Yeonil Portfolio

yeoniL Kim 2005~2012 m. Arch, Uc BerKeLey

KIM, YEONIL Mobile: (510) 520-0797 | E-mail: yeonil.kim@berkeley.edu | Date of Birth: Sep 19. 1981

EDUCATION Sep.2010~May.2012

Master of Architecture - University of California, Berkeley, CA

Mar.2001~Feb.2007

Bachelor of Science in Architecture - SungKyunKwan University, Korea

HONORS & AWARDS Fellowship

UC Berkeley Department Fellowships 2010-2011

1st place

The 2008 Junglim Photography competition

3rd place

The 5th Junglim design competition

Spring, 2006

Sungkyunkwan Academic Excellence Scholarship

Selected work

The 25th National Exhibition of Korean Architecture, 2006

Grand Prize

The 2006 SKKU Graduation Exhibition

CREDENTIALS Jan. 2009

Registered Assistant-Architect, KIA, No.208-81-02969

Jan. 2006

National License for Level 1 Word processing

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCES May.2010 ~ Jul.2010

Freelance Architectural Designer, Junglim Architects, Seoul

Jan.2007 ~ May.2009 Full-time Architectural Designer, Junglim Architects, Seoul - This firm is one of largest architecture firm in Korea. I worked on several projects, which included drafting construction documents, design, and modeling. Performed the role of an assistant-designer in developing conceptual design and design development, drafting construction document after 1st year.

Jan.2006, Apr.2006

Freelance Graphic Designer, SAFE lab in Dept. of Materials, SKKU - I worked with professors in Dept. of Materials. Designing and producing illustration works and diagrams in BrainKorea21 project and SAFE Lab.

Aug.2005 ~ Sep.2005 Architectural Intern, Sunglim Architects, Seoul - Full time work for Housing Complex Project. My tasks included early scheme proposals, general drafting and model building.

resume PROJECT EXPERIENCES May.2010 ~ Jul.2010

Kyungbuk province Government office building idea competition - Best Prize

Feb.2007 ~ May.2009 K-Project (Times Square), Multi-use Complex GFA: 342,090.59m2 - Biggest Shopping Mall in Korea - Grand Prize, 2010 City of Seoul Architecture Award Apr.2008 ~ May.2008 Hallyu-world 2nd district Accommodation, Hotel GFA: 86,625.92m2 Jan.2007 ~ Apr.2007

NC-Soft R&D Center, Office GFA: 30,904.00m2 - Honorable Prize, 2008 City of Seoul Architecture Award - Excellence Prize, 2008 KIRA Design Award

SOCIAL / EXTRA ACTIVITIES Jan.2003 ~ Feb.2005 Military Service (Engineering Corps) - Sergent - Worked for Construction supervisor, Logistical management Community Service: 2001,2002

Summer Organic Agriculture voluntary service Program in Seoul Catholic Student Association

Dec.2002 ~ Jan.2003 Chairman, Kwacheon high school reunion in SKKU Dec.2002 ~ Jan.2003 Chairman, Seoul Catholic Student Association in SKKU Jan.2001 ~ Jan.2003

Teacher, Kwacheon Catholic church Sunday-school

SKILLS 2D Graphics: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Aftereffect 3D Graphics: AutoCAD, 3D Studio MAX, Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, Sketch-up, Revit Architecture, V-ray Skilled in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Strong interpersonal and team skills

Megastructure; transforming the space of threshold Academy of Art University Campus, San Francisco

PAVILIONS

SAN FRANCISCO

UC Berkeley Works Rizome and entrophy Pavilion, California

Multi- Layered Strips

Morphing the threshold

Urban swimming

Blending inside and outside

Viewing deck for america`s cup in pier9, San Francisco

Urban swimming pool & recreation center, mission district, San Francisco

Pavilion

Pavilion

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Tracing traditional roof Government complex in kyungbuk province, Korea

Undergraduate Works DESIGN PROJECTS

Professional Works

Finding the lost link Tradtional culture center in donwhamun-ro, Seoul, Korea

Times square

Through the nature

Hallyu-world hotel

Photography

Community center in samdeok paper factory yard, Anyang, Korea

Accomodation in the hallyuworld distirct2, Gyonggi-do, Korea, PF project

OTHERS

Commercial multi-use complex, yeongdengpo-gu, Seoul, Korea

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MEGASTRUCTURE

MEGASTRUCTURE; TRANSFORMING THE SPACE OF THRESHOLD ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, SAN FRANCISCO

Spring 2012 Instructror: Susan Ubbelodhe, Cris Benton

Architecture is integrated to the city.

