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Thomas Byung Kim
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Secondary Advisors: Daniele Profeta Jonathan Louie
Dedicated to mother and father, for their unrelenting love and infinite support. Thank you for the wisdom, courage and strength.
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Dedication
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& to all of my friends and family whom keep the gears for me churning in the wee hours of the morning.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction Research
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Contention & Analysis
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Intervention
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Sources & Bibliography
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Preface
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“Monuments are human landmarks which men have created as symbols for their ideals, for their aims, and for their actions. They are intended to outlive the period which originated them, and constitute a heritage for future generations. As such, they form a link between the past and the future.”
Since the earliest documentation of civilized society in the history of the human race, it is apparent, our desire and impulse to create symbols in the form of monuments, to remind future generations of the achievements, milestones, deaths and events that occured in the memory of a culture. The most important aspect of a monument is for its ability to create dialogue, many years past its inception, to become timeless in a way. However, it becomes quite hard to do this as the structures we build are so tied to sociological, political biases of the time of construction. As societies progress and/or digress, the monuments we constructed to comemmorate those very ideals go hand in hand.
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Sert, Josep Lluis, Fernand Leger, and Siegfried Giedion. “Nine Points of Monumentality.” Harvard Architecture Review, 1943.
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Introduction
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We have always used monuments as a way to express our ideals, through symbolic connections such as the Eiffel Tower or the Arch of Titus. Every period in time has erected symbols in the form of monuments. The demand for monumentality cannot in the long run, be suppressed, as it will find an outlet at all costs.
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Eiffel Tower in Paris, France Photograph by Thomas Kim
To begin the research, the focus had to be narrowed down using the definition given in the previous page by Siegfried Giedion. This thesis will examine monuments as case study to strictly view them through symbolic, experiential and programmatic (if relevant) lenses. Investigating whether their singular connection of past, present and future makes sense in their design and construction. We have witnessed in contemporary culture, the quickly changing ideologies of countries also changed their views toward the monuments that their predecessors have erected. An example of this is in Baghdad, Iraq, in Firdos Square, 2003, when the statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled as a symbolic end to the Battle of Baghdad. Again in 2017, as huge topics of discussion arose when monuments built in the Jim Crow era (1877 - 1954) in the United States, were being removed in various states as their symbolic representation no longer verified the culture and identity of the United States of America.
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The downfall of Saddam Hussein by The New York Times Savage, Kirk. “The Past in the Present.� Harvard Design Magazine, 1999.
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The question arises then, how does one design a monument that can transcend time and obsolescence in meaning? What could remain relative to us even as the pace of change in modern society gets faster and faster? In an attempt to monumentalize a perpetually relevant structure that cannot become obsolete in meaning, this thesis proposes to erect a monument to the living. This was chosen for the reason of detaching the meaning of the monument from sociological and political connections, and choosing something general, such as living. The idea of mortality is relevant to everybody and anybody, not constricted by social class, race & ethnicity and culture. By analyzing traditional & contemporary ideas of symbolism, visual expression and program, the thesis will also move towards creating a monument that plays an active role in our society. The focus will be on creating the singular connection between the past, present and future in a meaningful way that will manifest itself in program, form and experience.
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Introduction
fig. 01 : conceptual collage, thomas kim, 2017
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RESEARCH
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Giedion’s Critique Architectural critic Siegfried Giedion claimed that, as a result of pursuing rational utility and relevance, architects of the modern movement devalued monumentality by rejecting the past’s models. Through this critique, he claims that the Eiffel Tower is the only successful monument of this period, and rightfully so. The Eiffel Tower was realized as the symbol of the Exposition Universelle in 1889, to stand in the middle of the Champ de Mars. The entire event was held as a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution, when the monarchy was destroyed. Built in order to celebrate the human achievements and technological advancements to date, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure built on Earth at the time of its construction. The project went on to inspire many other structures until its dethroning in 1928 when the Chrysler Building in New York City stood taller. The Eiffel Tower hence creates a dialogue between the past, present and future, by symbolizing the memory of ending the monarchy, the innovations at the time, and the inspiration for future structures.
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Giedion, Siegfried. “The Need For a New Monumentality.” New Architecture and City Planning, 1944, 549-69.
