430 DAYS SYLVIA KIM ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
SYLVIA KIM
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 430 DAYS Clemson Graduate School of Architecture
430 DAYS
This portfolio captures projects throughout the 430 days of countless hours spent in studio at Clemson, Genoa, and Charleston while obtaining Masters of Architecture degree. Each displaying their own color and style as learning occurred not just from books...
Day 348
Blue Hut
Day 332
Concrete Manifesto
Day 220
Genoa Italy
Day 114
Rooftops of Marseille
Day 73
Pencil Box
Day 1
The Beginning
projects 2008-2011
112-220_days 36 Genoa Italy
28-111_days 44 Charleston SC 1-27_days 54 Charleston SC Future is On the Table
N. Charleston Intermodal Facility
Piazza Campetto Apt. Complex
GSP Airport Renovation
GAEP Homeless Center
328-430_days 10 Greenville SC 221-327_days 24 Greenville SC
Day 348
My last semester at Clemson was full of colors as I navigate through my last days of school with exploration of color rendering with markers and color pencils.
GREENVILLE SC
Sylvia Kim
GAEP Homeless center
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GAEP as a canvas
GAEP is a program where arts embraces the homeless families that will be staying at the homeless center. There will be painting, music, dancing and sculpting studios that enhances the homeless to find their song through exploration of the arts. GAEP also gives opportunity for the community to interact with the homeless through the exhibition space which will be open daily to the public and the auditorium which connects various groups. The homeless will find themselves identified as artist and will learn to free themselves from the hunger that exists in every soul whether young or old.
328-430_days GAEP Homeless Center ARCH 892 Comprehensive Studio Harding_Schwennsen_Wilkerson
GREENVILLE SC
“I probably have a song in me somewhere.” Howard Cook, homeless artist
Sylvia Kim
GAEP Homeless center
The main oor of the homeless center will be a free mix space of the arts and the homeless classrooms. The freedom of the steel frame construction makes the space a large open space with chairs and movable walls, making possible the interaction of the different arts and the people.
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1. THE GLASS BOX The Homeless
2. THE WOODEN LOUVERS The Shelter
3. THE AUDITORIUM The Arts
4. GAEP Conversation between the Homless and the Arts
Greenville SC From our initial site studies on homelessness in Greenville South Carolina, we found a need to provide for a family housing homeless assistance center. The site has a strong potential to connect the surrounding assistance centers and become the focal point that instills the efforts of City of Greenville to serve its’ homeless and improvised citizens.
GREENVILLE SC
Sylvia Kim
GAEP Homeless center
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massing
During the Schematic Design stage of the Project, initial massing studies were done with the site. With North Calhoun Road being the street front where urban activity can occur, the emphasis was placed on giving the street front that any city deserves. Concurrently, many massing studies were accomplished in reference with the existing A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School. With the overhanging structure conversing directly with our site, the consideration of the surrounding architecture was crucial in the form of the homeless center. As the auditorium will be an anchoring program that serves as the connector for the community, the form of the auditorium will be crucial in the overall design of the homeless center.
947'-0"
955'-0"
980'-0"
960'-0"
966'-0"
GREENVILLE SC
HOUSING LEVEL Homeless Family Housing Administrative OfďŹ ces Gallery Space
GROUND LEVEL Art and Homeless Classrooms Auditorium
Sylvia Kim
GAEP Homeless center
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Original Geometry
The Canvas
Housing Units
Connection + Grid
The main structure is covered by the curved steel girder that provides natural ventilation for the movable facade on the ground level as well to provide shade and optimize use of less energy through its’ shading. The louvers serve to decorate the simple structure and give a fun twist to the Miesian structure that is hidden inside the envelope of the clean wooden louvers.
GREENVILLE SC
Sylvia Kim
GAEP Homeless center
Envelope - wood + metal
Skeleton - steel frames
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steel
The structure for the GAEP Homeless Center borrows from Miesian’s clean architectural language of celebration of steel beams and girders. The main structure of the center consists of steel beams and girders that allows for free open space on the ground level for the interaction of homeless and the community; the arts and the people; and the music and painting.