Architecture today cannot concern itself only. Urban architecture has become a vital and thriving field of design. City and Architecture have changed and progressed continuously due to the development of human culture. The relationship between city and architecture is not dominantsubordinate relationship or whole and parts any more, but it is a reciprocal relationship.

Megastructure is the notable issue of the Architecturalization of the city.

Nearly half of the world’s population currently living in cities and its rate is getting higher and higher. Li Bin, director of China’s National Population and Family Planning Commission, said that 700million Chinese people will be living in the cities by 2015, representing a shade over half the projected population of 1.39 billion. The impact of rapid urbanization in Asia has led to the creation of many megastructures (skyscrapers and groundscrapers). Moreover, in Europe, megastructures are built to re-vitalize and balance the development of the old city.

It is obvious that this kind of architecture has affected the city, if it is postive or not. This social phenomenon causes

several influences which the city faces in this time. Megastructure presents hardened edges towards the city which have serious ramifications for the quality of surrounded public spaces. In addition, the characteristic of contemporary megastructure design places emphasis on its own shape without consideration of human scale. The scale of these megastructures and continuity of their facades create invisible boundaries that conflict with pedestrians.

Florian Beigel, a professor of Architecture and a Diploma Unit Tutor in Architecture at the London Metropolitan University, said, “We are getting sick and tired of the emphasis on the object. We are more interest in empty space, in-between objects. The space is the sole raison d’être of architecture, not the object.”

The space of threshold is a dynamic zone where relationships between inside and out, public and private, are negotiated.

Through doorways, screens, walls, and transitional spaces, the framework of the boundary ‘builds’ spatial relationships to adjacent realms. The boundary can be more than a mere dividing line or just a facade. It can be conceived of as a zone of overlap, where adjacent realms are

revealed, connected, and intensified.

My purpose of thesis is as follows.

1. How the groundscraper integrates into and enhances the urban fabric of existing city?

2. How to stitch the mega structure and the urban patterns at the perspective of human scale.

3. How to transform the space of thresholds between blocks and buildings in order to reduce the division between the architectural objects and the urban scape.

In this point of view, the first step of this study is to research a historical and theoretical context of Megastructure which includes a built and un-built (realized and imagined) cases, and further, to figure out the possibilities for my design work.

The second step will be an extraction of distinctive urban characters of San Francisco. This step will allow reconciling the nature of current urban fabrics with newly generated urban tissues.

The third step is applying those findings to my design. This thesis will illustrate an approach to the prevailing pattern of designing large scale urban re-development that is not woven to city scape.

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MEGASTRUCTURE

Breathiing

HUMAN

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Human beings breathe with three holes.

Like this, Most of contemporary groundscrapers have designated entrances, such as main entrance and sub entrances, due to the maintenance and flow control. This strategy, through restricting the flow of people, maximize the profit and induce people to mega-gathering facilities(anchor).

Anchors spread the flow of people to the surrounding retail and it is now used as a method to guarantee a commercial success. But, the problem of this strategy is that it limits the role of ‘public space’ in the buildings.

Insects, however, breathe with their abdomen which includes quite a number of ventral stigmata-gateways for breathing. This survival strategy can adapt to buildings.

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SAN FRANCISCO

Programs I choose the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

The University is spread out across the entire San Francisco. Gathering these facilities into one district can create a syngery effect and can also vitalize this area.

Relocation

Program arrangement

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FINANCIAL DISTRICT

CULTURE STRIP

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INDIVIDUAL WORK

Cartography of keyword map

SAN FRANCISCO

HIGH DENSITY CITY NEEDS URBAN REGENERATION CONSTANCY OF URBAN FABRICS MAKING AN IDENTITY

GROUNDSCRAPER

PERIMETER BLOCK PUBLIC SPACE

CAPABLE OF GREAT OR EVEN “UNLIMITED”EXTENSION MOVEMENT MOBILITY MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT HARDENED EDGES ARCHITECTURAL DEVICE CONSTRUCTED OF MODULAR UNITS PLUGED-IN, CLIPPED-ON

