Portfolio by Sungkyu Yang

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By Sungkyu Yang Sincerity for Human Beings

STATEMENT

Designing to truly satisfy people, not just for efficiency of industrial structure, is the direction he seeks and what he is interested in pursuing with his work. He realizes that our world has become more focused on efficiency than user satisfaction. Society has rapidly been industrialized since the Industrial Revolution, and the concepts of efficiency and profit according to an aspect of production became more mainstream. This flow has governed our society since Modernism. His goal as a designer is to foster moments of delight and satisfaction by putting something positive and beneficial into the world. This thinking is connected to social issues and shows sincerity for human beings. Designing is not just a process of making, but a creative process with a highly considered approach for people.

PURPOSE OF DESIGN

CONTENTS

SPATIAL STUDIES

DESIGN

Unit 18

The Relaxation

Emotions and Space

3 and 4

The Connection

Stool A & B

Dwelling in Outer Space

Coffee Dripper

Cubes in Space

The Moments

Installation 103

Peignot

Space 248

The New York Times

Spatial Studies > Unit 18

UNIT 18 Seton Hill, Baltimore Commercial and Residential 18 Housing Units 63,000 sft 2016

I suggest a new type of living space for single parent families. I believe that designing living spaces for specific types of people will be able to maximize their satisfaction. I question whether spaces where we live fit our needs. Single parent families have been increasing recently, and they have many financial and communication issues. They also tend to be isolated from society. Creating spaces to solve these issues is the purpose of my thesis. Many problems of single parent families are caused by the absence of communication between a parent and a child and among units of families, so I want to develop and maximize what I call “communication space” so that they can have a better life. According to a paper, ‘Effects of Stress and social Supports on Mother-Child Interactions in Single and Two - Parent Familes’, by Marsha Weinraub, single parents spend less time with their children and face more stressful life changes, so they tend to be more isolated and less consistent in their social contacts, less involved in organizations and parenting groups, and less supported emotionally and in their parenting roles. They also have communication issues between a parent and a child. How can we improve living environment for them? They also face a dilemma. They work long hours and have only a limited amount of time to divide between meeting their own emotional and recreational needs and those of their children. Choosing to spend too much of that limited and precious time with the child would leave the single parent feeling lonely, isolated, and frustrated and would perhaps increase her irritability toward the child. Also choosing to spend too much of that time with their friends would leave the single parent less attuned to their child’s needs and therefore less responsive to them.

Spatial Studies > Unit 18

SITE ANALYSIS The site is located between Seton Hill and Mount Vernon. The eastern boundary of the site is Howard Street which is characterized as commercial street. The west side of the site is 18 feet higher than the east side. Buildings nearby are 2 or 3 stories, and most of them are mixed-use buildings. There is Howards Park right next to the site. Linden Ave goes through the site from the North to the South and links West Monument Street with Druid Hill Ave. Light rail is available on Howard Street, and other transportations including bus and metro are also available near to the site. Therefore, the site location is good for single parent families in terms of easy access to transporations because it is good for children who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have cars.

Site Green Space Apartment Row House Mixed-Use Organization Transportation

Spatial Studies > Unit 18

For better communication, walls which have a function of dividing spaces are removed in each unit as a new type of housing. Removing walls in a house is a way of making a parent and a child see and meet each other more frequently, preserving their privacy by using a different level for each room.

Spatial Studies > Unit 18

COMMUNICATION SPACE Each unit shares outdoor dining space. Each dining space is also connected to otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s communication space, and this connection is a higher-level communication space where many units meet for recreation. This hierarchy of communication provides multiple connections for single parent families.

Spatial Studies > Emotions and Space

EMOTIONS AND SPACE College Building, Providence Creative Environment 2016

Understanding the relationship between emotions and space is the main point of my work. Emotions can have an influence on people’s activities, and space can also affect people’s emotions. Different functions and use for space like learning, sleeping, or social networking trigger different emotion at different places. On the contrary, emotions also trigger different use of space. For example, emotions such as sadness or sublimity have a positive influence on systematical learning activities. This is related to “depressive realism” which means that depressed people are more realistic and accurate (Bertels 2013). Knowing what spatial elements affect and provoke emotions and how to match emotions to a particular use of space are essential questions of my research.

