SsD has been selected as a finalist in an international competition in Incheon, Korea. We propose recovering Incheon's lost maritime history by recreating an inland sea around its Ahamdo island – now threatened to be infilled by adjacent urban development – allowing it to be an island once again. This sea will incorporate artificial reefs to shelter a delicate wetland […]
The Korea Society and SsD welcome Richard Nemeth, Principal of Kohn Pederson Fox, and Hyunjin Koo, Senior Manager of International Relations at Gale International. to discuss the Songdo International Business District Project in Korea. As the first in a series of lectures leading up to the Convergent Flux, Korea exhibit to be held at the […]
In the last year, we’ve been working with Clover on their food trucks and their new restaurant in Harvard Square. Boston area residents may have already visited one of the two Clover Food Lab Trucks that are on the roll, one in Kendall Square and the other in Dewey Square near South Station. For those of you that don’t know […]
Please join us for the lecture ‘Strategic Pairings’ by John Hong at the AIA Rhode Island’s 2010 Emerging Architect’s Forum. The event ‘Defining New Threads and Paths in Architecture’ will be held on October 29th from 6pm-9pm at the Rhode Island School of Design’s BEB Gallery, 231 South Main Street, Providence.
Please join us for a keynote presentation by Jinhee Park, AIA at the AIA state convention in Little Rock, Arkansas. The event will be held at the Statehouse Convention Center at 1 Statehouse Plaza on October 22nd at 11am.
The Hidden Fortune House is a a 350 square foot addition to an existing historic residence. The project’s dimunitive size is deceptive: Placed between the interior collective areas of the existing house and the exterior garden, it is conceived of as not an autonomous object, but as an extended frame that forms new spatial connections […]
Sprawling surburban lawns consume 60% of our domestic water use. Multiply this by 79 million detached single-family homes in the U.S. consuming an average of 107,000 gallons of water per year and we have a serious issue: not only in the amount of fresh water being expended (and it is not as renewable as one […]
It was around this time last year that we were working on the competition for White Block Gallery. Little did we know that not only would we win the competition, but that the work would proceed so quickly. The excavation has just been completed and the foundations will be poured in about a week.
SsD focused on sustainable low-rise / high-density urbanism for this new waterfront city south of Seoul. Although the design of the new urban parcels are strategically individualzed and limited in scale, as a whole they work in conjunction with each other in contributing to an overall energy and resource strategy: By working as a single entity rather than […]
Jinhee Park and John Hong lectured at IE University in Segovia, Spain as the final event in the ‘Acting Local, Acting Global’ series organized by professor Laura Martínez. A special thanks to Dean Javier Quintana, Associate Dean Jose María Churtichaga, and Martha Thorne for hosting SsD. The concept of ‘minimalism’ in architecture has taken on more […]
Please join us for Jinhee Park's lecture on Sustainable Minimalism at Korea University in Seoul, Korea at 1pm. The lecture will be held at the School of Architecture main auditorium.
SsD was one of 5 teams selected for an national RFP to design an urban beacon for historical Union Square in Somerville, MA.