COMMUNAL SPACE OPEN SPACE THRESHOLDS COMMERCIAL SPACE

BETWEEN BLOCKS BLURRING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN PROGRAMS BETWEEN LEVELS BETWEEN LAYERS

BOUNDARIES

SPATIAL CONFIGURATION METHODS WEAKENING OPTICAL BOUNDARIES WEAKENING COGNITIVE BOUNDARIES INDUCING VARIOUS EVENTS REINTERPRETING PROGRAMS

PERCEPTION OF FACADE DISTORTING

TRANSPARANCY SKINS WHICH WORK AS AN IMAGE EXTEND A GROUND INTERMEDIATE SPACE LINKING URBANSTRUCTURE UNDECIDED CIRCULATION NON-LINEAR FLOOR CONTINUITY OF VIEW UNDECIDED PROGRAM MERGING PROGRAM REORGANIZING PROGRAM

ARCHITECTURAL DEVICES

MORPHING BLURRING

Weakening visual boundaries

BOUNDARY

WEAKENING BOUNDARIES

INDUCING EVENTS

REINTERPREATING PROGRAMS

FLOW SMOOTH VISIBLITY MATERIAL CONVERGENCE

EXTENSION OF GREEN SPACE RAISED PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION FLOATING VOLUMES GROUND LEVEL PARK TOWER

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Weakening designated circulation

Making public space Function of public space is defined by surrounding programs.

ENTROPHY

DETERMINATE SPACE

Function Function of of Public Public space space is is defined defined by by surrounding surrounding programs programs

Connections between raised path and buildings

Perspective view

ENTROPHY

INDETERMINATE SPACE

DETERMINATE SPACE

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INDIVIDUAL WORK

MEGASTRUCTURE

HISTORY AND FUTURE OF ‘THE GROUNDSCRAPER’

2013

After the completion of the Transbay Terminal, the redevelopment of ‘The groundscraper’ is started.

2015

Vitalization of South Bay neighborhood. The groundscraper of San Francisco becomes a famed tourist spot, and changed to an incubator of artists and performing artists.

2020

Today, ecological space of 0000sq.ft. made new activities for the city, such as a rock climbing, games on the grass, ecotourism, etc.

MASTER PLAN

2030

Surrounding buildings change their strategies. Owners recognize the benefit of eco strips skyrocketing rent prices .They change mid-floors to eco-spaces and also closed boundaries which are located at street level changing them to open space for the public.

2050

This trend expands to all over the San Francisco, and “Wild animals re-inhabiting the Financial district” is no longer unusual news.

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NETWORKING Networking system makes the public and cultural links between surrounding blocks, and each network works as a culture incubator in this neighborhood.

GROUND LEVEL PLAN

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MEGASTRUCTURE

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PERSPECTIVE VIEW FROM THE MAIN STREET The lower level structure increases its porosity. Street level facade has a lot of enterances and also has undecided circulation.

Its facade works as an image wall.

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DIVIDUAL WORKS

SECTION

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EXPLODED DIAGRAM

MEGASTRUCTURE

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MULTILAYERED STRIPS VIEWING DECK FOR AMERICA`S CUP IN PIER 9, SAN FRANCISCO

Spring 2011 Instructror: Susan Ubbelodhe

The site is the existing pier 9 in San Francisco, located on the Embarcadero, several blocks northwest of the Ferry building.

The port is a single story, gable timber structure that rests partially on concrete, but is more exclusively supported by pier foundations in the bay. It is approximately 100,000 square feet, currently used for parking and storage. The front facade along the Embarcadero is its only facade with historical significance. For the purpose of this project, the pier`s historic significance is taken into consideration in respect to the community and city. Similarly, sustainable strategies, realated to sea level rising, are initiated.

This building is designed so serve as the America`s Cup viewing deck. However, it is not a temporary building, but a new infrastructure that will exists and postively affect the San Francisco Embarcadero long after the America’s Cup.

