BORDERLESS YUJU KANG | SELECTED WORKS 2022-2023
University of Pennsylvania
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LEAKING GARDEN
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URBAN RELIEF | PUBLIC MARKET
TUNNEL VISION
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MICRO//MAX | URBAN HOUSING
SECTION OF TRANSCENDENCE
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BORDERLESS: Blending Boundaries Boundary creates philosophy with space and defines the space.
BRIDGE
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PIPE DREAMS | CHAMBERS
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PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART EXTENSION
Walls, as the boundary for buildings, often limit people's activities in specific areas. Architecture is no longer a building consisting of interior spaces with walls. Boundaries should be guidelines, not fixed barriers. Different boundaries should blend into each other to create more cohesive spaces, expanding people's activities. Every project in this portfolio reflects the core idea of "Blending Boundar-
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ies" in various ways, whether by form integration, material exploration, context expansion, or program hybridization. Rather than the projects defined as different types of buildings, such as markets, museums, or housing projects, they should be observed as a whole and focused on the specific elements that soften the building enclosure and expand beyond the urban context.
Cover page created from ARCH 601 Design Studio, initial unit cluster rendering
Yuju Kang
University of Pennsylvania
Weitzman School of Design
LEAKING GARDEN
Spring 2023
LEAKING GARDEN URBAN RELIEF | PUBLIC MARKET
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Leaking Garden is an urban market space in Philadelphia specifically for the Callowhill neighborhood. This project explores the urban conditions of the city by studying the relationship between the figure and the ground. Developed with specific methodologies, Leaking Garden brings decayed space to life. The leakiness will eventually expand beyond the site and spread the spirit of the marketplace, bring the exiled program to life again.
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ARCH 502 | Spring 2023 Andrew Saunders Individual Callowhill, PA
The market design is developed with three core concepts: Urban Relief The studio began by developing three different types of relief inspired by Louis Nevelson. Architectural language is developed from the figural relationship that the relief creates with the sute context. Industries for the Fourth Industrial Revolution The market is specifically for the bakery industry, differentiating from ordinary industries with advanced programs such as cellular agriculture lab and food 3d printer room. Material Defamiliarization The primary material highly related to the program is “yeast.” These diverse “yeast gardens” from material defamiliarization are not only visually pleasing to attract and bring people to the market, but also can be used for research labs for high-tech programs.
Yuju Kang
University of Pennsylvania
Weitzman School of Design
LEAKING GARDEN
Spring 2023
Callowhill Artifact Reliefs & AI Reliefs (Left) Plan (Right)
Creating three types of relief sculpture by using artifacts collected in Callowhill neighborhood shows the understanding of the key elements and strategies that differentiate bas, high and figural reliefs. The images on top row show bas - high figural reliefs starting from the right.
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Producing AI-generated reliefs (bottom row), derived from these relief sculptures, creates a robust architectural language by defining different “bubbles” occupying specific areas with distinct frames around them. A solid bracket or frame that holds the courtyards (”bubbles”) gives different spatial experiences. The concept of the site relief progressively changed from “merging” to “spilling” and then to “leaking.”
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Weitzman School of Design
LEAKING GARDEN
Spring 2023
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Entrance & Interior view (Left) Site Axon (Right) Yuju Kang
University of Pennsylvania
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LEAKING GARDEN
Spring 2023
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Model Photographs
Yuju Kang
University of Pennsylvania
Weitzman School of Design
TUNNEL VISION
Fall 2023
TUNNEL VISION MICRO//MAX | URBAN HOUSING
ARCH 601| Fall 2023 Gisela Baurmann Individual Queens, NY
This studio proposes an urban housing project facing the East River in Queens, New York. The project explores the idea of integrating the human housing system with the non-human habitat system, specifically creating spaces for the cohabitation of humans and armadillos.
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Armadillos are known to be unwelcomed animals because they disrupt courtyards and damage walls or fences, which challenges this project on solving how to bring repelling habitats, humans and armadillos, together yet separate them at the same time. Recently, there have been some positive articles about how “friendly” armadillos can be to humans, which shows the potential of having an environment where humans and armadillos live “together”.
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Starting from studying microscopic images of armadillo shields, units are developed in a way that they interlock with each other and can be used in various ways from different orientations. The entire housing complex consists of two connected towers and townhouses towards the water, which are distinctive.