Spatial Studies > Emotions and Space

The 5th floor corridor of College building is placed in a straight line and is divided into five sections by spatial

Spatial Studies > Emotions and Space

factors. Each section delivers different atmospheres to people and affects peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emotions differently. The main factors which divide space and make these changes are brightness and size of space. Therefore, making spaces that arouse such emotions as sadness or sublimity will have a positive influence on learning. These emotions get intensified by the transformation of light, scale and materials (by dimming the light and enlarging the scale). In my study, I use the corridor as a space where people need to go through to reach their particular places, and I believe that the corridor can be the platform that affects peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emotions at first hand. The amount of light and the contrast of larger space than human scale and small space are the main factors that I manipulated in order to intensify peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emotions because of the fact that using brightness and size of space are the main factors found in the existing condition.

Spatial Studies > Emotions and Space

Spatial Studies > The Connection

THE CONNECTION Providence, Rhode Island Adaptive Reuse Project 2017

Whereas mining structures - one of the most common examples of underground architectures - have become nostalgic symbols of a Western industrialized past, a different trend has been charactering the current architectural production: after the end of the Cold War, bunker, tunnels and ancient cisterns have been progressively turned into public attractions and have been absorbed into the official fabric of the city, being its spaces explored and colonized fo specific collective events. By re-emerging from an invisible past, these architectures work as active part of the citiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; infrastructure, in the same way as any conventional square, garden, or communal space. The site of the project is the combination of the East Side Railroad Tunnel with the Crook Point Bascule Bridge. Both the tunnel and the bridge belong to the same project, conceptualized at the beginning of the XX century, and based on the will to connect the Centre of Providence with the East Side. Both structures are nowadays abandoned and partially vandalized. Working on an integrated process of regeneration and dealing with a composite system of architectural signs allow to face the complexity of the urban dynamics, and at the same time, to elaborate a general strategy of adaptive reuse, that will combine different scales of intervention.

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Spatial Studies > The Connection

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Horizontal Operning / Urban context

Academic Lecture

Public Practice

Cafeteria

Lounge

Recording

Plan Drawing Workshop Sub Entrance

Main Entrance Storage

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Mechanical

Rest R

Auditorium

Program / Adaptive Reuse

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Recording Studio Lounge Practice Room Lecture Room

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Cafeteria Workshop Auditorium Restroom Storage Mechanical

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Spatial Studies > The Connection

The Connection (Symbolic connectivity)

Concert Hall (Crook Point Bascule Bridge)

Music Academy (East Side Railroad Tunnel)

Spatial Studies > The Connection

Spatial Studies > Dwelling in Outer Space

DWELLING IN OUTER SPACE Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Thesis Project Work In Progress 2018

Human beings have evolved an appreciation for beauty beginning with traits for sexual selection, and over millennia an appreciation for beauty has become inherent to human nature. In every place humans live, they look for beauty in their lives. Beauty is an inevitable element of life. As humans expand beyond the terrestrial, the ability to express beauty in our surroundings must come with us. It is a part of our being. Beauty, which makes people create more expressive artifacts, is the richness of expression and sensorial experiences.

One of the first places humans have lived outside of Earth is the International Space Station. The operation of the ISS as a space environment research laboratory is scheduled to end in 2024. The quality of life on the station is dehumanized because it was designed to be a laboratory, not a dwelling. Beauty, which forms part of the essence of dwelling, is missing. This thesis explores how to utilize the adaptive reuse potential of the ISS in microgravity for better quality of dwelling and how to develop more ideal human-spatial element interaction on the station by using beauty inherent in humanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nature. Dwelling includes various human actions such as sleeping, eating or moving. Of that, moving in microgravity functions in a whole different way compared to moving on Earth. I will focus on how interiority of the station can develop and interact with aspects of special moments involving movement in microgravity for better spatial experiences.