MULTI-LAYERED STRIPS

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Building diagrams

Stacking programs

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INDIVIDUAL WORK

MULTI-LAYERED STRIPS

History

INDIVIDUAL WORKS

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Sea level rise strategy

Pier 9

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MULTI-LAYERED STRIPS

Plan

Ground level

Viewing deck

Roof

Section

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Exploded diagram

Multi layered roof

Viewing deck

service area

Pier structure

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Facade System

Structural facade system

INDIVIDUAL WORK

MULTI-LAYERED STRIPS

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Roof System

Sustainable Design

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URBAN SWIMMING URBAN SWIMMING POOL & RECREATION CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO

Fall, 2010 Instructror: Roddy Creedon

My primary goal for the project is to reorganize the relationship between park, swimming pool and sports facilities in order to attain continuities of movement and visual perception.

These objects exist in the same space in the city, but I feel them only in fragments.

The city needs specific frameworks which allows relationships to form between these fragments organically.

To achieve this goal, I modified the topology of the park from existing paths and lines from the urban context which ultimately forms a set of several volumes.

The modified topology allows for new movements of people and provide outdoor spaces that become a part of the program.

View sites of the scenery between the proposed physical structures reinforces my strategy to acquire the continuity of visual composition. It reacts to the various urban components. Thus it breaks down the boundaries of the site.

URBAN SWIMMING

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REARRANGEMENT

DESIGN PROCESS

Making Grid

Insert Volume

Making Open Space

Insert Program

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INDIVIDUAL WORK

URBAN SWIMMING

Elements

Misson district, San Francisco

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Physical model

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Plan

Long section

INDIVIDUAL WORK

URBAN SWIMMING

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Wall section

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URBAN SWIMMING

Details This roof system contains the sun shading rouvers and natural ventilation system.

These systems control the humidity and temporature of the pool.

Sustainable system diagram

Enlarged plan

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Swimming pool

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RIZOME AND ENTROPHY PAVILION, CALIFORNIA

Fall, 2011 Instructror: Eric Kahn

Re: Entropy Organizations on the Verge of the Catastrophic As early as 1971 Rudolph Arnheim forged a speculation on the consequences of Entropy in Art (Entropy in Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order). Entropy, unlike distinct autonomous versions of order offers a dynamic process fueled/subjected by/to a spectrum of forces. Often interpreted as ‘the amount of randomness or disorder in a system’ there is a latent potential entropic operations(s) to produce a variant field generating a more nuanced, adaptive and more interdependent aggregations. Contemporary understandings of nature are now understood as an unauthored process–essentially driven by growth + entropy.

Contemporary notions of myriad complex relationships between natural systems and human intervention pieces together an ‘emergent and strange paradigm’.

URBAN SWIMMING

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Definition

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INDIVIDUAL WORK

Design process

Landscape

Vectorization

Pixelization

Contradiction between civilization and landscape

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Phototropic modules; Nature / Mimesis

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30” x 40” x 1/2” thick Foamcore with 2400 1” T-pins. Becomes the landscape or ‘site’.

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URBAN SWIMMING

MORPHING THE THRESHOLD PAVILION, CALIFORNIA

Sections

Fall, 2011 Instructror: Gary Paige

Void-ing; or, The Ontology of Hole-y Space 24’x24’x24’ hut.

This studio was interested in the application of design research.

In mereology (the study of the relations between parts and holes) a hole is defined as an immaterial body that is: A. a perforation in the surface of a host body or, B. a threedimensional space that forms a volume or void.

In architecture, however, a hole(aperture) is typically an element used to modulate light and air, frame views or blur the boundary between inside and outside, provide ingress and egress, or establish scale. Using this as one of several points of departure, the aim is to expand this idea beyond two-dimensional to form not only the pattern of perforations in a surface, but the volume that`s adjacent to and part of the hole, like a tunnel that burrows through a space and exits on the other side.

In program, I was interested in various ideas about inhabitation or occupation. Theres no designated conventional programs.

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ANATOMY OF EAR Analysing the characteristic of ear was the first step of generating holes. It has a large surface on the outside for catching sound.

Inner space getting smaller to process the input.

INDIVIDUAL WORK

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URBAN SWIMMING

Physical models

Generation

First generation

Manifold model

Structural frame

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Variation of holes

Plan

Roof Plan

Second floor Plan

First floor Plan

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BLENDING INSIDE AND OUTSIDE PAVILION

Fall, 2011 Instructror: Wes Jones

THE TRANSITIONAL PAVILION makes a picture frame between physical materials. “間”means the space in between materials.

