YOON HUR
PORTFOLIO
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
2020
re: Yoon Hur
October 15, 2019 I am writing to support Yoon Hur and her ambitions to contribute to, and learn from your team. Yoon was previously my student at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. I have had the pleasure of observing Yoon’s dedication and investment in her architectural education. I taught Yoon in three courses during her first year, and can attest to her knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm of the subject matter. Yoon has exhibited a keen commitment to learning, and is motivated, organized, punctual, and conscientious. Yoon has always been a diligent participant in studio. She has an astute eye, and draws beautifully whether by hand or by computer. She has always been willing to take calculated risks in her work, and executes with precision, care, and skill. Yoon’s conceptual, technical, graphic, and spatial skills are nicely developed for a student early in her education, but that has never stopped her from constantly striving to improve. I recommend Yoon without reservation. Much like her work, Yoon is thoughtful, driven, and pleasant. She collaborates well with her fellow classmates, and is earnest, kind, and personable. As a student who is early in her architectural education, Yoon has already exhibited promise, and has delivered consistently strong results. She would be an enthusiastic, conscientious, and capable addition to your team. If you have any questions regarding this recommendation, please do not hesitate to contact me for further discussion at flimtung@uwaterloo.ca. Sincerely,
Fiona Lim Tung, BA (Hons) M.Arch LEED AP Lecturer University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering | School of Architecture Cambridge 7 Melville Street S. Cambridge, Ontario N1S 2H4 Phone: 519 888 4567 Fax: 519 622 3525
Yoon Hur
Designer + Architecture Student + Artist 2B Bachelor of Architecture Studies
Hello, my name is Yoon Hur. I am a second year student at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. I find beauty in human connections made through interactions and engagements. I believe such relationship can be built, not solely between the individuals, but also with works of art, artifacts, and one’s surrounding environment. My passion lies on designing through the exploration of architecture’s affective qualities in human experience; bringing life to a space. I am motivated, passionate, and truly eager to apply my creative ideas and collaborate with others to create new and exciting views of the world through the lens of architecture. Enjoy my collection of selected works!
CONTACT yoonhurr@gmail.com 905-325-0673
CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCES
Founder of Justice League (2015) - Successfully founded an organization with a partner and planned meetings with supervisors through calls and in person - Prepared and served food for South Ridge Homeless Shelter residents with fellow volunteers
University of Waterloo School of Architecture (2018-present) Cambridge, Ontario Laura Secord Secondary School (2014-2018) St. Catharines, Ontario
QUALIFICATIONS
• Reliable with excellent work ethic, and motivated towards achieving set goals and meeting deadlines in a timely manner
WORK EXPERIENCES
NBBJ New York Office (H+)-Architectural Intern (2020) - Updated floor plans documents for construction - Prepared presentation materials for meeting with clients - Produced rendered images and diagrams for a variety of projects
• Advanced skills in visual arts. Great experience with various mediums such as watercolour, acrylic, oil paint, pencil, marker and charcoal, along with numerous commissioned works and awards
American Eagle Outfitters-Brand Ambassador (2019) - Provided excellent customer service through engaging with the guests and clear communication with the coworkers - Handled money with accuracy and precision as a cashier
• Very good communication skills, both orally and in writing. Experienced in writing narratives and public presentations of projects. Fluent in English and Korean
McDonalds-Kitchen (2017-2018) - Efficiently completed kitchen duties in a fast paced environment - Sustained the work flow in the kitchen while managing multiple tasks concurrently with the crew
• Great adaptability to a changing work schedule/ routine and strong ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment
SKILLS
Math Tutor (2016) - Taught fellow high school students math concepts - Scheduled and organized meetings with students
DIGITAL
FABRICATION
- Rhinoceros - AutoCAD - V-Ray - Autodesk Revit - Adobe Creative Suite: - Illustrator - InDesign - Photoshop - Microsoft Office: - Word - Excel - PowerPoint
- Hand Drafting - Model Making: - foam cutting - wood working - CNC Miling - Laser Cutting - 3-D Printing
ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS
• A member of galt. publication (an independent student publication from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture) • Numerous art commissions from teachers, schoolmates, and acquaintances • Various artworks displayed and published in cafes, exhibitions and on-line articles
AWARDS
- Waterloo President’s Scholarship - President’s Scholarship of Distinction (average of 95%+) - Robert Kerr Scholarship - McDonald’s Scholarship - Edwin Infante - Ontario Scholar - CFUW Award (math, science & technology) - District of Niagara Academy for the Arts
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THE STERLING LIBRARY 2019
THE EVERGLADES CENTRE 2019
BLACK CREEK 2020
MICROSCOPE 2018
THE FUNCTION OF AFFECT 2019
THE CYCLE OF LIFE 2019
THE STERLING LIBRARY
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The Sterling Library consists of two programmatic system within the building; a library, as well as a studio for textile artists. There is a strong and close connection between the site and the library. Numerous studios, museums and galleries can be found around the site. The two rail roads create a division, separating the community/residential areas from an industrialized, developing urban district. This division creates a shell-like boundary within. Incorporating such statistics to the project, the main focuses were laid in the idea of a “shell�, and it also working as a circulation for the occupants.
