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Jung Geun (Danny) Lee
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EDUCATION
Master of Architecture
University of Sydney, AU
Bachelor of Architecture and Environments
University of Sydney, AU
Architecture B.D.A
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
Pre-Professional Architecture
Iowa State University, USA
High School Graduation Certificate
Dongsan High School, Daejeon, South Korea
MILITARY & CAREERS
MARS Architects
Architectural Assistant (3D Modeling & Render)
Sergeant - Military Vehicle Driver
The 1st Artillery Brigade, South Korea
AWARDS
Fall 2016 Dean's List
Teaching Assistant for product drawing
Spring 2016 Dean's List
Iowa State University
Rhinoceros 7
Illustrator
SketchUp 2024 Grasshopper Revit Vray
Tropical Hanok
University of Sydney, Semester 2, 2nd year of Master, 2024
Refugee Atelier
University of Sydney, Semester 1, 2nd year of Master, 2024
360 Student Housing
University of Sydney, Semester 1, 1st year of Master, 2023
Calm of the Storm
University of Sydney, Semester 2, 3rd year of Bachelor, 2022
I was born in South Korea in 1995 and went to the United States to study after graduating from high school. I am a designer who design creative architecture based on experience and inspiration from architectures in various countries. I am especially interested in how to design a building and its surrounding environments harmoniously.
JUNG GEUN (DANNY) LEE
TROPICAL HANOK
Nusantara, Indonesia
As the Indonesian government announces Nusantara as its new capital, the existing Korean embassy will also have the opportunity to relocate there. The project will reinterpret the traditional Korean house, Hanok, in consideration of Nusantara’s concept, culture, and geography. The Korean embassy will have the potential to better promote its country to Indonesians who are interested in Korea, and as a result, it will bring diplomatic benefits.
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Background Knowledge of Indonesia
Nusantara is an area located in East Kalimantan, and is mostly covered with vegetation. The government plans to make this place an eco-friendly and sustainable city, and is envisioning a city that coexists with the vegetation of Nusantara. The design will be appropriate to coexist without damaging the surrounding vegetation, and at the same time, it will be designed to be an embassy that symbolizes the country.
Additionally, digital industries such as K-pop and dramas are some of the most popular in Indonesia, however, despite their demand to learn about Korea’s wonderful culture outside of the digital industry, there are few organizations or places that deal with it. Therefore, in order to promote Korea more, the embassy will present an open and friendly image to the public.
Hanok, which is Korean tradtional house, is not only one of the best options to satisfy these two requirements, but it is also the building that best represents Korea. Hanok is a house built based ‘feng shui’ theory which is a philosophy that governs wind, water, and land, and studies how humans can coexist with these elements. The embassy will be designed through a process of selecting the four strengths of Hanok and reinterpreting them to fit the Indonesian environment and modern times.
Hanok - 4 elements
Hanok is mostly built as a single-story, eventually, the ratio of the roof and the building façade has 1:0.8 to 1:1.
Hanok always has a Madang, and it is traditionally bare ground made of sand or gravel. Madang was not only a place for individual activities at home, but also an open space for the public, which became a device to make each other more united.
Hanok is a wooden structure and has continuously evolved to create a stable form. Hanok became an eco-friendly and renewable building.
The Maru is a void space and a connection between the outside and the inside. It also served as a frame for looking at nature from inside the house, allowing the wind to naturally come and go and ventilate.
Madang
Maru
Reinterpretation
Hanok always levels the ground, even on sloping terrain. Therefore, embassy’s two buildings’ place was flattened in order to follow style and structure of Hanok on sloping grounds. When visitors enter the embassy through the main entrance, they are faced with two hanoks on different levels, allowing them to experience a Korean atmosphere.
In the past, it was impossible to construct a building mixed with Hanok due to lack of technology, but with its development, various types of buildings are designed. The embassy Hanok style building has a flat concrete slab due to the Madang in the middle, which has the opportunity to become the ceiling of another building. However, If the structure beneath the Hanok follows the same design, it will appear to be a two-story Hanok, which is not in keeping with the overall proportions that the Hanok is trying to achieve.
Therefore, by constructing the building using completely different materials, which is concrete, it is intended to create a complete contrast with the Hanok and make the two buildings look separate. Additionally, by maintaining the Hanok grid, the building’s facade is lined with concrete columns that resemble Hanok columns. This creates a sense of harmony and contrast between the two architecturally different structures.
1:200 physical model
View from main entrance
Design Process
1. Topography
The embassy is located on sloping terrain with a roughly 10-meter height difference, and it is reachable by road from both the north and the south.
4. Program
The Embassy Hanok requires a flat site due to the Madang, thus, two concrete slabs are placed where the buildings will be located.