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International Space Station (Isometric Explosion)

Bottom Left : Side Elevation

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Spatial Studies > Dwelling in Outer Space

International Space Station

Launch Date : November 20, 1998 Orbit Height : 254 mi

Orbital Speed : 17,500 mph

Length : 239 ft 04

Width : 356 ft Height : 66 ft

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01. ZARYA (FGB) 02. PMA 03. UNITY(NODE1) International Space Station 04. ZVEZDA (SM) (Isometric SERVICE Explosion) MODULE 05. DESTINY U.S. LABORATORY 06. QUEST JOINT AIRLOCK 07. PIRS (PIER) DOCKING Module 08. S0 TRUSS 09. S1 - P1 TRUSS 10. S3/4 - P3/4 TRUSS 11. S5/6 - P5/6 TRUSS 12. SOLAR ARRAY

13. RADIATOR ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEM 14. RADIATOR (THERMAL CONTROL SYSTEM) 15. HARMONY(NODE2) International 16. COLUMBUS EUROPEAN (Isometric LAB E 17. JEM - PM (KIBO) JAPANESE LAB Space St International 18. ELM - PS (KIBO) Explosio (Isometric 19. JEM - RMS (KIBO) 20. POISK (MRM 2) MINI RESEARCH 21. TRANQUILITY(NODE3) 22. CUPOLA 23. RASSVET (MRM 1) MINI RESEARCH 24. PMM (PERMANENT MULTIPURPOSE) 25. Z - 1 TRUSS

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Spatial Studies > Dwelling in Outer Space

Materials

Node 1 Unity

Diameter : 14 ft

Length : 18 ft

Launch Date : December, 1998

Node 1’s six ports provide berthing connections to the Z1 Truss, U.S. Laboratory Module,

Airlock, Node 3 and PMA/FGB. In the summer of 2015, the Node 1 nadir port will be availableMaterials

Airlock, Node 3 and PMA/FGB. In the summer of 2015, the Node 1 nadir port will be available

as a second berthing port for visiting cargo vehicles.3

POWER DATA GRAPPLE FIXTURE (PDGF) FOR MANEUVERING BY REMOTE MANIPULATOR SYSTEM

NADIR DOCKING SYSTEM AND HATCH PORT FOR SOYUZ OR PROGRESS

REFUELING HYDRAULIC VALVES TRUNNION PIN FOR MOUNTING IN SPACE SHUTTLE

TRUNNION PIN FOR MOUNTING IN SPACE SHUTTLE

Columbus European Research Laboratory

Diameter : 14.7 ft

Length : 22.6 ft

Launch Date : February, 2008

The Columbus Research Laboratory is Eu-

rope’s largest contribution to the ISS. Columbus is a multifunctional pressurized laboratory

permanently attached to Node 2 of the ISS.3

Poisk Mini-Research Module 2 Diameter : 8.4 ft

INTERIOR CONTROL CONSOLE

Length : 16 ft Launch Date : November, 2009 INTERIOR ORLAN STORAGE

PRESSURE AND DEPOSIT MONITORING UNIT

Volume : 523 cubic feet

Poisk, also known as the MRM2, is almost identical to the Pirs Docking Compartment.

Towards the Earth

MOVABLE HANDRAIL

EVA HATCH 1

Poisk provides the capability for extravehicular activity (EVA) and servicing/refurbishing of the Russian Orlan spacesuits.3

EVA HATCH 2

HIGH-GAIN KURS ANTENNA

ATTITUDE CONTROL ANTENNA HIGH-GAIN KURS ANTENNA

DRAIN VALVE

WIDE-BEAM ANTENNA ZENITH DOCKING SYSTEM AND HATCH ENTRANCE TO SERVICE MODULE 3

DOCKING SYSTEM PROBE

FORGED/MACHINED ALUMINUM DOME

01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.

AIRFLOW VENT BODY MASS MEASUREMENT DEVICE CAMERA CAUTION AND WANING PANEL, CLOCK, AND MONITORS COMMUNICATIONS PANEL CONDENSATE WATER PROCESSOR CREW SLEEP STATION FORWARD DOCKING PORT FUSES GALLERY TABLE INTEGRATED CONTROL PANEL LIGHTING CONTROL PANELS MAINTENANCE BOX NADIR DOCKING PORT NAVIGATION SIGHTING STATION NIGHT-LIGHTS POWER DISTRIBUTION PANEL RECESSED CAVITY & VALVE PANEL SMOKE DETECTOR

20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29.