A unique space condition concerning in-between spaces is present in many traditional Korean architecture buildings and became the starting conceptual point for the design. Level differences between the building and ground, as well as interior spaces allow for different readings of boundaries and enclosures, but still gives a feeling of vagueness to its users. The frames also re-emphasize the concept of inbetween spaces by manipulating the boundary and enclosure conditions. They serve dual purposes and also act as moveable functioning furniture.

URBAN SWIMMING

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Concept

POP-UP CARD makes empty space between surfaces and it makes different picture frame.

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INDIVIDUAL WORK

Making a frame

Interaction between inside and outside

Frames make furnitures

URBAN SWIMMING

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ENVELOPE

CONCRETE CASTING

STRUCTURAL FRAME

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TRACING TRADITIONAL ROOF GOVERNMENT COMPLEX IN KYUNGBUK PROVINCE IN KOREA

May. 2010 ~ Jul. 2010 Work scope: Concept design, diagrams, modeling, report, photography, competition board

How to reinterpret Korean Traditional Architecture The government complex of Kyungbuk province should stand as a symbolic site to represent the province. It also should be a public government building which harmonizes tradition and contemporary architecture, showcases the province’s long history, cultural heritage, and environmental conditions.

The image of new government office is a cultural space that should not necessarily convey authority, but should coexist with the historical heritage and convey welcomeness to the people visiting and living in Kyungbuk.

For these purposes, we tried to reinterpret Traditional Korean Architecture and used the traditional elements metaphorically rather than directly. We studied traditional plan arrangement theories and concepts which are derived from an analysis of Pungsu Theory (the theory of divination based on topography) and concept of traditional sceneries.

TRACING TRADITIONAL ROOF

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TRACING TRADITIONAL ROOF

New government complex The courtyard is a characteristic of the traditional space which is made from the composition of buildings. It expresses the Kyungbuk province`s regionality and also provides human-scale community space for citizens.

The roof is an urban scale structure that symbolizes the harmony and the unification of Kyungbuk province. It also serves many to solve many current issues some of which includes energy saving and environmental problems.

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Plan arrangement concept

Dividing programs

Dividing buildings

Making courtyards

Making boundaries

Making roof

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TRACING TRADITIONAL ROOF

Relating with the city

Flow of the city axis

Courtyard

Main hall

Courtyard

Auditorium

Masterplan

Development plan

Ciculation

Flow of the green axis

Flow of the water space

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TIMES SQUARE COMMERCIAL MULTI-USE COMPLEX, YEONGDENGPO, SEOUL, KOREA

Feb. 2007 ~ May. 2009 Grand prize, 2010 City of Seoul Architecture award Work scope: schemetic design, design development, construction document

Urban Entertainment Lifestyle Center As people started settling down in groups, commercial places transformed into unified markets where their functions became specialized as well as developed. Before, a commercial place was a simple small place to consume products, and its social meaning was limited.

However, through social specialization and developments in production, exchanges have been actively increasing and through developments in transportation, distribution improved. In the middle of this change, there is the department store. Department stores are historically seen as “Internalized arcades commercially built up’.

Within department stores, consumers can enjoy spontaneous buying while walking around the stores. Today, shopping centers have evolved from simple sites of consumption to complex places of leisure. Commercial place is where many activities occur and it reflects social, economical and cultural values. Contemporary commercial place is not traditionally meaningful, but looking at its realistic usefulness and function, it is becoming a complex cultural place where it is growing out of a simple selling place to a public place. Moreover, the public place, where everyone owns and shares the place, is losing its characteristics due to commercialization of the place by the private capital, resulting in the unclear differences between the public and private place.

TIMES SQUARE

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TIMES SQUARE

Site location

History of Site

16 The site is located in Young-Deung-Po. It is one of the 4 sub-centers of Seoul. Historically, large factories dominated this region, but as the founding industries of traditional YoungDeung-Po moved out, new apartments as well as supporting systems were and are being built.

Thus, in the future, Young-Deung-Po will take a role that serves as a connection point between Gang-Nam and Gang-Buk. New High-tech industry as well as increase in residents are expected. Its railroad, subway system and

roads sustain high volume.

Thus, this project activates the surrounding commercial areas and restores the existing Kyungbang Phill Department Store into a large complicated facility. Through this, it reinforces urban density as well as refocusing the city area around the Young-Deung-Po station.