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Liberty leading the people Eugene Delacroix, 1830
Photograph of Eiffel Tower Thomas Kim, 2015
Photograph of Chrysler Building The New York Times, 1928
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Pseudo-Monument A great example of the devalued monuments that Giedion remarks on stands in Boston, Massachusetts as a monument to the late president, John F. Kennedy. Standing sixteen feet tall, made up of bronze, the monument, while abstract and vague in form, claims a general association to John F. Kennedy via a plaque on the ground. Thermopylae Dimitri Hadzi, 1966
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Thermopylae Intervened Thomas Kim, 2017
Plaque at Thermopylae “Inspired by ‘Profiles in Courage’ and the brilliant war record of president John F. Kennedy. Thoroughly symbolic in its abstract shapes, basically organic in form, the heavy forms contrast with thin, solid with open, vertical with horizontal, and round with angular. Through the effect of the sun, rain, and snow on the sculpture the viewer is provided with everchanging visual and emotional experiences.” Dimitri Hadzi, 1966
The disconnect in symbol to meaning loses the historical context, and viewers are set free in imagination and interpretation. It fails to be a productive monument that is relevant to the commemoration of history.
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Critique on the critique The nine points on monumentality was written in 1944 however, and the critiques made in the excerpts became obsolete and untrue as innovations in monumentality were made by modernists and post-modernists in the decades to come. A great example of this can be seen in Giuseppe Terragni’s Danteum. The monument is dedicated to Dante Alighieri, the great Italian poet and writer of the famous Divine Comedy. Experience becomes the main driver of the monument as viewers experience the literature in its physical manifestations, cleverly designed by the architect. Drawing of Danteum Giuseppe Terragni, 1938
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The project heavily emphasizes the journey as a linear progression of circulation. The viewer is introduced to an open air courtyard at the beginning of their journey, only to be confronted by a dense field of columns and dimensions dictated by the philosophical constructions of the divine comedy. Danteum Exterior Axon Thomas Kim, 2017
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By decisively creating spaces that inflict feeling or emotion based upon the sequences of the divine comedy purgatory, inferno, paradise - he creates narrative, through space-making and experience.
Danteum Exploded Axon Thomas Kim, 2017
3D video walkthrough from Lorenzo Russo, YouTube
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Inferno Danteum Exterior Axon Thomas Kim, 2017
3D video walkthrough from Lorenzo Russo, YouTube
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Purgatory Danteum Exploded Axon Thomas Kim, 2017
3D video walkthrough from Lorenzo Russo, YouTube
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Paradise Danteum Exterior Axon Thomas Kim, 2017
3D video walkthrough from Lorenzo Russo, YouTube
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Context The project’s location also creates dialogue between the fascist ideology at the time of design, and its adjacency to the Colosseum was a metaphor of the difference between the modern will of the regime, and the ruins of the past. Terragni creates the link between past, present and future by leaving an important heritate of literature and of Italian history to the future, in the form of the Danteum.
Danteum and its context, Thomas Kim, 2017
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Figurative Form The Vietnam War Memorial by Maya Lin also realizes the definition of monument successfully, as part of the post-modern era’s interpretation of monument. Through figurative, abstract form that relates to the past, present and future, Lin creates a beautiful and harmonious design that does not necessarily echo the message of celebration of victory, but rather reminds us of the unfortunate and violent implications of war through symbolism.
Painting of Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Maya Lin, 1982
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Context The monument functioned on a larger scale through its axes’ alignment with the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, two monuments that represent founding ideals of the United States that are extremely important. Axonometric Drawing of the memorial, Thomas Kim, 2017
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The Gash The design, the gash, which was heavilty criticized during its inception, re-focused the course of American monumentality through the renewal of traditional monumentality’s form and conceptual themes. Axonometric Drawing of the memorial, Thomas Kim, 2017
Aerial photo of the memorial, Maya Lin Studio / Pace Gallery
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Timeline Names written in chronoological order remind us of the harsh losses of war.
Axonometric Drawing of the memorial, Thomas Kim, 2017
Photograph of Memorial Wall Names, Flickr, 2014
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Self-Reflection The mirrored surfaces of the dark stone creates an internal dialogue and a profound personal transaction. While linking the past to the present by creating moments of engagement with the monument itself on a symbolic level, Lin simultaneously teaches us the cautionary and traumatic rationalizations of war. The monument urges one to look ahead to the future, in attempts to possibly prevent another. Axonometric Drawing of the memorial, Thomas Kim, 2017
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Photograph of reflection at the wall, date taken unknown.