SOLID FUEL OXYGEN GENERATORS TORU RENDEZVOUS CONTROL STATION TORU SEAT TREADMILL & VIBRATION ISOLATION SYSTEM VELA ERGOMETER VENTILATION SCREEN VOZDUKH CONTROL PANEL WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPARTMENT ZENITH DOCKING PORT SOYUZ AND PROGRESS DOCKING PORT

01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.

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Destiny U.S. Laboratory CORNER STANDOFFS FOR

AIRFLOW AND PLUMBING CROSSOVER CORNER STANDOFFS FOR UTILITIES AND PLUMBING (4)

Diameter : 14 ft

RACK LOCATIONS (24)

UTILITIES AND PLUMBING (4)

Diameter : 14 ft

Length : 28 ft

Launch Date : February, 2001

Window : 1 (20 in)

RACK LOCATIONS (24)

Zvezda Service Module (SM) Diameter : 13.5 ft

Length : 43 ft

Launch Date : July, 2000

Windows : 14

Sleep Station : 2

Space Toilet : 1

Node 2 Harmony Diameter : 14 ft

Cupola

Diameter : 9.8 ft

The U.S. Laboratory Module, called Destiny, is the primary research laboratory for U.S. payHeight : 4.7 ft loads,2010 supporting a wide range of experiments Launch Date : February,

and studies contributing to health, safety, and quality of life for people all over the world.3

Diameter : 13.5 ft

Destiny U.S. Laboratory

AIRFLOW AND PLUMBING CROSSOVER

The U.S. Laboratory Module, called Destiny, is the primary research laboratory for U.S. payloads, supporting a wide range of experiments

Zvezda Service Module (SM)

FORGED/MACHINED ALUMINUM DOME

Windows : 7

Height : 4.7 ft Launch Date : February, 2010

and studies contributing to health, safety, and quality of life for people all over the world.3

Windows : 7

The Cupola (named after the raised observation deck on a railroad caboose) is a small module designed for the observation of operations outside the ISS such as robotic activities, the approach of vehicles, and extravehicular activity.3 HATCH AND BERTHING MECHANISM

contribution, providing early living quarters, life-support system, electrical power distribu-

system, and propulsion system.3

WINDOW ASSEMBLY (1 TOP AND 6 SIDE WINDOWS WITH FUSED SILICA AND BOROSILICATE GLASS PANES, WINDOW HEATERS, AND THERMISTORS)

The Cupola (named after the raised observation deck on a railroad caboose) is a small PAYLOAD DATA GRAPPLE module designed for the FIXTURE observation of opera(PDGF) tions outside the ISS such as robotic activities, the approach of vehicles, and extravehicular activity.3

PAYLOAD DATA GRAPPLE FIXTURE (PDGF)

Length : 22 ft Launch Date : October, 2007 Sleep Stations : 4

Node 2 provides crew quarters for 4 crew members as well as vital functional resources for the operation of the connected elements, namely the conversion and distribution of the electrical power, heating, cooling resources from the ISS Integrated Truss, and support of the data and video exchange with the ground and the rest of the ISS.3

HATCH AND BERTHING MECHANISM ENDCONE

contribution, providing early living quarters, life-support system, electrical power distribu-

WINDOW ASSEMBLY (1 TOP AND 6 SIDE WINDOWS WITH FUSED SILICA AND BOROSILICATE GLASS PANES, WINDOW HEATERS, AND THERMISTORS)

ENDCONE

GPS ANTENNAS

EXPERIMENT LOGISTICS MODULE PRESSURIZED SECTION (ELM-PS)

Node 3 Tranquility

EXPERIMENT LOGISTICS MODULE PRESSURIZED SECTION (ELM-PS)

Diameter : 14 ft JAPANESE EXPERIMENT MODULE AVIONICS RACK REMOTE MANIPULATOR SYSTEM (JEM-RMS)

AVIONICS RACK

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BATTERY STOWAGE ASSEMBLY

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BATTERY CHARGING ASSEMBLY

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CABIN AIR RACK POWER SUPPLY ASSEMBLY