Development of this new commercial complex brought about Kyungbang Phill Department Store’s renovation and transformation into a new Shinsegae Department store. In this

process of development, pre-existing Shinsegae Department Store went through a remodeling to connect the two buildings. Like this, Times Square, where Kyungbang Phill Department Store and Kyungsung Textile factory are connected, revitalizes the area as a new vibrant commercial sector.

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Program The main program consists of a popular commercial store that serves as the main anchor and connects to three sub anchors that attract customers into its triangular area. These anchors consider horizontal and vertical traffic lines of the customers to maximize the commercial value of the whole UEC. In the contemporary sense, shopping is not simply selling and buying, but provides amusement desires to the consumers. Times Square placed 2 secondary theme spaces and one main theme space to promote elasticity of the commercial place as well as give identity to the whole UELC.

Anchor 1 Department Store

NODE 3 Anchor 4 Book Store

Anchor 3 Brand Shop

NODE 2 NODE 1

Anchor 2 Multiplex Cinema

View of the site including Kyungbang Factory yard, 2005

View of the site after opening Times square, 2009

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Plans

1st Floor Plan

Hotel and UEC

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3rd Floor Plan

Interior view of main strip

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5th Floor Plan

North sunken garden and atrium

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Department store In planning a commercial facility, its size is in most cases, directly related to profit.

Since the existing department store is large and exceeds over 90% of its size regulations such as building to land ratio, total area, building boundary regulation and height restriction, it was determined that it was beneficial to rennovate the store. The department store gives the first impression of the commercial complex and it is the starting point of the facility from the main strip.

It reflects and reinforces the image of the whole facility, but still has a uniqueness that allows it to have its own identity.

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Design Story The first suggestion from the client was that the department store should be grand and luxurious. Our plan was carried out with a couple of main keywords; dignity, luxury and harmony. The initial design had two different concepts. The first had an angular mass to give a strong faรงade, and the second was round to maximize acknowledgement of the building by revealing the northern and western sides as one.

Skin studies Perception of the facade reaches to not only a point where the architecture meets the urban fabric. It extends its presence by sharing common characteristics that are present within the close urban environment, linking itself to the influence and cultures that surround it. It strives to both distinguish itself as well as link its architecture to its surrounding

Material studies

The usage of stone: Expressing Dignity and Hierachy through the physical properties of materials.

Shape transformation Inserting Visual Interface: transparent materials such as changeable LED and Lighting

Emphasizing edges

Recognizing facade in one facet

Using patterns

spliting facade

Pilotis are placed in 1st and 2nd floor Roof garden in 9,10 floor are linked to roof garden of UEC by visual green axis

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East Atrium

South Sunken Garden

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HALLYUWORLD HOTEL ACCOMODATION IN THE HALLYUWORLD DISTRICT 2, GYONGGI-DO, KOREA, PF PROJECT

Apr. 2008 ~ Jun. 2008 Work scope: Concept design, diagram, Modeling, Report

Hallyu(韓流,한류,Korean Wave) The Korean wave: refers to the significant increase in the popularity of South Korean entertainment and culture starting in the 1990s, in Asia, and more recently in other parts of the world. As one put it, it represents a surge in the international visibility of Korean culture.

The objective of Hallyu-world is to make regional Hallyu more globalized and create an organized system of Korean culture. It will be completed in Goyang-si, Korea by 2011. The main facilities will be a theme park, hotels, commercial facilities, and the content production facilities.

This hotel complex provides residence hotel, business hotel and retail for travelers.

Commercial facilities(Retails) locate in the lowrise part.

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Location: Ilsan Seo-Gu, Janghang-Dong,Daewhadong, Goyang-City, Geonggi-do, Korea Zoning: Commercial Zone Site Area: 13,728.00㎡ Building Area : 7,830.45㎡ Gross Building Area: 86,625.92㎡ Site Coverage Ratio: 57.04% Floor Area Ratio: 631.02% Building Scope: Basement Level 4, Above Level 20 Parking: 632 Cars Collaboration Firm: Haeahn Architects

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Elevation ㆍRepresenting natural environment in the urban area ㆍLow-rise part: beautiful curves of nature and natural flows of land and river are expressed in elevation design ㆍHigh-rise part: Elevation design considering elements of nature (light, water, greenery, wind, stones and etc.)