Auditorium Entrance
GREENVILLE SC
Night View
Sylvia Kim
Gallery Space
Art + Homeless Classrooms
GAEP Homeless center
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Day 332
Digging up ideas and turning page after page from my memories, I remembered my moment with Tadao Ando’s concrete wall and slowly realize my definition of design. Design is for those of us whom take time to layout the exposed tie holes on a concrete wall. Design is appreciation for remembering every little humble detail that are overlooked in our daily lives. Design is a vision that survives time. -Design Manifesto Board
“Flight is Freedom in its purest form.” - Gary Claude Stoker
GREENVILLE SC
Sylvia Kim
GSP Airport Renovation
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land to air
The building is designed to remedy the visual and physical disconnections of the existing airport. The transparency of the space enhances the passengers’ experience providing strong visual connections throughout the transition from land side to air side. The large terminal not only physically connects the land side of the airport with the air side, but also physically connects the two concourses which are currently separated. All of the main program spaces are located within the new open space for efďŹ ciency and ease of access. Passengers and visitors can make visual connections to all of the main program spaces from any one point in the building.
221-327_days GSP Airport Renovation ARCH 893 Synthesis Studio Harding_Heine_Sill
GREENVILLE SC
Sylvia Kim
GSP Airport Renovation
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visual connection
The airport is the glass box, which visually connects all the functions as you enter the airport, as the transparency of the glass box blurs the boundary from land to sky and celebrates ight.
concept images perspectives drop-off pick-off
GREENVILLE SC
Sylvia Kim
GSP Airport Renovation
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flight idolized
One of the strengths we noticed that was very beautiful and unique to existing GSP airport was the natural surroundings with the driveway to the airport lined up with the row of trees and the fountain. The fountain is not utilized currently but at the time when the GSP airport was built in the 60s, the nature, the driveway, and the garden was a tool for Greenville to celebrate its’ ideals of ight.
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J. Concessions K. Security Screening L. Baggage Claim M. Admin. Offices
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GREENVILLE SC
Sylvia Kim
GSP Airport Renovation
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1 GROUND C. Drop-Off Area D. Pick Up Area E. Ticketing F. Airline Offices G. Baggage Makeup H. Fan Rooms
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METAL COPING
NSULATING GLASS
4' - 4" 2' - 4"
1/4" SINGLE PANE TEMPERED GLASS ROOF
3' DIAMETER RETURN DUCTWORK ANCHORED AND BOLTED TO TRUSS
8' - 9"
TS PLACED ACROSS F FOR NATURAL AIR VENTILATION WEEN DOUBLE SKIN FACADE
15' - 8"
BEAMS SUPPORTING ERS AND MULLIONS
COLUMN AND TRUSS BEYOND 1' DIAMETER STEEL TUBE COLUMN EXTENDING ABOVE WOOD COLUMN 2' DIAMETER WOOD COLUMN WITH STEEL TUBE COLUMN AT CORE
8' - 9"
3' - 3"
8' - 9"
D AND STEEL CABLE HYBRID TRUSS
GREENVILLE SC
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Sylvia Kim
GSP Airport Renovation
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mimicking the natural surrounding Building structure consists of a regular grid of columns that support a grid of Fink trusses. The columns are a composite of square steel tube members and wood. The Fink trusses are also a composite of glue laminated wood chord and vertical web members and steel diagonal web members. Steel cross bracing occurs on the roof, as well as in key locations along the façade. Main material for the primary structure of wood was used to create a softer environment for the passengers and visitors as the airport is imitating its’ natural surrounding.
Day 220
Last Day in Genoa and farewell to the steps that I took so many times to the villa on the top. So many great masterpieces visited and learned in Europe as my study abroad experience will be forever indelible in my memory as I grew and matured through traveling as a student of architecture.
GENOA ITALY
Sylvia Kim
Piazza Campetto Apt. Complex
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the void between
Piazza Campetto Apt. Complex is a direct derivative of the characteristics of Genoa and its’ style. Genoa’s colorful facades, narrow alleyways, and the unknown mystery it imparts on its’ visitors has created the shift, break, and the void in our project which serves as the main concept. The existing form of our site is carved out to make “little Genoa” within the bigger urban context, creating an icon for the city and defining what it represents.
112-220_days Piazza Campetto Apt. Complex ARCH 850 Genoa Design Studio Rocco_Rocca_Sill
Void Shift on late ral axis
Hinge and Rotation
Concept
THE EVOLUTION AND MORPHOLOGY OF THE EXISTING FORM Form 1 Existing
GENOA ITALY
Form
Form 2Shift The
Form 3in Form Breaking/Void
Form 4 The Hinge/Rotation
Sylvia Kim
Piazza Campetto Apt. Complex
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alleyways of genoa The site is intentionally cut in half to create the similar narrow alleyway that Genoa displays in its’ city. The void then is filled with people as it serves as the circulation for the apartment.