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Yuju Kang FLOODABLE
OPEN SAVANNA
CLOSED SAVANNA
FOREST
Weitzman School of Design
TUNNEL VISION
Fall 2023
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Entire Floor Plan Scale 1/16” = 1’ Third floor plan showing the interaction between apartment units and armadillo spaces. Yuju Kang
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TUNNEL VISION
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30” 32”
UNIT 6
44” 30”
UNIT 7
UNIT 5
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(ADA Compliant Unit)
UNIT 8
UNIT 4 UNIT 3
UNIT 1
(ADA Compliant Unit)
UNIT 2
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5’-5” 3’-1/8”
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Unit Axon & Floor Plan 48”
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Axonometric and floor plan drawings of apartment units from a typical unit cluster. At least 20% of the total number of apartment units consist of ADA-compliant units.
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Detailed Section
Transverse Section Scale 3/32” = 1’ Yuju Kang
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Facade Studies (Left) Public Commons Axon (Right)
The studio proposes a community justice courthouse for the main public common space. The warehouse on the lower level is renovated to create transitional space between the towers and the warehouse, as well as providing spaces for the courthouse. The core is located in the center, and the courthouse programs and units are organized along the East River. Circular tunnels are the main interlocking spaces, which are programmed to be public corridors that lead people from the core of the tower out to the public terraces.
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Chunk Axon Yuju Kang
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Facade Study Model (Left) Unit Cluster Model (Right)
Double skin facade covering the front side of the tower provides natural ventilation and vertical spaces for social interactions between the units. Each unit has a balcony with a glass enclosure, louvers, and “bubbles,” which create another layer of enclosure. These translucent bubbles cover two-floor heights of the building.
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Chunk Model Photographs Yuju Kang
University of Pennsylvania
Weitzman School of Design
SECTION OF TRANSCENDENCE
Fall 2022
SECTION OF TRANSCENDENCE PIPE DREAMS | CHAMBERS
ARCH 501 | Fall 2022 Daniel Markiewicz Collaboration with Loopz Lopez, Yousef Almana and Jing Yan
Continue investigating piping techniques with the design and construction of Sarcophagus for previously departed containers project.
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A chamber project to remember the death of each team member’s container projects. This is a sarcophagus that captures different impressions towards death, whether it is joyful or mournful. Our team took a section of the path of transcendence where the dark exterior expresses grief, and the bright colorful relief interior celebrates the new chapter of life. The model is on a full scale, measured 4’x4’x6’. The structure is built entirely from wood products, and reliefs were created with styrofoam, plaster, and paint. Lastly, PVC pipes cage our colored coffins, playing between mass and framework.
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Weitzman School of Design
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Yuju Kang
University of Pennsylvania
Weitzman School of Design
BRIDGE
Fall 2022
BRIDGE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
ARCH 501| Fall 2022 Daniel Markiewicz Individual Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art Extension with Kayak facilities. The main goal of an art museum is to connect people with art as a public institution. Therefore, their mission is to function as a bridge that connects the public and art world and my project is a further manifestation of this concept of the bridge.
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A bridge can be interpreted in two ways. First, as a noun “bridge”, the museum itself can be a bridge that connects different areas of the site as well as the surrounding buildings. Then, bridge as a verb, “bridging”, my project consists of ten different cubic modules that are bridging together. In other words, this project takes the idea of “bridge” and deploys it in three aspects, which are form, program and finishings. Modules are developed from the previous project where I took a portion of the panels from the chambers project and modified them into cubic modules. The aggregation of ten modules eventually forms a single mass that shows a disjointed manner since they do not perfectly fit into each other. However, once people enter the building, the transition of interior spaces will remove the awkwardness from the exterior, which creates a distinct contrast between exterior and interior spaces. One of the main strategies for bridging these modules is to use some of the gestures presented on the facade.
Yuju Kang
University of Pennsylvania
Weitzman School of Design
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BRIDGE
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Entrance Lobby/Front desk Outdoor exhibition space Cafe bar Indoor sitting Outdoor sitting Kayak center Kayak storage Office Restroom
Ground level Outdoor wooden ramp
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Indoor ramp
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8 Rough marble texture with merging colors and patterns
First Floor Plan
Choisy Drawing
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BRIDGE
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Model Photographs The finishing of the facade also indicates the bridging concept since the merging movement of the multiple colors reflects a strong integration of different colors and patterns, which them suggests the bridging moment happening inside. Yuju Kang
University of Pennsylvania
Weitzman School of Design
INTERWEAVE
Fall 2022
Figure eight knot
INTERWEAVE CAST&CARVE | CONTAINER 8”
This studio begins with two and a half weeks of exercise to explore the framework of the pipes. A cast object is setted and protected by the piped or framing model, demonstrating a relationship between the form of the cast object and the framing model. This relationship is also presented by the color composition, expressing the merging movement.
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ARCH 501| Fall 2022 Daniel Markiewicz Individual
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Silhouette & Orthographic drawings (Left) Isometric
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Model Photographs (Right) Drawing composition demonstrating the conceptual and geometric ideas embedded in this project. Yuju Kang