5. Circulation
Square shaped Hanok with Madang is placed on the concrete slab respectively.
Different style of buildings under the Hanok is for personal uses or offices such as back offices or residential housing. On the other hand, Hanok serves primarily as a public area for embassy guests, offering them a more relaxed setting and easier communication.
The sloping site changes slightly depending on the location of the building and is designed to provide easy access to the building by car and on foot.
2. Foundation
3. Hanok Style
Module
Hanok has many variations such as L-shaped, square-shaped, and U-shaped, but it basically has a structure of several rooms connected. Therefore, the interior of a relatively large Hanok has a repeated composition. The exterior form of a Hanok is determined by the program, and this point was reinterpreted and borrowed for the design of the embassy.
Entrance/Maru
Zoning
First, the form of the embassy is arbitrarily divided into several repeated sections, and then the programs are designated. The appropriate form of the façade is determined and arranged according to the designated program. The façade was reinterpreted with inspiration from four of the frequently used exterior wall forms of Hanok.
Building A
Building B
Section A
1. Cafe & Kitchen
Lobby & Reception
Counter 4. Consul General’s Office 5. Madang
Interview Room 7. Library
Function Hall
Meeting Room
Back Office
Private Office 6. Entrance Hall & Reception 1. Driver’s Rest Area
Meeting Room
Open-plan Office Space
Section B
1. Meeting Room 2. Reception & Lobby 3. Entrance Hall (Maru)
4. Chief of Staff Office 5. Madang 6. Dining Area & Servery
7. Ambassador’s Office
8. Salon
Building B - Basement Plan
4. Back Office 5. Private Office
6. Entrance Hall & Reception
1. Driver’s Rest Area 2. Meeting Room 3. Open-plan Office Space
REFUGEE ATELIER
1 Rainbow St, Kingsford NSW 2000
‘Refugee Atelier’ is a refugee housing art centre designed to be a sanctuary of inclusivity, where the art becomes a medium for community engagement and support for refugees. This space is envisioned as a vibrant hub where music, visual arts and literature serve as the mediating narrative for a storage of hope and unity whihle embodying sustainable development principles.
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Refugee Atelier
Address 7 Rainbow St, Kingsford NSW 2000
Area 7000 m²
Program Hotel, residence, community centre
Art as a Narrative
The site is highly accessible with a light rail station located adjacent to the site with multiple bus stops surrounding. The area is filled with educational institutions such as UNSW and several public schools, along with accessible daycare centers and healthcare facilities such as the Prince of Wales Hospital.
Art is a universal language that has evolved alongside humanity since the beginning. Art transcends cultural and linguistic barriers, enabling people from diverse cultures and backgrounds to communicate and connect. Through art - from one person to a person, from a culture to another, a sense of spiritual connection is weaved through intangible human qualities such as emotional expressions and memories. Hence, the concept of ‘art’ was chosen as a responsive language to communicate and build bridges across the distinct separation between the alienated refugees and the overwhelming environment of their newly met culture they must learn to adjust to.
The architectural journey encompasses three different branches of art; music, visual arts and literature. Each of these art bodies is breathed into the bottom layer of the program, where the organic nature of humps and curvatures express the vividness of journeying throughout the future as a community that is brought together through art.
Design Principles
1:500 massing model
Design Process
1. Site Extrusion
Void
Community Function
Refugee Residences
Public Circulation
Exploded Axonometric with Circulation
The architecture of the project is divided into two forms; the organic and the rigid, where the void between the ground and the upper is distinguished. The community space constantly engages with collective human experience - it is where the connection between people is made and cultures are exchanged. Hence, the life of the community space is defined by how the people meet and use the functions. The heart of the design, the concept of art, manifests within this environment as visual, music and literature through art galleries, musical theatre and an opened library.
1. Vertical Circulation
Music Theatre 2. Internal Art Gallery
Library 3. Courtyard
External Art Gallery
Section
ANZACPARADE ARADE
WALLACE ST
Elevation
The chosen facade is a hand-cranked louvre system that consists of horizontal shading blades which rotate. The stacked blades open and close like a screen providing sun shading at all times of the day to control solar heat gain and adapt to each user’s comfort needs. It also allows natural ventilation as unwanted heat rises through the vertical cavity between the glazing and louvres. This is an environmentally friendly and passive design strategy which reduces the demand on HVAC systems and carbon emissions.