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GENOA ITALY
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Sylvia Kim
Piazza Campetto Apt. Complex
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Day 114
On my first weekend trip away from Genoa, I visited the city of Marseille where Le Corbusier and Baguettes decorated the city. There was also the rooftops of Marseille that caught my attention in which my ink left its’ mark on my sketch book.
CHARLESTON SC
Sylvia Kim
N. Charleston Intermodal Facility
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urban planning
By building civic connections that strengthen the public realm, this project can be a generator for cohesive urban development in North Charleston. Collaborative urban planning master plan sketches, drawings, perspectives, and renderings leading up to the final client review on a new intermodal facility for the City of North Charleston.
28-111_days N. Charleston Intermodal Facility ARCH 852 Charleston Studio U/V Huff_Miller
CHARLESTON SC
Sylvia Kim
N. Charleston Intermodal Facility
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Charleston SC Methodologies that were applied during the initial phase of the project were background research, including North Charleston orientation, maps, site visit, and the initial client meeting. Secondly, issues of the site, program, and North Charleston’s civic identity were investigated as we produced a set of principles that will eventually guide our project until the ďŹ nal Client meeting with the City of Charleston.
CHARLESTON SC
Sylvia Kim
N. Charleston Intermodal Facility
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site strategies
Final design proposals for the site; perspectives and site plans in color markers. These strategies aim to make the intermodal center into a green urban area for the City of North Charleston.
Design Principles
P1. Use density of development as well as diversity of scale and function to create a vibrant experience
P2. Promote the use of public transportation through convenient physical access and clear visual connections
CHARLESTON SC
Sylvia Kim
N. Charleston Intermodal Facility
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P3. Provide connection to the urban fabric of North Charleston
P4. Include inhabitable green spaces that reinforce the civic environment
Day 73
The wooden pencil/marker case on the left was my final project in the woodworking class during my semester in Charleston. My box was a simple functional pencil/marker case with my initials on the top. I learned the importance of construction as Peter Zumthor quotes, “I believe that the real core of all architectural work lies in the act of construction.� Thinking Architecture.
CHARLESTON SC
Sylvia Kim
Future is On The Table
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collaboration thru arts
The Future is on the Table is the culmination of a five-year community art collaboration that began in 2003 when Gallimard and Mauclet sent 56 handmade three-legged stools as gifts to artists around the world. Its’ goal is to create an open dialogue around the metaphorical table referenced by the title of the project. This is a table around which the local community, as part of the global community, can gather to share ideas, discuss problems, and contemplate the future of our world. The purpose of The Future is on the Table is to invite people to this table, to use art as a means to create community dialogue, encourage activism and carry the energy of the project to the future.
1-27_days Future is On The Table ARCH 852 Charleston Studio U/V Huff_Miller
the future is on the table 09.0
key plan 1/8” = 1’-0” N
second floor plan 1/2” = 1’-0” N
CHARLESTON SC
Sylvia Kim
Future is On The Table
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The Future is On the Table Flier
Gallimard and Mauclet invited the CAC.C to be part of their exhibition at the City Gallery when they realized an architectural limitation in the space. Afraid that visitors entering at ground level would not be drawn up and into the works on the second floor, they asked that the CAC.C design and build a “visual bridge” moving diagonally and vertically through the main two-story space. On further reflection, they asked that we take melting water from an installation on the upper level and, moving it down the diagonal structure, deposit it on a collector on the main floor that, after hours, can be used to restock the ice maker.
design production installation presentation
The group of 14 students all with different background collaborated to make this art installation possible. With the theme that not all people in the world gets clean water, we had the phrase, “For 1/4 people the glass is never full.” We were each divided into three groups, the screw group, transporter group, and the bottom piece group. I took part in the last group--the bottom piece group.
design
CHARLESTON SC
Sylvia Kim
Future is On The Table
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These few pages depicting stages of design, production, installation, and presentation will be storied with photos of what went on for the 27 days the fabrication came alive.
CHARLESTON SC
Sylvia Kim
Future is On The Table
production
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installation
CHARLESTON SC
Sylvia Kim
Future is On The Table
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presentation CHARLESTON SC
Sylvia Kim
Future is On The Table
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Day 1
I would like to end my portfolio remembering the day I moved into the apartment in Charleston SC at the beginning of my graduate school. I vividly remember parking my car in the driveway, under the humid weather and feeling good to be moving into one of the Charlestonian townhouses painted in pink. Everything was new and different and I felt like a girl learning to bike for the first time. Now I am a month away from graduation and would like to make this another beginning into the professional world, as I start again as a new person entering the work force. Knowing that my Day 1 will also begin for the firm I will be working and creating architecture.