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BATTERY STOWAGE ASSEMBLY

IN-FLIGHT REFILL UNIT

EXTRAVEHICULAR MOBILITY UNIT (EMU) WATER RECHARGE BAG

MAIN ARM

LIGHT

JAPANESE EXPERIMENT EXPERIMENT LOGISTICS MODULE PRESSURIZED MODULE EXPOSED MODULE (JEM-PM) SECTION (ELM-ES)

EXPERIMENT LOGISTICS MODULE EXPOSED SECTION (ELM-ES) LIGHT

DON/DOFF ASSEMBLY

EXPOSED FACILITY (EF)

TRUNNION

EF VIEWING FACILITY

EF BERTHING MECHANISM

COMMON BERTHING MECHANISM AND NODE HATCH INTRAVEHICULAR HATCH EVA HATCH

Kibo EF BERTHING MECHANISM Japanese Laboratory

Diameter : 14.4 ft (PM & ELM-PS) EF BUS UNITS Length : 36.7 ft (PM) / 12 ft (ELM-PS)

Quest Joint Airlock

INTRAVEHICULAR HATCH

Diameter : 13.1 ft Launch Date : July, 2001

The Quest Airlock is a pressurized space station module consisting of two compartments attached end-to-end by a connecting bulkhead and hatch.3

FINE ARM STAGE

Launch Date : July, 2009

Diameter : 13.1 ft

EVA HATCH

Length : 18 ft

FINE ARM STAGE

Kibo Japanese Laboratory

INTERIOR Length : 36.7 ft (PM) / 12 ft (ELM-PS) ORLAN Launch Date : July, 2009 STORAGE

Window : 1

Kibo was designed and developed with a view

Length : 18 ft EF

Launch Date : July, 2001

The Quest Airlock is a pressurized space station module consisting of EXPERIMENTS two compartINTERORBIT COMMUNICATIONS ments attached end-to-end by a connecting SYSTEM (ICS) bulkhead and hatch.3

orbit. Thus, as a part of the ISS, Kibo provides extensive opportunities for utilization of the space environment performing experimenEXPERIMENTS tal activities. Resources necessary for Kibo’s INTERORBIT COMMUNICATIONS on-orbit operation, such as air, power, data, SYSTEM (ICS)

orbit. Thus, as a part of the ISS, Kibo provides extensive opportunities for utilization of the NADIR DOCKING SYSTEM AND HATCH space environment performing experimenPORT FOR SOYUZ OR PROGRESS tal activities. Resources necessary for Kibo’s on-orbit operation, such as air, power, data,

Pirs (Pier) Docking Compartment (DC)

Length : 16 ft

Diameter : 8.4 ft DRAIN VALVE

Length : 16 ft

Launch Date : September, 2001 Volume : 459 cubic feet

Launch Date : September, 2001 ATTITUDE CONTROL ANTENNA

Volume : 459 cubic feet

HIGH-GAIN KURS ANTENNA

Pirs serves as a docking port for the Russian Segment. Pirs also provides the capability for

HIGH-GAIN KURS ANTENNA

Pirs serves as a docking port for the Russian Segment. Pirs also provides the capability for

EVA HATCH 2

extravehicular activity (EVA) using Russian Orlan spacesuits and provides systems for servicing and refurbishing of the spacesuits.

EVA HATCH 2

extravehicular activity (EVA) using Russian Orlan spacesuits and provides systems for servicing and refurbishing of the spacesuits.

EVA HATCH 1 MOVABLE HANDRAIL

MOVABLE HANDRAIL

The nadir Docking System on Pirs provides a port for the docking of Soyuz and Progress

Diameter : 14.4 ft (PM & ELM-PS)

Window : 1

segment of the ISS.3

HIGH-GAIN KURS ANTENNA ATTITUDE CONTROL ANTENNA

EVA HATCH 1

Launch Date : February, 2010

WIDE-BEAM ANTENNA

Diameter : 8.4 ft DRAIN VALVE

HIGH-GAIN KURS ANTENNA

EXPOSED FACILITY (EF)

EF VIEWING FACILITY

Pirs (Pier) Docking Compartment (DC)

BERTHED TO NODE 2

JAPANESE EXPERIMENT MODULE PRESSURIZED MODULE (JEM-PM)

