Sunghwan Um_Selected Works 2022 VER by Sunghwan Um

PORTFOLIO Selected works 2016-2021

Sung-hwan Um Master of Architecture 22’ Pratt Institute School of Architecture Graduate Architecture and Urban Design

Academic / Pratt GAUD SPRING 2022

01. RE:Park Ave

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FALL 2021

02. TO:Gather Home

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SPRING 2020

03. Museum of the Anthropocene

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SPRING 2019

04. Redhook Maritime Education Institution

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Professional Experience

Spring 2020

05. Supia Art Museum

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Spring 2019

06. Hyundai Hillstate Beomo Central

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01. RE:Park Ave Reimagining Social Infrastructure • • • • • •

Pratt Institute M.Arch Program Spring 2022 Design 06: Studio of Experiments Role: Collaborative Work of 2 Members / Partner: Youjin Rhee Program: Housing Conversion Instructor: Kai-Uwe Bergmann Achievement: Selected Project for the Pratt GAUD Critic at Large with Débora Mesa of Ensamble Studio & Prattshow Graduation Exhibition

In 2020, New York City emitted about 56.5 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent; that is projected to fall to 6.7 million tons in 2050 under the Diversified Pathway, even as NYC’s population grows. Among the emission, buildings are by far the largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in New York City. The city has a new goal to reduce emissions from large buildings 40% citywide by 2030 compared to 2005 levels. In part of making better building performance, New York City’s Local Law 84, 87 and 97 require building owners to assess their energy usage and improve it. These package of legistlation is to reduce greenhouse gas(GHG) emissions 80% by 2050. According to QSEL, research data shows that Midtown is the largest energy consuming district. Equivalent to its consumption, the district emits the most greenhouse gases. These package of legistlation is to reduce greenhouse gas(GHG) emissions 80% by 2050. Research data also shows that office buildings in Midtown are the largest contributor to the energy use intensity.

28% Building Operation BUILDINGS 11% Building Materials Construction

Despite its large emission index, Midtown is expanding with new office plans even though the office vacancy rate has been record ever higher since the pandemic and the mode of work-home condition has changed. The buildings are operating and emitting as they are but they are not performing well. In 2017, Department of City Planning approved the Greater East Midtown Rezoning. Residential conversion activity is part of its commitment. The main purpose of it is to revitalize the low performing business district that were built primarily in mid 1900s. The office stock is increasingly outdated and doesn’t live up to its needs. Some developments are reasonably taking advantage of this rezoning by demolishing the entire building and constructing new ones in the district which creates tons of waste. Buildings are already creating tons of tangible and intangible waste and these actions will burden the environment, not the least. This project starts and tackles this trend, trying to find a niche to existing assets for their better performance.

“Office inoccupancy rate has risen higher since pandemic but the buildings are still operating they are”

“Upgrade poorly performing office buildings into new types of housing and sustainability”

Among the buildings in the Greater East Midtown, 85% are office buildings impacted with pandemic situation by any means. Approximately 40 office buildings are under C grade in energy score. The project questions, How can existing buildings in New York City better perform both socially and environmentally with our current needs?

Office Buildings Under C Grade in Energy 8

350 Park Ave, New York, NY

Floors : 30 Size : 570,000 SF Built : 1960 Architect : Emery Roth & Sons

HOUSING

OFFICE

RECREATION

ATRIUM

LODGING

“WORK, PLAY, LIVE!”

01. A-A’ Section 02. Section Model Exterior 03. Exploded Axonometric

01. WORK, STAY

02. PLAY

LOWER LEVEL

MID LEVEL

03. LIVE UPPER LEVEL

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02. TO:Gather Home Low-rise LA Housing Project • • • • • •

Pratt Institute M.Arch Program Spring 2021 Design 05: Advanced Design Research Role: Individual Work Program: Low-rise Affordable Housing Instructor: Peter Zellner Achievement: Entry to ‘Low-rise LA’ Affordable Housing Competition, Entry to Bee Breeders ‘Modular Home’ Competition

The project starts with creating modular prototypes that can either combine and create a community in the corner lots of typical south Los Angeles or to function as Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) in individual lots. Considering the importance of corner conditions where they are highly exposed and where communities meet and integrate, it is assumed to be a hypothetical lot that should be in flexible condition. Modular solution is the best way to think about flexible conditions and it is well coincided with typical ADUs that are prevalent in the LA communities. By creating a CLT megastructure in the corner lots, the modular prototypes can simply be plugged or unplugged to form a community. The megastructure is open for added construction when there are more housing demands. If the particular block doesn’t need much housing, the megastructure can act as other hypothetical programs such as markets. This is very similar to the theory of Metabolism or Mobile Architecture where cities are thought of as an organic process.

