worksample 2012

Kyung h. Won M.ARCH LEED AP BD+C

264 4th street. Palisades Park, NJ 07650201.647.2976 [email protected]

MiMA: 42nd St. and 10th Ave. New York, NY Ismael Leyva Architects 2008

The MiMA is a development in which a ‘Manhattan city block is designed as one building’ by The Related Companies. The podium consists of different programs such as two residential entrances - one for the rentals and one for the condo - a hotel lobby, a theater lobby, a health club lobby, a parking entrance and a loading dock, and retails at the corners. The main design of the ground floor was to coordinate the adequate entrance and lobby for each program and its vertical circulation. The two towers consist of a 57 story resi-dential tower - rental units with affordable housing and condo units - and a 24 story hotel tower. The design of the exterior facade has changed through few stages; initially using brick and glass material for the facade to all glass material facades at the end. I have worked as the Job Captain on the project from Schematic design to 70% CD documents in the Architect of Record office, coordinating with other designer parties, engineers and numerous consultants.



Samsung Life Insurance Building Mass Studies 2010

The three story commercial brick building is owned by the Samsung Life Insurance Company, but is planned as a commercial facility which will be rented to other Samsung cooperation or retailers. Therefore, the strategy was to design each program with a distinc-tive volume and material. The given programs were autonomous entities, but bound together under the company Samsung: a two-story furniture shop, a teahouse, a noodle bar restaurant, a Pilate’s center, a gallery, and a clinic. Another challenge was the question of how to connect the building to the hill next to it, which was part of Namsan Park. The concept of the design was to create an interior courtyard space by interlock-ing void spaces in section, and the retaining wall which supported the earth pressure of the hill, was designed as green space with engraved seating areas that became part of the inner courtyard design. I worked through the whole Schematic phase finalizing the design of the project.



Reviving the Void: Family of Individuals Thesis Project 2012

The thesis project started with a research about Korean traditional housing typologies ‘hanok’ and the urban formation and develop-ment of the city Seoul. The modern Korean history has a dynamic impact on the urban formation from the period of Japanese oc-cupation, through Korean War and the economic growth period, until now, the 1-person household city in 2012. In each period, the change in architectural housing typology and urban form has been examined, and a new housing prototype is proposed for the increasing number of 1-person households now. Since 80% of the 1-person household is defined under low-income, a high dense low-rise urban fabric was selected for the site. The thesis proposal not only focuses on the typological transformation, but also sug-gests a new way of forming a family through space. The cultural and spatial concept of the traditional VOID space is revived in the new prototype to provide physical interaction and negotiations between the neighbors, who live alone in the city and start to form a new local family.

1876 enlightment period:opening the port to the foreign countries

1910 japanese colonialization

1945 korean liberation

1950-53 korean war

1970economical deveopment period

2012 1household city

~1876 traditional house: hanok

1912 planning of city blocks

1930 urban hanok

1960maru house

1980multi-family housing

1985multiplex housing

- ‘madang’- shared by a large family+ space buffer between man and woman

- ‘courtyard’- shared by more than two vfamilies+ space buffer between families- circulation space for the shared spaces, kitchen, bathrm and en-trance

- ‘maru’- shared by more than two families- circulation space for shared spaces, bathrm and entrance

-’ living room’- shared by one family+ space buffer be-tween family members- circulation to con-nect upper and lower

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- ‘void’- shared by individuals+ space buffer b/w individuals- shared by all the individuals in the housing- circulation

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Light Monumentality: Seoul International StationOption Studio 2011

The new International train station was proposed as an addition to the existing Seoul train station, which is located in the northern part of the Han River, in the center of the old district of Seoul city. In this neighborhood, the large scale train station and rails are cre-ating an urban island for the surrounding residential areas, which are surrounded by mountains on the other side. The design of the International train station was proposed as a local bridge for the regional neighborhood, but as well an interesting entrance point for the International travelers to enter the city, having several different access points to the city fabric. To build the starfish shaped hubs that connect the bridges, four structural tubes were leaned against each other in compression to create a void space in the center of the hub. Each structural tube slightly touches the ground to create a light, but monumen-tal space for the existing train platform areas, which are located below the hubs.



Micro-Atmosphere: Imaginary Tension FieldParticipating Designer, Gwangju Design Biennale 2009

The Korean Garden Soswaewon provides diverse experiences to the visitors to enjoy and play with its various spatial qualities: visual corridors through the forest, different air flows of natural ventilation, temperature change through the flow of convection, constant filtration of light and shadow, and the mingling sounds of bamboos, etc. These diverse experiences create an emotional space of Soswaewon, which closely ties together the human senses to the micro-natures of the garden.The installation of the tensioned field explored the experience of ‘rest’ in the material qualities of a spring and its relationship of forces, which was a metaphor of the micro-atmospheric rest - an architectural interpretation of the Korean Garden Soswaewon.

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