji. In 1997, Tokyo Municipal Government decided to relocate the market to TOYOSU by 2014 to take advantage of the prime real estate value near Ginza, one of the highest in Japan.
Commercial Delivery
ICE MACHINE
The word “Tsukiji” literally means ‘landfill’ - indeed Tsukiji site is a landfill, and so is TOYOSU - only three times larger and also has substantial amount of carcinogens.
Salt Water Station Commerce Canal Treatment Level from Ocean Level System
Rain Water Treatment System
Water Treatment Facility
Cold Storage
Retail
Above: northwest section of the station and the market complex
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Low-rise buildings in Ningyo-cho
Learning from the origin - Edo
Entrance to the outer market
The design of the new market complex is modeled after the lower town, ’shitamachi’ near present Nigyo-cho. Most of the shops were two stories, often with residences on the upper level. Edo was significant in Japanese history for the cultural and economical advancement including the thread of current popular culture in the form of wood block printing, literature, poetry and theater. In many ways, 500 year old Tsukiji market is the few remnants of the old street culture that survived the modern development in Japan.
Above: Retail shops that extend from the train station. Localized rain water collection system is incorporated into the design in each section of the project. The feeling of the small scale retail shops from the nihonbashi area is translated into modern language.
Current stall configuration for IkiSandai, a family business of three generations at Tsukiji. Most stall designs follow the logic of the old Edo shop buildings at the tectonic level.
Above: view out to the water and the market from the platform through the enclosed glass terrace. Left: front facade of the station directly connect to the retail stores off from monorail on the southwest side towards the fish market. The northeast side leads to a platform of multifunctional public space above enclosed retail shops.
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SWISS STUDIO - Material Study Vignon, Switzerland
One week of in-depth material study to discover organizing principles from a given material to generate design strategies. Studio: Advanced Studio/ Winter 2010/ Vignon, Switzerland Critic: Ramun Capaul
Photos & Travel Sketches
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NEW YOUNGJU UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH CENTER Youngju, South Korea
County of Yeongju includes eleven districts, including Yeongju city with population just over 100,000. Photographed on the left is village Sudori, with history of over 400 years and several historic landmarks. The area is to be evacuated and moved by 2013 along with 13 other historic landmarks such as the first private institute from Yi dynasty. Dozen other towns will be submerged. Naesung-Chun is a tributary stream of river Nak-dong which holds uniquely large quantity of sand that acts as a giant filter. This is the reason for the first-grade water quality in the region. Due to the construction of the Youngju dam, the amount of sand will dramatically decrease. Currently in effect, dredging along the river line will eradicate large number of wetlands where variety of microorganisms live and are home for migratory birds traveling from China to Japan. Moreover, farmlands will be lost and the new large body of water is expected to cause severe fog, changing the microclimate of the region, thus taking the two most profitable local crops; Ginsen and a special type of potatoes.
Strategies The counter proposal needs to mediate both environmental and cultural impacts caused by the large development plan. Yeongju City
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Time negotiation
Site
Flood Zone after Construction
The intervention needs to take an account for the disparity between the unsightly modern buildings in Youngju City and the historic cultural artifacts from Yi dynasty in Sudori village.
Modern City Yeong-Ju
Today
Current River Width
Rate of Time Negotiation
In comparison to the large number of elementary and junior high schools in the area, there are only few vocational universities. By creating a research institute/ university in this biologically diverse environment, local students can receive a quality higher education along with nationally recognized researchers interested in preserving the environment and the culture that is unique to the regional and national identity.
Features 400 yr Village
Conceptual diagram
1) Program - a new campus for a university/research institute. 2) Infrastructure a. High-speed train to connect with other universities, research facilities and closest metropolitan city Daegu. b. Cable car system for local mobility.
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Expected Flood Map
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Top: Sansuhwa* One - Etching
(*Sansuhwa means “Painting of Mountains and Rivers”, and refers to paintings of Korean landscape)
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MAIN
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1. Administration 2. Meeting Hall 3. Cable Car Station 4. Tea House
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Naesung-Chun
CULINARY & HOSPITALITY
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5. Classrooms & Kitchens 6. Dormitory 7. Food Storage
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ART & CULTURAL STUDY
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8. Public Workshop & gallery 9. Main Library 10. Cultural Research Center/ Liberal Study 11. Temporary Housing
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Private 5
ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 1
12. Ecological Research Lab 13. Temporary Housing 14. Conference Center & Classrooms 16. New Wetlands
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AGRICULTURE 15. Classrooms, labs & Warehouse
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Building as a mountain Park
The Administration Building is designed in reference to ascending roof lines on columns and the courtyard system. The roof is used to collect rain water. It is designed in segments to guide water down to several ponds that act as cisterns to supply water between the building, school farm and nearby residents.
Public
Aside from traditional Hanok buildings, natural curve lines found often in Korean architectural elements, such as Hwasung castle or stone towers are inspirations for the design. Each building is designed slightly differently to suite the program. The range of design will run in the spectrum of more traditional to more modern, yet not one will be strictly traditional or just modern without references.
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Thresholds, overhanging eves, courtyards. Stepping stones and trench for draining.
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SHINAH LEE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN Master of Architecture 2011 slee27@risd.edu shinah_lee@yahoo.com
Sansuhwa Three - Etching
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