TRUNNION

EF BUS UNITS COMMON BERTHING MECHANISM AND NODE HATCH

WINDOW BERTHED TO NODE 2 PAYLOAD AIRLOCK

SMALL FINE ARM

PAYLOAD AIRLOCK

Length : 22 ft Space Toilet : 1

ZENITH DOCKING SYSTEM AND HATCH ENTRANCE TO SEVICE MODULE

WIDE-BEAM ANTENNA

BATTERY CHARGING ASSEMBLY

IN-FLIGHT REFILL UNIT

DON/DOFF ASSEMBLY

WINDOW

CABIN AIR RACK

CREW

DOCKING SYSTEM PROBE

ZENITH DOCKING SYSTEM AND HATCH ENTRANCE TO SEVICE MODULE

CABIN AIR VENT

IPMEN

POWER SUPPLY ASSEMBLY

DOCKING SYSTEM PROBE

JAPANESE EXPERIMENT MODULE REMOTE MANIPULATOR SYSTEM (JEM-RMS)

PRESSURE AND DEPOSIT INTERIOR ORLAN MONITORING UNIT Russian STORAGE

INTERIOR CONTROL CONSOLE

NADIR DOCKING SYSTEM AND HATCH REFUELING PORT FOR SOYUZ OR HYDRAULIC VALVES PROGRESS

Multi-Purpose Logistic Module arrives.3

Node 3 accommodates ISS air revitalization, oxygen generation, carbon dioxide removal and water recovery systems. It also contains the bathroom for the crew hygiene and exercising equipment such as a treadmill and a weight-lifting device.3

The nadir Docking System on Pirs provides a port for the docking of Soyuz and Progress PRESSURE AND DEPOSIT MONITORING UNIT

Russian Multi-Purpose Logistic Module arrives.3

INTERIOR CONTROL CONSOLE

REFUELING HYDRAULIC VALVES

segment of the ISS.3

Spatial Studies > Dwelling in Outer Space

EXISTING SITE MODEL Scale : 1/8” = 1’-0”

The purpose of the site model is to understand the condition of interior space on the station. All the interior of each module is linear and square. Therefore, it is hard for people to have a variety of spatial experiences up there. The monotonous environment causes boring and tedious life.

Spatial Studies > Dwelling in Outer Space

PROGRAM Program : Habitable Laboratory Pressurized Volume : 32,333 cubic feet Habitable Volume : 13,696 cubic feet Maximum Occupancy : 6 people (up to 12) Windows : 23 (4 modules) Sleep Stations : 6 (2 modules) Space Toilet : 2

Habitable Laboratory

Maximum Occupancy

Pressurized Volume 32,333 cubic feet

Laboratory / Experiment Module (Pressurized Module) Support Module (Pressurized Module) Docking Module / Airlock / Storage (Pressurized Module) Habitable Volume 13,696 cubic feet

Solar Arrays Integrated Truss Structure (ITS)

Spatial Studies > Dwelling in Outer Space

DESIGN CONCEPT In Jean-Paul Sartre’s book, “Being and Nothingness”, he asserts that individual’s existence precedes individual’s essence, while the essence of tools precedes existence. In dwelling as a phenomenon of human actions, essence precedes existence.13 When the essence is absent, we feel it is dehumanized. Dwelling created by human’s existence is connected to the essence of human beings. According to Denis Dutton, an American philosopher, he explains that beauty is human’s nature handed down from our ancient ancestors based on Darwin’s theory of evolution.14 Human beings have experienced beauty because of the sexual selection, which makes people create more interesting and expressive artifacts. Beauty from the evolutionary point of view and a philosophical perspective is the richness of expression and sensorial experiences.

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Spatial Studies > Dwelling in Outer Space

PROGRAM ANALYSIS

Beauty from Openings

Beauty from Nature

Beauty for Diversity 10

Spatial Studies > Cubes In Space

CUBES IN SPACE Study of Spatial Elements Paper, Wood, Plaster, and Metal 2016

This study of materials begins with paper and understanding the material properties as a surface or plane. Compare architects today to those practicing in earlier periods and we are at a disadvantage in terms of hands on knowledge of materials. Consider that Michelangelo sculpted for fifty years before setting out to design the facade for St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basilica in Rome - a half century of wisdom and understanding regarding the material he would employ in one of his most significant architectural works. As Blaine Brownell states, the architect of today is removed from the materials with which he builds. It is no longer the job of the architect to make buildings. We now create information about the making of buildings, and our hands-on understanding of the materials we employ may be limited more today than possibly any time in the history of our profession. This study focuses on the basic materials that architects use to make both representational models as well as the built environment of today. This is not only the study of materials, but also the study of spatial elements.