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Contention
CONTENTION
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Contention
Architectural Provocation As Mies emphasized, “we want to open ourselves to life and seize it. Life is what matters in all the fullness of its spiritual and concrete relations.”
Luciana Fornari Colombo. What is life? Exploring Mies van der Rohe’s concept of architecture as a life process, The Journal of Architecture.
Much like the analysis of Terragni and Lin’s monuments, the main driver of the project will be the close study of how materiality, experience and simple geometric form can combine to add complexity. The concept of monument will be derived as an experiential structure, much like Terragni and Lin’s work. However, by representing something as banal as living, the project will detach itself from ideological or sociological relations that are present in monuments around the world. Conceptual collage, Thomas Kim, 2017
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Intervention Site Hudson Yards will become the site of intervention, as the location provides a dense urban fabric which is useful to test the hypothesis and design methodology, but also for its unique location where a large tabula rasa of land is currently situated, undeveloped, in a metropolis such as New York City. New York, New York, Stitched Map Google Earth, 2017
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Hudson Yards, New York A dense urban fabric creates environments where the motions of every day life are accelerated and emphasized. Arguably, cities are also where the newest innovations, technology and advancements occur, resulting in a greater rate of things becoming outdated. New York, New York, Figure Ground Map Thomas Kim, 2017
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Site Analysis
Hudson Yards in New York City contains a tabula rasa, a large blank site that is currently untouched, something that is rare to find in such a metropolitan area. Analysis of Hudson Yards and Context Thomas Kim, 2017
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Forward Progress
Architectural Strategy The site will go through a deep reorganization to create the amending space. The project will consider the four (out of five) basic senses as the essence of human life, as we perceive and record the happenings of every day life through our eyes, ears, nose and hand. Concept Collages Thomas Kim, 2017
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INTERVENTION
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Infrastructure (FIELD) “Infrastructure works not so much to propose specific buildings on given sites, but to construct the site itself. Infrastructure prepares the ground for future building, and creates the conditions for future events.”
Allen, Stan. Points lines: diagrams and projects for the city. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012.
To give the amending space a flexibility, which allows change over time, the field will be utilized as a soft parameter in which objects within will be changed, placed and contorted to play within the grid. By using the same technique as the eastern railyard where the large developments exist, the caissons placed underneath the site will be extruded above the site 12’ to create a grid derived from the “skeleton” of the city. This grid is comprised of 35’ x 65’ dimensions. Existing site conditions.
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Infrastructure strategy.
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Site Strategy
The site sits between two barriers or borders, one created by the west side highway, the other created by the humorously scaled monoliths of the Hudson Yards development. The vast contrast of scale creates an interesting moment in between, where the site lies. The path, or movement through the site was intensely analyzed as this would become the catalyst of the experience. Site strategy diagrams.
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Site strategy sketches.
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Exploded axonometric diagram.
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Section through the auditory folly.
Section through the railryards.
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Follies (OBJECT) While the field gives the project a flexible, temporal aspect, the follies intervene the field as the permanent structures that are locked in. The follies purposely break away from the grid that is set by the field, to create tension and contrast from the rest of the objects within the field. The follies are divided into three categories. A neutral representation of the four senses, which provoke each sense through materiality and form, and vary in the intensity of representation dependent on the site conditions which change each day. The two bars which mimic the barriers on either side represent an experience, created artificially, of overload and deprivation of the senses. A sequence is created to move through the four follies, in the same order that an infant develops his/her senses from the womb to the world. Each end of the sequence is anchored by an observation tower at either end. These objects are the tallest structures on the site, giving visitors a visual marker, wherever they may be on the site. However, from beginning to end, the site is metaphorically depressed into the site as a wound or a cut.
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Folly Design
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Folly Design
The site begins at the ground level, and slowly declines to sixteen feet below ground, where visitors are invited back up to the ground level via the helix ramp which wraps around the observation tower. Folly categorization & preliminary planning.
+SMELL Olfactory fatigue Inability to distinguish smell Smells blend together Flower field + Waste plant
+AUDITORY
SMELL
AMPITHEATER DENSE URBANISM EXAM ROOM SILO
+VISUAL
VISUAL
+TOUCH / FEEL Anxiety inducing environment Trapped feeling
Ability to taste significantly decreases. Texture and feel is significantly increased.