Prototypes

Module(private unit)

Module Combinations and Parameters

Semi-private

Shared

COMBI 02-01

COMBI 02-02

COMBI 02-03

COMBI 02-04

COMBI 02-05

COMBI 02-06

COMBI 02-07

COMBI 02-08

COMBI 02-09

Combination of 2

COMBI 03-01

COMBI 03-02

COMBI 03-03

COMBI 03-04

COMBI 03-05

COMBI 03-06

Combination of 3 18

Community M

The prototyped modules are assumed to be standardized by International Standards(IS) to be easily scalable and transportable. This assumption is mostly because of the docking conditions. However, within the range of its standard, the private module unit can feature differently based on the individual style of living. These prototype can aggregate and create a different features of community. Also it can be disassembled individually to other lots for different reasons and purposes. The prototype also addresses COVID-19 issues which has changed the lifestyle of people not only in the US but worldwide. The module is combined with a CLT built structure consisting of and distributed with semi-private and shared space. The semi-private space acts as a subsidiary area that is separated with private bedroom. The idea derived from the pandemic situation where people needed an extra space to do something out of quarantine situation. According to the Housing characteristics and staying at home during COVID19 pandemic by Grant Schellenberg, people have worked through zoom or in virtuality in their private area. This is the main reason of creating semi-private space as an additional space complying with the globally affected historical pandemic situation which has lasted for two years. Moreover, it also affected in peoples’ crave for private outdoor space where they need direct access to outdoor air circulation.

01. Modular Living - 8’ (W) x 20’(L) x 10’(H) - Size by International Standard(IS)

05. Spatial Distribution - Private Living + Semi Private Space + Shared Space

02. Combination - Private Living + Semi Private Space + Shared Space

06. Outdoor (Green) Space - Private Green Space + Community Green Space

03. Modular + Docking - Modular Unit docks into the system to create a prototype - Private dwelling unit take on-the-grid

07. Vertical Circulation - Shared Space operates vertical circulation

04. Combined / Circulation - Outside > Private > Semi-private > Shared > Outside 07

08. Service Area - Horizontally, shared space operates as service area consisting kitchen, dining and living

01. Site Plan (Top view focused on vegetation)

Community M

03. General Axon View 02. Gound Floor Plan

04. A-A’ Section

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03. Museum of the Anthropocene Museum Space in Waste-to-Energy Plant • • • • • •

Pratt Institute M.Arch Program Spring 2020 Design 04: Integrated Contexts & Mediums Role: Collaborative Work of 2 Members / Partner: Ricardo Palacio Program: Waste-to-Energy Plant with interstitial Museum Space Instructor: Jonas Coersmeier Achievement: Selected Project for the Pratt GAUD Critic at Large with Mack Scoggin & Merril Elam ‘Earth Action Week’ nominated project in AIANY Center for Architecture. Presented to BJarke Ingels Group & The Amager Bakke Foundation

Localizing waste management to reduce pollution and cost from regional transportation networks. Allowing public access into infrastructural programs to increase awareness of waste issues, creating a public amenity and anticipating the increased densification of the city, where scarcity of ground-level space will prompt public spaces to continue to stratify. With the purpose of inspiring the user to make a change in their daily routines.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard

Distance

New York generates 14 million tons of garbage per year, or 12,000 tons per day. Most is sent to landfills out of state. A 2009 study shows that burning waste is greener than landfills and generates more energy. Localizing waste management reduces pollution and cost from regional transportation networks as exemplified by WTE facilities in Long Island that serve local jurisdictions. Layering public programs onto infrastructural programs increases awareness of waste issues, creates a public amenity, and anticipates the increased densification of the city, where scarcity of ground-level space will prompt public spaces to continue to stratify. This strategy has been employed in downtown Tokyo where a combined WTE and recreation center has managed to clean 99% of facility emissions.

