Ahran Won Portfolio

Ahran Won MLA l Harvard University Graduate School of Design Portfoilo 2016 MArch l School of the Art Institute Ahran of Chicago Won MLA I 2018 Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Academic Work Beauty of Architecture

: Map of accumulated thoughts

Seosengwon

: Rodents for soft reunification of Korea

Contrapuntal

: The two played simultaneously

Irregular City - Cold Medium of Urbanfabric : Re-imagining city grid with elevated pipe system

Ephemeral Piano Factory : Building that gets old

Abandoned Tree

: Sway with the wind

Kaleidospin

: Energetic roller derby stadium

Authentic Forest of Learning

: Columns instead of walls

Curated Serendipity_16v.01

: Planned but unexpected

Spirited Away at Franklin Park

: Planned but unexpected

Professional Work 2014-2018 Salesforce Transit Center & Park

: Landscape Architecture // Peter Walker Partners Landscape Architecture

EMC2 Hotel

: Architecture // KOO LLC

XEROX Building

: Architecture // Mekus Tanager Inc.

Dental Office Series

: Interior Architecture // Skeema

Our Lady of Hope

:Architecture // Mekus Tanager Inc.

Additional Work

: Photography, painting, sketching, drawing, and object design

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Ahran Won :: Harvard GSD :: School of the Art Institue of Chicago

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Looking out from one of the in-between-walls corners. A type of artificial walls has sometimes revealed structures that is transparent with glass, that reflects printed plant patterns on them.

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The view of the Piazza-inspired area where people can enjoy the sun. Brick pavings allow people to feel welcomed to sit freely. Trees and vegetation walls create contrapuntal contrast of natural and artificial.

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Neo-Spiritual City

Existing City 120’-0”

Clean water to the city pipe line Sewage Tank 28

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Level I Septic Tank

Sewage Tank

Level II Septic Tank

Salt Tolerancy High Spartina alterniflora | smooth cordgrass Max. Height: 2’-0” Salt tolerance: High Drought tolerance: Moderate Water required level: High Useful for stabilizing the slopes Wiry leaves and narrow panicle seed heads

Chamaecyparis thyoides | atlantic white cedar

Limonium | sea lavender Max. Height: 2’-0” Salt tolerance: High Drought tolerance: HIgh Water required level: Moderate Elegant beauty and color

Juniperus virginiana | eastern red cedar

Solidago sempervirens | seaside goldenrod Max. Height: 5’-0” Salt tolerance: High Drought tolerance: High Water required level: High Low Maintenance native

acer rubrum | red maple

Festuca rubra | red fescue Max. Height: 2’-0” Salt tolerance: HIgh / Moderate Drought tolerance: High Water required level:Moderate Makes a lovely naturalistic “Lumpy lawn” Disease free

Quercus bicolor | swamp white oak

Spartina patens | salt marsh hay

Fresh water collected from rain is used for purifying the sewage water collected from the piazzas and buildings

Salt Tolerancy Low

Max. Height 3’-0” Salt tolerance: HIgh / Moderate Drought tolerance: HIgh Water required level: Moderate Provides food and cover to a number of animals

Juncus gerardii | saltmarsh rush grass

Betula populifolia | grey birch

Rain water collected

Max. Height 2’-0” Heat tolerance: Low Drought tolerance: Moderate Water required levelL High Useful for stabilizing the slopes Wiry leaves and narrow panicle seed heads

Hydrangea macrophylla | bigleaf hydrangea Max. Height: 6’-0” Salt tolerance: Low Drought tolerance: Low Water required level: High Useful as a specimen plant, groupings, and foundation plantings

Vegetation are planned and expected to grow around the low points as ecological centers Level I Septic Tank

Water Collector

Pipe system potentially allows the ocean water to appear at several spot of inland low points Ilex verticillata | common winterberry Max. Height: 15’-0” Salt tolerance: Low Drought tolerance: Low Water required level: High The fruit eaten by many species of birds and mammals (Poisonous to humans)

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View from the Printers Row, the building will stand across from the Dearborn train station. Birds and migrating Monarch Butterflies would shelter on the facade of the building, among the gap that is created by the steel joist between glass panels and ETFE membranes. Building will grow old, weathering of the materials would gain new appearance of the piano factory over time.

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3D Render. Vine vegetation was introduced as the top of the structure being faced towards the light. The growth of the plant, rusting of the steel, and weathering of the fabric can show time.

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Interior view of the community area. It is exposed to natural lighting. The space is for users to engage with floor of the building by introducing floor shelves. It is imagined as a place where speed of day slows down through experiencing relaxing and bright environment.

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Sectional Approach_type 01 Tiered visibility on elevational view. By controlling the visibility level with the careful choice of vegetation, negative spaces were created in different density depending on the vegetation choices.

Sectional Approach_type 02 It is with elevation hierarchy. By implementing geometric orientation in sectional study, creating the hierarchy between plants as well as the depth of foreground, mid ground, and background.

Sectional Approach_type 03 Anticipating Morphosis. By selecting the plants that morphs through environment the most and shape the intended but unexpected openings throughout the site.

Sections are showing the break of the wall at each location, where the vegetation and walls overlap. It is the transitional moment between two materials, and they create atmospheric experience as you walk along the wall. Cockspur Hawthorn trees are easily effected by wind and the formation of their shape is expected to show the distorted curve effected by the wind direction.

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The view of the wall opening with European Hornbeam hedges. The height of the openings are adjusted as high enough to prevent trespass but low enough to get through. Gravel makes pleasant and comforting sound as walking, and details of the wall and vegetation provides another subtle sensory experience. Sound will be bounced back from the wall or spread through the trees. Hawthorn trees will let down scattered sunlight on the ground to create beautiful shadows.

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01 _Corten channel under my feet

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02_ Corten channel on the walk way

03_ Corten channel at the entrance

04_ Corten channel from distance , registered by tree orientation

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The view near the circular structure that is proposed to be used as the Cherry tree forest. Water channels drawn in individual scale makes the park a place easy to navigate around.

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ADDITIONAL WORK MOVING CAPSULE

More info: www.wonorchidblossom.com

: How many is enough? What is the minimum that we can carry when moving? “You’re not the things you own. Free yourselves from the things.”

Ahran Won : Harvard GSD : School of the Art Institute of Chicago

PAINTING

SKETCHING

PHOTOGRAPHY

DRAWING

Ahran Won : Harvard GSD : School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Ahran Won

wonorchidblossom@gmail.com www.wonorchidblossom.com

Ahran is from South Korea, working as an architectural designer and a landscape designer based in US. She enjoys investigating design in different scales from small objects to buildings to landscape.

Ahran is interested in developing spatial design idea through analyzing theories and historic data. From the resources, she derives the unique methods of designing spaces and creates heuristic agenda.

She believes in the optimistic results of research and design, while creating spaces that progressively effect human psychology. Ahran worked at Peter Walker Partners Landscape Architecture in California, Skeema in Cambridge, KOO LLC and Mekus Tanager Inc. in Chicago.

She holds a Master Degree in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Masters of Architecture degree from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Bachelors of International Studies degree from Ewha Woman’s University.