Chungnam, Korea[commissioned] The site is located in a depopulated rural town tucked under small mountains. Ironically, the only place we could build was where the five existing luscious cherry blossom trees were. Instead of constructing architectural features, we decided to build a backdrop to highlight these existing natural elements as the main features. We […]
Chungcheongnam-do, Korea[finalist, invited competition]
Yeoido, Korea[competition entry]
Seoul, Korea The strategy of the Pyeongchang Larchiveum is to preserve the original slope of the site, providing a new natural experience defining the Arts Complex. By working with the character of the slope, construction costs can be minimized. Secondly, the strategy creates a path of movement that encompasses both the urban and natural character […]
Heyri, Korea [ AIANE Design Award, AIA/BSA Honor Award, American Architecture Award ] The White Block Gallery is a 1500m2 exhibition and cultural space at the heart of the Heyri Art Valley in South Korea. A matrix of 3 solid gallery volumes carefully positioned creates 7 additional galleries in a compact but open ended configuration. Designed […]
Heyri, Korea [ Featured in Domus and the CreatorsProject ] ‘Cloud’ is an interactive light and sound sculpture that takes what is usually secretive one-way surveillance data and turns it into public art. By tracking to the movement of passerbys as well as to the dynamically changing weather patterns of the Heyri Art Valley, three […]
Gainesville, Florida[ 2nd Place, National Competition ] The needs of museums are shifting: Instead of merely being places of display, they are becoming places of interactive learning that promote multidisciplinary, synthetic ways of thinking. Many institutions like the CADE are also shifting the definition away from the passive to the active tense with the mission […]
Seoul, Korea[Competition Entry]
Shinan, Jeonnam Province, South Korea[competition]
Seoul, Korea[finalist, invited competition] Water, digital technology, and sustainability are merged in this new reinterpretation of the iconic but now underutilized Seoul Olympic Stadium. A temporary structure to house the international Seoul Design Olympiad (SDO) events, an inflatable arch is held away from the structure of the historic stadium. Through a simple process of condensing […]
Prague, Czech Republic [international competition, jury selection] As both a secure repository of books and a symbolic civic building, a national library must negotiate the spatial dichotomy between storage and display. Through a strategy of ‘light monumentality’ the book stacks are formed into a curved two-way truss that protects and defines a public winter-garden […]
Gwangju, Korea [honorable mention, international competition] The act of encircling has both literal and metaphorical meanings: In an urban environment like Gwangju, encircling implies both the demarcation of a special precinct within the city’s existing fabric as well as the creation of a new public common ground. Providing a porous, non-hierarchical edge to the urban […]