03. Material Studies&Effects 01. Massing View A

02. Massin View B

04. Massing Application

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Program The diagram shows the different programs by sectors and the four circulation paths showing their relationship between program, private and public circulations.

01. Ferry 02. Museum Entrance 03. Common Collecting & Sorting 04. MRF Sorting 05. MRF Barge Out

Circulation Incineration MRF General Course

Ground Level Plan

Upper Level Plan

Long Section 30

Cross Section 31

The Structure Parti The project is started with an idea of having a primary system which holds from the ground and then connects it with the secondary system connected with vectors of the original mass. Introduced “Tree Structure” concept in which the building has a solid base and expands into the branches consisting of floor plates and walls 32

04. Red Hook Maritime Education Institute Educational Institute with Public Playscape • • • • •

Pratt Institute M.Arch Program Spring 2019 Design 02: Interiorities & Contexts Role: Individual Work Program: Educational Institute & Public Playscape Instructor: Eric Schoenenberger

The project goal was to design learning environment specifically focused on investigating interiority and massing. Interiority which is understood and represented as to be empty and furnished after architectural consideration is considered as a mass in this project. Specifically, the project focused interiority as one entire form as well as an exterior massing. The first step was to investigate the poche of the precedents specifically on the interior. Since the project was designing maritime middle school in Red Hook, Brooklyn, the precedent in this project focused on it with the relevant context. It started with investigating the interior of various types of vessels to eventually aggregate them into one single form. The aggregation features massing, circulation, occupancy and space of explorations.

The Inside Out The design studio addresses a specific site through its interior. It emphasizes the related conceptual and material impacts of this “inside out” approach. Circulation and its material and spatial qualities are explored through the design of a small building that responds to a detailed ensemble of architectural programs and the multiple contexts of a local institution. The studio worked with a variety of community-based organizations for the purposes of knowledge exchange, allowing to intimately understand the activities housed in their design proposals. Coordinated in parallel with Architectural Mediums II and Structures II, contemporary structural and representational techniques are explored within the studio introducing students to basic ideas of integration and comprehensive design.

Interiority Massing

Poche / Long

Poche / Cross

Whole Massing

Application to Site

01. Lower Level Plan

02. Chunk Model

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04. A-A’ Section 38

03. Upper Level Plan

B’

05. B-B’ Section 39

05. Supia Art Museum • • • • • •

Professional Experience in Dangjoo Architects and Engineers Location: Chilgok, South Korea Role: Junior Project Architect Project Duration: 10.2028 - 01.2017 / Experienced whole duration from SD to CD & CM(Inspector) Program: Art Museum Status: Completed (07.2017)

01. Underground Level (Main Corridor)

02. Ground Level (Main Gallery)

03. Roof Level (Above Ground Outdoor Space)

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01. Underground Level Plan 02. Ground Level Plan 03. South Elevation 04. A-A’ Section

06. Hyundai Beomo Central

Image Credit : Hyundai E&C / Kunjung Architects

Professional Experience in Hyundai Engineering & Construction Location: Daegu, South Korea / Headquarters in Seoul Role: Assistant Project Manager (CM Department Team Member) Project Duration: 10.2028 - 01.2022 / Experienced 30% of the whole duration from 07.2020 to 07.2021 (Mainly framework to finishing state) Program: Mixed-use Residential Status: Completed (01.2022)

Image Credit : Hyundai E&C

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Image Credit : Hyundai E&C

Master Schedule

Process Minutes

Construction Process Experienced 01. Main framework (On-site concrete) 02. Waterproof 03. Window 04. ALC Interior 05. Underground finishing 06. Floor finish 07. Exterior finish

Aerial Drone View (07.2021)

Image Credit : Hyundai E&C

Image Credit : Hyundai E&C / Kunjung Architects

Aerial Render View