2008-2014
Spaces are like perfumes. Different and distinct smells are made depends on the individuals even with exactly the same fragnance by being co-mingled with their own smell and its theory applies with spaces. If i were to show this space that’s a shape of a square created and divided by the same concrete walls, it can be totally differentiated according to the person who live in. Spaces are like perfumes. However, if a perfume that considers each and everyone’s characteristics is to be created,unlike the duplicates of the same perfume products out there, this world will be filled with various and uncountable fragnances ,that people have never smelt before, combining with individuals’ diverse smell. Spaces as well may need to be designed in a way that has assorted fragnances and individualities. Soomin Lee
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Find the space and give them their Identity. The memories from the journey of rooms, which showed that the diary written with their daily lives magically bloat into a giant boxrooms with their desires and dreams, made me wonder where the untouchable yet feelable power of spaces that I can feel comes from.
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Re - arousing Memory
PROGRAM Installation PERIOD 2013 MA PROFESSOR Eduardo Duarte
Light is a material which varies with time. Our perception of a space, therefore, can be affected by intercepting and manipulating light over various times of day. In the Pombal palace in Lisbon, each room has distinctive colors. So, the reading of the palace can be considered as experiencing color. After experiencing the colorful rooms, visitors may remember the color as residual images. This installation references existing elements of the building. By experiencing the palace at a smaller scale, the visitor is made conscious of the existing colors, patterns, and textures throughout the building. These elements are shown as shadow and light according to the time of the day, and depending on the changes in the angle of the natural light in the space.
This palace has very distinctive colors for each room, which visitors experience when they walk through the building .These colors remain as residual memories. When visitors reach the final white room, the installation projects the various colors of the palace, which evoke and trigger these sensory memories.
Sun analysis Like a laser beam needs a fog in the space to be seen, light always needs a medium to reveal itself. When a designer controls this medium by adding different translucent panel, one can control the amount of light which is shown in the space. By doing this, layers of light allow viewers to perceive various spetial depth in a room.
Light effects in the space
Fabrication Process Plastic, Vacuum formed, 150X150mm each module, 12 modules assembled for a panel
By analyzing existing Baroque and unique patterns and colors from each room in the palace, each transparent panel projects the elements according to time. Visitor would see different patterns and colors depending on the time of their visit, and this educates visitors about existing historical elements of palace.
Perspective
Design process 01:00 pm
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Analysis of existing light
Mirrors installed adjacent to the window
Colored and Patterned Panels installed
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Reflectors placed to redefine the space
Large Scale _ Proposed Installation
The space changes with the light
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Projected color view from A
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Layers of the rooms Just as viewers choose the circulation through the palace and experience different orders of color, viewers also experience different orders of color depending on their approach to the box.
View point changes
These overlapping layers of colors offer varying perspectives according to the angle of viewing. This visual disparity naturally encourages viewers to walk and take up new viewing positions. As a result, the space around the lightbox becomes alive through the viewers’ movements.
Small Scale _ Actual Inatallation
Light Box installation
Design method
Sunlight was studied over the course of the day. Reflectors were placed to project colored daylight within the room depending on the time of day.
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Depending on the time of day, the room has different colors of the light, and this gives the room various atmosphere.
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Indirect Communication
PROGRAM PERIOD PROFESSOR
Installation 2013 MA Markus Berger
“ Indirect Communication” from Soren Kierkegaard’s posthumous autobiography The Point of View for My Work as an Author (pp 39-41)
“One can deceive a person for the truth’s sake, and (to recall old Socrates) one can deceive a person into the truth. Indeed it is only by this means, i.e., by deceiving him, that it is possible to bring into the truth one who is in an illusion. Indirect Communication
Indirect Space
Fragment of Image
Site
By installing the mirror panels in abandoned space in Copenhagen, visitors will experience new sense of space and fragment image of themselves. Through this experience, this helps visitors to understand the principle concept of Kierkegaard’s philosophy “ Indirect Communication”.
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Detail structure
Light Changes
This space offers two distinctive areas to understand Kierkegaard’s philosophy. One is for experiencing the space and the other one is for reading room. Due to the angle of the reflectors, these give various images and lights in the experiencing space, on the other hand, the light does not interfere the reading room.
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ARCHITECTURAL URBANGARDEN PROGRAM PERIOD PROFESSOR
Housing 2009 Junior Daehee Jo
Concept
OLD (single house) New( Apt)
Situation “House with a garden” a rise of terrace houses. This is a response to demands for a personal green space even in sharing buildings,for instance, apartment buildings. However, terrace houses have an extreme defect that it can only happen on inclined areas. To solve this problem, i propose a brand-new type of residence form that is able to embrace sufficient area of green space through a combination of new, multi-applicable units.