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FINDING THE LOST LINK TRADITIONAL CULTURE CENTER, IN DONWHAMUN-RO, SEOUL, KOREA

Mar. 2006 ~ Jun. 2006 Selected work in KIA Competition 2006 Grand prize in SKKU Exhibition 2006 Tutor: Prof. Tae Ho, Byun Prof. Jong In, Choi

Welcome to Seoul The authorities of the Cultural Property announced the plan concerning preparation of designating Seoul a historical city and allowing it UNESCO registration measurement on 24th, Jan, 2006.

The essence of this plan is that Seoul can be registered as a historical city appointed by UNESCO. The one point of this plan is to secure the old downtown areas within four gates by restoring the castle in Seoul. The other point is to restore the symbolic axis of downtown areas around Gyeongbok Palace and Gwanghwamun by which people can experience the urban structure of old Seoul directly.

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Making Cultural Base Donhwamun-ro is the area which has inherent historical, urban, cultural potentialities yet those values aren’t revealed outwardly. Now we can’t lose the streets of traditional culture in Seoul anymore by indiscreet and reckless development. It is possible to read our unique architectural, urban characteristics from this street because there are a lot of Koreanstyle houses which hold traditional outlooks (although their values as Cultural Properties have been fairly lost) and the spatial structure and road system of old Seoul are still quite well-preserved. Even though it is designated as a street of traditional culture like Insa-dong, it’s a quiet place relatively and doesn’t manifest the big number of moving population.

It is because the space of Donhwamun-ro which is related to the capacity of people and culture is insufficient itself. A former Music Hall area has become a complex building of dwelling and commerce and traditional Korean-style houses have changed into slums.

Many commercial shops in Jong-ro started to make an invasion upon Donhwamun-ro and the remains of tradition are about to disappear now. Since Changduk Palace and Jongmyo were designated as World Cultural Heritage, however, many foreigners are using Donhwamun-ro as a pathway of Changduk Palace and Jongmyo.

Considering it, preparing Donhwamun-ro with the touch of traditional and cultural elements is a favorable and beneficial idea of cultural marketing which has possibility of appealing to foreigners especially.

Paul D. Spreiregen says, “A street is a Corridor of urban space closed from the both sides.” It implies the continuous, unique and complicated characteristics of a street and also the fact that a street is inseparable from the buildings adjoined. It’s possible to change Donhwamun-ro into the area which permits people to experience and feel Korean traditional culture. With a new program, people can form a core of new culture and make it spread to the surrounding area.

History of Donwhamun-road Despite a lot of time being used since planning Seoul, unlike other neighboring roads, Donwhamun road did not undergo big changes and thus most of the shapes of the road when it was constructed are still maintained. On both sides of the road, the traditional form of street (pimat-gil: the way to keep away from horses) are preserved and the building of the waterway between the old form is also maintained.

When planning Building projects, these distictive qualities were applied as a significant value.

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Design Strategy Traditional Space includes space of hierarchy, surrounding, and core. For example, it’s easy to find the space of hierarchy from Korean traditional street system, the space of surrounding from the placement of buildings and the core such as a Korean traditional yard, so called Madang.

In contrast, modern space aims at decentralization rather than hierarchy or centeredness and it has a Rhizome property of which each element has unique characteristic.

The element ‘street’ can be a media connecting the space of tradition and modern times. Each element is diverged by a ‘street’ and a core is formed by a ‘street’, through which it is connected the other again. Each of individual objects will form a group organically but the whole building group will be weakened at the same time. Hence each characteristic will be treasured in value. Moreover, it is expected that the characteristic of the group is spread to the surrounding area through a Rhizome property.

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“Experience”is attained through the linear space. Programs follow the moving line and they are arranged and activated.

In the interview with Jean Baudrillard, Jean Nouvel said that through concepts such as movement, speed, and memory, which related to forced courses or authorized courses, we are able to organize the architectural space not only what we can see but also things that are memorized by series of sequence which are connected sensibly.

Educational, commercial and industrial area make circulation through an arrangement of programs.

I anticipate that this process will be able to create central place to making traditional culture and this place will be sufficient to every historical, developmental and cultural layers

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Extraction

In designing and activating the street which based on culture, this process extracts elements which are able to play a significant role in specialized Donwhamun-ro, and blends with street elements and then, connects to the appropriate architectural language.