Spatial Studies > Cubes In Space

Spatial Studies > Installation 103

INSTALLATION 103 CIT Building, Providence Installation Art 2016

Spatial Studies > Installation 103

Spatial Studies > Space 248

SPACE 248 RISD Museum, Providence Installation Art 2016

Spatial Studies > Space 248

Design > The Relaxation

THE RELAXATION Post-Human Factors Paper and Grasshopper 2017

Any notion of architecture as a design artifact is preceded by an understanding of ourselves as the predominant spatial referent. Architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s human antecedent, a collection of physiological, cognitive, and social definitions, is already embedded in any act of creation, phenomenology of experience, or body of knowledge we engage or produce. However, with the mergence of ecology metaphors to contextualize the inter-connectivity of humans and non-humans alike at a multiplicity of scales, along with the development of technologies that challenge our understanding of autonomy, the degree to which humans occupy the a priori position in the design process, has been called into question. This de-centering of humanity as the dominant if not sole arbiter of meaning, measure of relevance, or generator of value that has created a post-humanist milieu for architects and designers. Yet, we are always tethered to a anthropocentric state of being. How do designers reconcile these two oppositional imperatives within design thinking? What defines a technology and an ecology? What are the historical relationships between humans and technologies? And, how do these relationships impacted the built environment? This project examines the changing definitions of human and the manifestation of human-technological conditions through spatial and artifactual production in order to design an apparatus for exploring embodiment of artifacts.

Design > The Relaxation

Design > 3 and 4

3 and 4 Steel Pipe with LED Furniture 2017

Design > Stool A & B

STOOL A Oak and Pine 20 x 10.5 x 15 inches 2014

I would like to make furniture considered for user satisfaction. People almost always bring their belongings when they go out. Therefore, they will need space to put their luggage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stool Aâ&#x20AC;? is designed to have a 20 inch seat which is wider than normal stools.

Design > Stool A & B

STOOL B Oak and Walnut 17.5 x 6 x 6 inches

This stool is made of oak and walnut. What I focused on was to find a good combination between oak and walnut. I created angular legs and used walnut at the middle of the seat to visually reinforce the stability.

2014

COFFEE DRIPPER Oak

This coffee dripper has many open areas to lessen weight. It is made of

Design > Coffee Dripper

oak which is not that light, but strong enough.

8 x 7.5 x 3 inches 2014

Design > The Moments

THE MOMENTS Experimental Book 8.5 x 5.5 inches 2015

The purpose of this experimental project is to change the characteristic of photograph. Photography is a medium that people can’t interact with. Books are also similar to photograph, but hypertext changed the role of books. “The Moments” is a photographic version of hypertext.

Design > The Moments

It allows people to interact with photograph by making them express their ideas on the pictures. People can draw or write on the ripped parts of pictures and re-create a new story. The Moments gives people a chance of imaging a new world with their perspectives and changes the role of the photograph.

Design > The Moments

Design > Peignot

PEIGNOT Poster 16.5 x 23 inches 2014

It is a poster to introduce the font called Peignot designed by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre in 1937. He is an artist of the Art Deco period. This poster shows not only the design language and the expressive characteristics of Cassandre, but also features of Peignot.

Design > The New York Times

THE NEW YORK TIMES Editorial Design Web-Based 2014

In a digital, mass-market age, the artisanal has plenty of cachet and the price tag to go with it.Â But what of the artisanal tennis stroke, the weird and not necessarily wondrous shot that looks homespun instead of factory made?Â Many of us who grew up playing and watching the game hold these strokes close, perhaps because, as hackers, we can see our reflection in them in a way that we never will as we take in the windtunnel-ready perfection of a Roger Federer forehand or a Serena...

Thank you for having time to check my portfolio. Hope you have a good day.

Sincerely, Sungkyu Yang