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Now (Single house + Apt)
perspectives
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Applying
Unit Mix
Perspective Giving Shape
Circulation
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Listen to the architecture PROGRAM Housing PERIOD 2007 Sophomore PROFESSOR Gwanseok Lee
As music notes on a paper allow you to imagine and hear the melody, architecture lets people feel the rhythmic movement of space by placing different walls and slabs. Through the varying transition of depth of spaces, i suggest a residential space that can be turned into a such rhythmical place from a dry, boring space by its ability of letting you to experience different spaces according to your movements.
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In-between space PROGRAM Museum PERIOD 2007 Sophomore PROFESSOR Jinwook Sung
A building site located region called Suwon-si, Youngtong-gu is filled with neighborhood living facilities and residential area and contains solely one green space called “Bandal Park” which is noticeably very narrow. Considering the condition that an art museum is being built in this park, I suggest an art museum that uses the top part of the building as the green space is used to be and having an easily-accessible community space within the park in a way that it’s on the minimum level of damaging the area of the green space.
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Circulation Diagram
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Site plan site : 40-1, paldalgu, youngtongdong, suwonsi, Kyunggi-do, Korea area : 50mX60.2m
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Time Consuming Space
The objective of Time Consuming Space is, through image and time, to explore a new dimension of spatiality. Space, in comparison to spatiality, is more related to physical material, dimensional volume and the effect of light. Spatiality, however, is not only related to what space is concerned with, but also related to memory and events, and remnants of its surrounding within space.
Displaying movement
PROGRAM Cultural complex PERIOD 2011 Senior PROFESSOR Dooyeol Lee
Movement can be traced as an act of drawing within a space. This project frames human movement, rendering time physical. Movement itself becomes the exhibition.
Model view
Displaying street
Urban scenario
Diatant View
When this strategy is extended over the whole city, space itself becomes museumlike, where we can place past events within spaces of the city. In contrast to the traditional display of relics in a museum, this project brings the city alive by framing contemporary activity.
Street = Living museum
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Site plan
Birds eye’s view
Close View
The Playbox project
CANADA WOOD WOKRSHOP PROGRAM Pavilion PERIOD 2011 Senior PROFESSOR Gwansoo Kim
Apply the theoretical knowledge learned from Architectural class and was made by step from start chopping wood nailed to a pavilion that you can actually use. Great learning experience to know the structure practically .
Lay down and downward together with friends
Have a free moment, leaning back and listening to music
Making process
Elevation LOOK+TOUCH+LEARN M A K E B E L I E V E R E D I S C O V E R I N G
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sit face to face infront of table to study together or eat together
The shelves can use for putting toy or books
3D models
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Contraction of SPACE What are the boundaries of space and objects? Which range from the size of the objects from our space is recognized as the formative refuses to recognize? Space should be de ned depending on the scale of the observer. Segment can be one of the huge space, depending on the viewing position and this also can be looked into massive object.
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, space, chinese ink on wood, cement, 260cm X 320cm X260cm, 2012
Space exists in any part of the world. Spaces like Buildings exist within cities, rooms do as well in buildings, shoe racks are there in rooms and finally shoes are placed on the shoe racks. They are impossible to be limited as the absolute size.
Back view
Contraction of space, space, chinese ink on wood, cement, 260cm X 320cm X260cm,
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Points gathers to be a line, and the lines, to be a side surface and the surfaces to be three-dimensional object. Back in the process of one-dimensional, two-dimensional, three-dimensional space, the contraction of the three-dimensional space,it is often perceived solely as lines and points.
Details Space that exists inside the space as part of the debris off the line wrapped around the space again repeated and mass interaction is proposed.
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Distortion of SPACE
The city is constantly changing. May inflate the functions of the city and building a physical presence to the people by suggesting activities contractions can. Invisible to the eye, the change of the variable space reinterpret see through the distortion of the three-dimensional space.