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THROUGH THE NATURE COMMUNITY CENTER IN SAMDEOK PAPER FACTORY YARD, ANYANG, KOREA

Mar. 2005 ~ Jul. 2005 Tutor: Prof. Sung Ah, Kim Prof. Seung Won, Choi

Samdeok Paper Manufacturing Company In July 11, 2003, Jaejun Jeon, President of Samdeok Paper company, visited Anyang City and said that he wanted to donate his plant site(14426.5112m²)in Anyang, worth of 30,000,000,000 won. The land which was donated

by Mr. Jeon is located in the heart of downtown in Anyang and General residential area.

He said, “The factory was founded 42 years ago and after that, the citizens around the factory have suffered from much damage due to noise, dust and etc.” and also said, ” In the meantime, as my company has damaged to people, it is not surprising that the site should be return as compensation.

Mr. Jeon who born in Gaesung-si, Gyeonggi-do, acquired Samdeok Printing Paper Manufacturing company in 1961.

Jungdae Sin, mayor of Anyang, said, “following the will of the donor, site of the Samdeok Paper Manufacturing Company will be changed into beautiful park.” And He made his compliments to Mr. Jeon’s high entrepreneurial spirit and love of local community.

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SITE_Samdeok Paper Factory Decaying things and newly aborning things exist to neighbor each other. Declining side is going to exacerbate. And conversely, new things are going to stand out because of the presence of decaying things. This is related to a variety of reading the city, and the program will be able to have associated with. The common factors among existences which seem to be heterogeneous are occurring.

Samdeok, the paper mills have recognized an enclosed space to local residents for 40 years. The smoke from the chimney, only just tell us the existence. Not a community center in closed space, but it can be expected to play a role as a community center in open and public-oriented. It will be able to form the facility as an open urban landscape for the public which combined with Design, and mixed media.

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Programming A park is a place where many events are held under the same theme among the people and where it is acknowledged as an aggregate of such events. Moreover, it forms a public place where cultural factors are produced. By expanding mutual dependence of each individual, it provides various choices as well as opportunities to produce various cultural experiences. Community center is recommended within the park to put these cultural experiences into place. This place realizes exchanges among people and students. The place coupled with the external contents contributes to lasting relationship between people. Moreover, through this, the city continuously seeks to develop. The community center within the park allows a place where people can continuously have meetings. It works as a stimulant for people to understand each other.

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Design process To preserve the memory of the past and to emphasize the existing establishments, the vocabulary of folding, penetration and insertion were used. By accepting the previous stream of the land, the preexisting land context was used and the contents were planted internally in the stream. Rather than becoming a strong scenery objet, it desired to become an architecture adapting the stream.

Master plan To connect the cultural boundaries, a mediating place is needed for smooth cultural networking. The place must be open for everyone, and it should be reborn as a cultural hub.

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Networking Introducing the concept of a park within a place is based on how to bring out various behaviors by increasing the number of experiences. For the people to have an easy access to the park, wide area must be secured, and there should be entrances from many directions. This is to make a close relationship between the internal contents and the external contents. Another way to make easy access is to make the hierarchy between the floors unclear to make it seem like one place.

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Structure & System It contains Photo-voltaic panel, Solar collectors, LED panels which are energy saving technical devises. It also contains simple skylights and air intakes and outlets just like your window.

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EXTRA WORKS ‘An architect must perform the dual role of designer of the future and defender of the past’ - Richard England -

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Aesthetics of layers Songkwang temple, Jeollanam-do, Korea Nikon D70, F8 1/250, ISO100 The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel depends.

Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that their use depends.

The door and windows are cut out (from the walls) to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space(within), that its use depends.

Therefore, what has a (positive)existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Ch.11

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Encounter the era Byeongsan seowon, Kyongsangbuk-do Canon EOS 350D, F14 1/40, ISO100

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Fly a dream 1st prize, The 2008 Junglim Photo works Kyongpo beach, Kangwon-do, Korea Canon EOS 40D, F9.0 1/30, ISO400

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Tokyo Forum by Rafael Vinoly, Japan Conon EOS 40D, F4.0 1/200, ISO200

Heyri Art village, Gyonggi-do, Korea Canon EOS350D F7.1 1/50 ISO800

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Kim, yeonil

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