AUDITORY
Impulsive movement Inability to focus Easily distracted and failure to concentrate
Inability to distinguish Loss of self-location
-SMELL
PERFUMERIE FLOWER FIELD WASTE FACTORY FARMLAND
-AUDITORY Heightened sense of self (hearing your own organs) heightened sense of vision and visual memory.
-VISUAL
MUSEUM LIGHT SHOW PLANETARIUM CAVE
TOUCH / FEEL
Increased sense of audio and a heightened sense of touch.
-TOUCH / FEEL
SENIOR HOME RAINFOREST SOLITARY CELL CONCERT
Complete isolation comes with behavioral changes in prolonged periods of time. Increase in imagination?
Formal Studies Matrix
Preliminary formal studies matrix.
Olfactory
Auditory
Visual
Tactile
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Experience (FORM & MATERIAL) Each folly is created with approach, entry and sequence in mind. The various follies’ dimensions are derived from the grid, while the positioning is broken from the field. The idea was to create four, similar objects that were placed within the cut, with four different operations to depict the four different senses. Detailed axonometric drawing.
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Experience
Tactile Tactile folly collage.
Snapshot of the animation.
A compressed corridor instills an uneasy feeling as visitors walk through the wind tunnel. Gusts of wind accelerate through the vast opening on the opposing side, while the glimpse of a promiscuous object attracts users to continue through the tunnel. The object is created with brass and slate, with jagged edges and platforms for seating, while the creeping walls of the folly is created with a textured concrete, provocating a desire to feel, and touch the objects and textures being presented.
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Experience
Olfactory Olfactory folly collage.
A frosted glass panels obscures the cedar lattice system from the ground level in the cut, while visitors above the cut of the site are able to see the inner workings as the gradient of the frost clears up towards the upper levels of the folly. A sunken repression contains the ashes, or aftermaths of incense and fragrants that are burned, while the constant smoke escapes through a void in the ceiling. The smell of the fragrances are absorbed by the cedar, to combine artificial aromas with the ones of nature.
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Visual Visual folly collage.
A vague, banal exterior creates a more dramatic reveal as visitors step through the thresholds of the thick walls. A slit in the ceiling mimics the dock that sits underneath, to bring in light, as well as water during rainfall. A recessed ceiling brings in light behind the mirror-like, polished marble panels. The water ripples from the rainfall, or wind moving through the space, to create beautiful effects of an infinite space within the banal shell to create a dramatic play between light and shadow, varying based on site conditions.
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Experience
Auditory Auditory folly collage.
A compressed corridor instills an uneasy feeling as visitors walk through the wind tunnel. Gusts of wind accelerate through the vast opening on the opposing side, while the glimpse of a promiscuous object attracts users to continue through the tunnel. The object is created with brass and slate, with jagged edges and platforms for seating, while the creeping walls of the folly is created with a textured concrete, provocating a desire to feel, and touch the objects and textures being presented.
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Experience
Unrolled long section thru follies.
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Experience
The ending results of the thesis heavily depends on the use of materiality and simple geometries to create profound experiences. However, the greater root of the project relies on the effects that architecture can have to create sensory experiences in - investigating how an individual can create a profound personal exchange that may affect the way they carry themselves outside the boundaries of the amending space. Detailed site plan.
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Experience
Zoomed in detailed axonometric.
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Fabrication
Fabrication To convey the importance of materiality and experience, the follies were created using precise materials and scale. Context made with cement and MDF, site printed on FormLabs 3d printer, and laser cut plexiglass.
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Fabrication
Tactile pavilion made with cast cement, formwork using CNC milled foam and hand-broken foam strips, context made with MDF and laser cut 3-ply chipboard.
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Fabrication
Olfactory pavilion made with handfrosted plexiglass, laser cut basswood. Incense were purchased to create the smoke effect from within.
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Fabrication
Visual pavilion made with spray painted plywood, marble pattern printed, clear adhesive sheets, and reflective plexiglass. The ground is covered in epoxy to mimic the water that would be present.
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Fabrication
Auditory pavilion made with cast cement, using CNC milled foam molds.
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CNC milled foam for the auditory pavilion.
CNC milled foam for the tactile pavilion.
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Olfactory pavilion scaffolding.
Mixing the 5th bucket of cement, 200 lbs of cement used in total.
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SOURCES & BIBLIOGRAPHY
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