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The books become a source of circulation in the Sterling Library, playing the role of leading and guiding the guests into and around the building. A double height bookshelf sits directly in the middle of the library, with continuous stairs wrapping around the perimeter. This system encourages the users to go to the second floor, exploring the building, and engaging with the community through the lounging areas and the displays of community art. This concept of openness is displayed through the minimum uses of walls, many big opening, atriums, and fixed glass walls. The atirums create a connection, both visual and experiential, between the textile studio and the library. Despite the clear separation of the programs, the staircase/bookshelf works as a threshold, connecting the areas together conceptually.
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With the unique design of the bookshelf being combined with the staircase, and moments created through numerous atriums, the Sterling Library provide occupants with a place to learn, experience, and create; a place of development and growth.
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Concept model
THE EVERGLADES RESEARCH CENTRE cooperative work: Yoon Hur / Monica Gutierrez
The Everglades Research Centre is an off the grid, low carbon research station. Located in the Florida Everglades, this research station provides an oasis for scientists who research various reptiles. The Everglades Research Centre was designed with the goal of achieving zero net energy, without compromising a comfortable living space for its occupants. With the Everglades being a hot and humid climate, passive cooling design strategies became very important to the design process. Shading devices, ventilation and cooling systems are some examples of this. The trees surrounding our station act as both passive heating and cooling devices, as they block the sun during the summer months, and lose their leaves to allow sun to shine into our building during the winter months. The incorporation of active systems is also key to our design. We provide PV and water collection systems to aid us in the goal of achieving zero net energy.
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PASSIVE COOLING
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First Floor
PASSIVE COOLING
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direct gain PASSIVE COOLING
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PASSIVE COOLING
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HEED and Climate Consultant was used to analyze shading the surrounding environment as well as to test how “green” the building was. With a goal of zero net energy, various components were applied that all green buildings need. Trees were added shading around the perimeter to mimic our site choice, blocking the excessive sun and heat, while also acting as a passive heating strategy because they lose their leaves in the shading winter months and allow the sun to shine into the building. The orientation of the station faces south. The white steel roofing membrane reflects light away from our shading building, minimizing heat absorbent and preventing the station from over heating. shading
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Steel Framing
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BLACKCREEK
layered history of botanical landscape
The Niagara region is one of the most fertile areas in Canada as it benefits from excellent soil and moderate temperature. Evergreen pines, spruce and cedar are some of the most common and dominant native species in Canada. Canadian vegetation became known through traveller’s reports, seeds being exported for cultivation in Europe, and through herbarium specimens being collected and distributed. Through Jacques Cartier’s voyages and his reports, species of eastern Canadian plants can be identified. He also had a significant role in introducing native species to the land of Europe. This project analyzes the different uses of green areas and the layering of environments formed throughout the years. This “disturbed” site consists of a river to the North and a creek flowing through the land. People have mostly resided near the water with bigger communities forming over the years. The Canadian woods are commonly dominated by deciduous species such as oak, maple and beech trees. They are, however, mainly found in maintenced areas in Black Creek by the water, yards, and roadverge where they have been left during the development of the site rather than the nearby woodlands due to the clearcutting and agriculture activities.
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MICROSCOPE
physical / visual study
This physical and visual studies on an ordinary object; a microscope, displays a more unique but fundamental understanding of the basics of architectural drawings. Through such studies, the movement and the essential physics behind the use of the equipment was derived. With such movements of the object studied upon, this abstraction became the foundation of designing a pavilion. The pavilion is situated on a hill, functioning as a staircase and a bridge for the occupants. The swirling motion, with the pivot point being in the center, creates not only an organic shape, but also works as a floor, wall, and a roof. With minor attachment of additional stair pieces, the pavilion presents people with sitting areas, a shaded cave-like wall, and a look out place. This sculptural pavilion, with the conceptual movement derived from a microscope, creates numerous moments as the occupants walk through and around it. This exercise includes a plan, elevation and sectional view of the microscope (top, front, cut view). The exploded axonometric was drawn physically by taking off the different elements used in constructing the microscope. While the other drawings are very technical, the movement drawing takes more of a conceptual approach, as well as being presented abstractedly. The final physical model was made at a 1:50 scale. The orthographic projections were solely taken from the eye, and drawn entirely by hand with no use of digital programs.
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O RT HOG RA P H IC D RAW I NG S
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physical model 1:50 conceptual collage
THE FUNCTION OF AFFECT
durational space in architecture and cinema
The Function of Affect is a project in which cinematic affects are translated into interior places, using architectonic elements derived from the clips. The three films used were Dreams (Kurosawa), Persona (Bergman), and In the Mood for Love (Kar-wai). Rather than simply recreating the scenes in a literal manner, or interpreting the narrative, the focus lies on the affective forces which create the moving atmosphere through the unfolding sequences. The elements include lighting, volume, materiality, rhythm, etc. The three, interconnected interior spaces provide the occupants an experience of a journey ascending from a sophisticated, and heavy room, through a space of duality, which leads to a grand volume of opened space. Numerous sketches of this translation was made, as well as experimenting with different materials to create a space which capture the spatial dynamics through affective elements. The unfolded sequences from the clips form a promenade through the assembly of a physical model, along with the durational section drawing.