distortion of the space, space, line, transparency film, 45cm X 45cm X45cm, 2012
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space changes
distortion of the space, space, line, transparency film, 45cm X 45cm X45cm, 2012
Space repeatedly expands and contracts. It tends to make people feel like it’s changing due to speed, activity, people’s density as well as physical change. Since transition of a space influences other spaces to alter, space will modify in a consecutive way just like dominos
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Undefined Space
Undefined Space, Tape,wood, Space, 5mX6mX4m,2014
Process
One + One = One
location : Yongam-ri, Byeollaemyeon, Namyanju-si, Gyeonggido, Korea Won “The first Prize” and “The Owner Selection Prize” Members : Soomin Lee, Jiha Lee, Richard Lee, Soheun Han, Hyesung Yun, Hyunsuk Yun, Mikyu Park, Dahyun Lee, Sangmin Byun,
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One + One = One, space, fabric, box, 100cm X 90cm X420cm (structure) , 2012
Details
Fabric Our main concept ‘one+one=one’ came from two conflicting use of the word ‘one’. A single person is counted as ‘one’, and a group of pe ople is also termed as ‘one’. In other words, independent ‘one’s build a relationship to make a new
The whole process to make the final piece was filmed and became an important part of the project. The performer carries a box which indicates ‘one’ and leaves trace with fabric. these ‘one’s from far distant starting points make new ‘one’ at the meeting point. this new structure has wrinkles which represent the soft property of fabric but it stands high which is
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Interactive WALL
Since then, walls were one of the factors that physically cut off from the space. This results in an extreme lack of communication between inside and outside. However, this cut-off space due to the interactive wall, the wall works as a connecting media between the two different spaces. Walls with these functions turn around the existing role of walls
Interactive space, space, light, mirror paper, mixed media 2m X 5m X 0.2m, 2012
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Back View
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An image of space made by the light reflected in different sizes and angles of walls, is distorted in the opposite space then it’s reflected. Therefore, it grants diversity and connectivity for the spaces to be interactive.
Digital Image
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Movement creates interactive patterns Unexpected movement produces a new drawing on the wall. Interactive wall objectifies and portrays human’s movement like a drawing paper as well as it delivers the movement to the opposite space.
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Interactive SPACE
spaces are perceived and separated by these physical boundary called “ walls”. However, in contrast,non-physical properties can also perform the same thing as physical boundary.Through this non-physical property, such as “light”, space boundary that is on a new and escalated level, is suggested and creating an interactive space that can be directly influenced by people’s movement.
Interactive space, space, light, fog, mirror 500cm X 800cm X250cm, 2012
Light acts as a “wall” which is devide spaces, but not physically.
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Articulation of space should not exclude a changing of objects, their movements and participants status in the space. These changes do not stop flowing with time. resonance between masses, sculptural features and interpenetration of spaces, the aesthetics of space should include ones movement and memories.
Interactive space, space, light, fog, mirror 500cm X 800cm X250cm, 2012
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Activity variations
Depend on the movement, the space which is created by the boundary of light keep changing. This is called interactive space.
Method of creating spaces Attached mirror on the body allows the light to be reflected in different ways according to the movement and guides the movement itself to become a changing tool of the space.
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Movement creats space variation. Space interacts with human activities.
Space variations
Reflected light create changable space
Non-physical boundary that is created by lights, provides unrealistic sense of spaces to humans. Not a permanantly set boundary yet a new level of space that constantly changes in a response to a person’s movement, offers a sense of a fourdimensional space with a bit of a notion of time.
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Drawings on the space
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Unlike a drawing that’s done on a paper, drawing of a “light” happens in three-dimensional space. Movement of lights that portrays the instant drawing, not the one that will be recorded continuously, expresses as a drawing that possesses the lights’ changeability, diversity and spontaneousness.
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Drawings on the space If i were to assume that various forms of gravity exist, drawing made by paints is not simply created in two-dimensional space. It creates a new drawing within the space. Being against the existing pictures on canvas, drawing in space recreates a new space as well as consecutive spaces. shape.
In the different gravity
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Change of Flow
Nothing last forever. As time goes by, weather is going to be changed, temperature is going to be changed, color is going to be changed, shape is going to be changed, mood also is going to be changed but one thing last forever which is fundimental for everything.
through four seasons
acrylic on paper 15cm X 15cm , 2012
A four seasons, acrylic on canvas 72.7cm X 60.6, 2012 B four seasons, acrylic on canvas 72.7cm X 60.6, 2012
C four seasons, acrylic on canvas 72.7cm X 60.6, 2012
D four seasons, acrylic, metal on canvas 72.7cm X 60.6, 2012
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The movement
who has seen the wind?
Who Has Seen the Wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. By Christina Rossetti 1830–1894
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A The movement, acrylic on paper 54.5cm X 78.8cm , 2012 B The movement, acrylic on paper 54.5cm X 78.8cm , 2012 C The movement, pastel on paper 54.5cm X 78.8cm , 2012 D The movement, acrylic on paper 54.5cm X 78.8cm , 2012
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Overturned SPACE We wear cothes every day. When interpreting clothes as spatial, we go inside the space of clothes is to show the outside of the space. Jeans always are shown only internal. However I reinterpret it into internal and external ambiguous space.
Overturned space, space, jeans on board, 100cm X 160cm X30cm , 2012
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Overturned space, space, jeans on board, 100cm X 160cm X30cm , 2012
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Spaces are like perfumes Different and distinct smells are made depends on the individuals even with exactly the same fragnance by being co-mingled with their own smell and its theory applies with spaces. If i were to show this space that’s a shape of a square created and divided by the same concrete walls, it can be totally differentiated according to the person who live in.
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