Dreams (Kurosawa)
Persona (Bergman)
In the Mood for Love (Kar-wai)
A little boy is walking through a misty forest by himself, as if he is searching for something, but seems rather confused by where the trail is leading him and is lost in the vast volume of space. The tall trees erecting from the cluster of bushes tower over the boy roaming around them; with the clip being filmed at eye level, the top of the trees are completely out of the frame. As the boy wanders through the plants, which come up almost to his height, small droplets of rain, sprinkles down. The sudden appearance of the fog takes the boy by surprise, and a strange group of women and men march out from it in unison; moving in sync. Their repetitive, rhythmic steps, along with the dim sunlight penetrating through the thin fog, exude a mysterious atmosphere.
This black and white clip contains two women’s movements and use of a space, captured in one singular shot, at a fixed point of view. One is laying down on a bed in a dark room, while the other shifts through the rooms, entering, exiting, and re-entering the dark, main room; the thresholds which the girl walks through in and out are opened passage ways with no actual doors. It appears to be morning, with the scene of a girl sleeping in bed, along with luminous light radiating from numerous directions fills up the further rooms in the back and shining against the curtains and the girl. The girl, who walks through different, empty volumes of spaces, make an appearance behind the blowing curtains, and moves in harmony with the motion of the curtains shifting from the breeze; this generates a peaceful, calm, but an eerie atmosphere. The dichotomy between the light and dark, airy and rigid, and the moving and the fixed is represented and exaggerated by the use of black and white, as well as the movements of not only the people, but the room, and the environment’s effect on the space itself.
The clip consists of multiple montages of videos with a couple of people engaging, and conversing with one another. The dark, but strong, colours of the interior walls along with the lack of natural and very little artificial lighting is only bright enough to leave an aroma of light surrounding its perimeter; having a great impact on the spatial sensation. The views of the people are never really clear in the clip, but rather always seen through some type of dividing element such as mirror, blinds, and curtains, creating a sense of surrealism, as if the montages are not happening in real life, but are rather one’s memories, and their reflection on the moments spent with someone. Despite the people’s movements through the spaces being fairly slow, and very mellow, the colours and the dim lighting of the interior provide a heavy, moody, and overall an intense atmosphere. The artifacts which can be seen in the daily lives of people living together such as beds, plates, and bottles of alcohol generate a melancholy feeling; they exist as if they each have stories to tell about the people, and how they have changed over time, in the memories in which they reminisce.
THE CYCLE OF LIFE:
discovering the true meaning and beauty of life and time
The columbarium draws in the occupants into the building with its threshold of columns; transitioning from life into the afterlife. As one walks in unison to the rhythm of the gradual expanding row of columns, they feel the weight of the burden of grief; the reality of the existence of death within life. One prepares to enter through cleansing themselves by washing their feet and hands. At the end of the columns one may choose to walk straight through the tall and heavy wall which opens up to a corridor of urns, while others turn into the sacred place where the souls reside; they are guided by the mellow movement of the water. Through this experience of the spiritual journey, one finds inner peace, enlightenment, and acceptance. The columbarium guides people with nature, and assists them to discover the true meaning and beauty of life and death.
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The place is dark, vast and empty, yet it is filled with emotions and those who are remembered. A field of sand is situated in the middle of the room, and is where one truly understands the unity of the relationship between life, death and time. The souls are visited and celebrated through the solemn ceremony of placing the urns to where the spotlights are created, while one rakes the sand, and creates an art of patterns revolving around the soul. But time is not static, nor are spirits and our existence on land. The location of the lights will change as time passes and the pattern of lines will never be able to be sculpted perfectly. Through this ritual act one begins to learn acceptance and bring comfort to their own spirit. Following the corridor, behind the heavy wall, one walks through a long, deep path with small stones. The sound of their footsteps, across the rocks echo between the tall walls of ashes, escaping to the sky. A moving, blurry wall stands at the end of the path but the noise is mute from here. Whether one chooses to enter the sacred room, or walk the path first, they are presented by a big volume of void and clarity. The light is refracted into the space through the ceiling and wall of water. All one now experience is the dancing light, the ringing sound of droplets hitting the water and the large space leading them back out to life.
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Physical Model 1:100
OTHER WORKS
professional / hand drafting
NBBJ New York Office (H+) 2020
PROJECTS: CPMC (Project of the Year) - Competition layout Tish ED Expansion - Floor plan study - Client meeting materials MGH (Massachusetts General Hospital) - Technical Excel spreadsheet - Interiors: diagrams, layout of furnitures, rendered images MSW (Mount Sinai) - Detail/technical drawings - Floor plan mark ups Elizabeth Seton Children’s - Renderings - Idea/concept development Wuhan Yanlord - Parti model making (images on the right)
YOON HUR
PORTFOLIO
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
THANK YOU
CONTACT yoonhurr@gmail.com 905-325-0673
2020