1. Timber Flooring
2. 20mm Yellowtongue
3. 25mm Acoustic Insultion
4. 140mm Clt
5. 25mm Soundproof Soffit Board
6. 40mm Thermal Insulation Board
7. 13mm Plasterboard
8. 13mm Plasterboard
9. 100mm Clt
10. 40mm Insulation
11. 10mm Fc Caldding
12. Timber Decking
13. Waterproof Membrane
14. Stainless Steel
360 Student Housing
481 Wilson St, Eveleigh NSW 2015
With the upgrade of Redfern station’s South Concourse, there is a need to improve accessibility and connection between the land, the Precinct and the railway station. Student housing is part of an emerging phenomenon known as “student co-living,” the main objective is to create a shared living space for students to live in, connect and share resources.
Refugee Atelier
Address 481 Wilson St, Eveleigh, NSW 2015
Area 1800 m²
Program Student Accommodation
The 360 student housing is located at 481 Wilson St Eveleigh, Redfern and is part of the paint workshop precinct. The site symbolises the technological, administrative, social and cultural development that contributed to the transition from steam to electrical powered operation.
1. Site Extrusion 2. Solar Access 3. Double Height
Public Space
The ground floor design consists of a double-height open public space with glulam posts spanning across the ground floor in conjunction with a central inner courtyard, opening up into the streetscape. By creating a large expanse volume, it is possible to effectively connect the community to the urban landscape by providing a public seating area, study areas, communal areas and recreational facilities to facilitate public participation in the urban landscape. participation in the urban landscape.
Unit Plan
On each level, there are 20 single student units - each with a shared common space and kitchen amenities - all placed systematically between the glulam posts. Each unit is arranged to have a balcony that overlooks the inner courtyard or neighbouring buildings. Additionally, the curtain wall facades are designed through the open communal space to allow maximum north light into these activation spaces. In addition, it creates a transparent threshold between the inner streetscape and Redfern railway.
With a 3 x 7m parameter, each student unit contains a private bathroom, a single bedroom, and a study table that views the balcony through a floor-to-ceiling glass sliding door. The partition walls comprise 160mm loadbearing CLT panels with a plasterboard finish.
Façade Axonometric
Interior Physical Model
1. 10mm gypsum board, finish ceiling
2. 30mm dry screed
3. 60mm cardboard and sand layer
4. 130mm CLT panel
5. 70mm mineral wool
6. Steel channel
7. Primary structural steel beam
8. Ø65mm copper rainwater outlet
9. Balcony timber decking
10. Galvanised steel balcony drip tray
11. Galvanised aluminium mesh balustrade
12. 1mm thick aluminium panel soffit
13. 200 x 90 x 30mm PFC
Featured in these images are about sectional view of a 1:20 physical unit model, illustrating the atmosphere between the enclosed unit and the outdoor balcony. Occupants are provided with views of the natural environment which can improve concentration and focus. At the same time, providing students with a calming and peaceful environment reduces distractions and enhances cognitive function. Jarrah timber battens are fixed onto CLT panels to prevent occupants from being disrupted by the downpipe system; furthermore, the timber battens’ intention is to create a layer of weatherproofing.
CALM OF THE STORM
This project started with the idea of how a building can have two contrasting atmospheres. The storm has terrifying power enough to destroy everything and provides fear. On the other hand, the eye of the storm in the middle is very quiet and serene. The building was designed with inspiration from the storm, which has such a contrasting atmosphere.
Visitors will be able to experience both darkness and brightness inside the building, which has a seemingly solid and heavy atmosphere, and furthermore, can enjoy panoramic views of Canberra's Arboretum from the top of the building.
Dairy Farmers Hill Lookout at National Arboretum Canberra, 95 Forest Drive, ACT 2611
Concept Development
Looking at the duality of states within a hurricane, our design aims to explore the idea of the calm, or eye, within the storm. Located on Dairy Farmers Hill, in the Canberra Arboretum, this message is especially poignant, due to the site having recovered after a large firestorm that removed a large majority of the existing trees. Designed as a collection of "100 forests", the Arboretum is home to a large variety of endangered tree species, and in many ways as a rehabilitated landscape, can also be seen as the calm after the storm. Similary, tree rings also inspired the shapes of the exterior elements, whilst further connecting the tower to the site conceptually.
Dairy Farmers Hill Lookout at National Arboretum Canberra, 95 Forest Drive, Molonglo Valley, ACT, Australia
Proposed Folly
Eye of the Storm Vertical Concept Tree Rings
Structural Development Progress
Using an undulating and seemingly irregular curved facade, differently rotated precast concrete rings are the main material used in this design. Although appearing to be all different, geometrical interest can be created by using a standard ring shape that extends out on only one side and then rotating it. This is simplifies the construction process, as well as allowing a large number of the components to be produced off-site from what is generally a tourist attraction.
The solid nature of the concrete is contrasted by the thinner, intermingled curves of corten steel, which connect the tower to the
materiality of some of the surrounding sculptures as well as the colours of the nearby pavilions. Held in place using anchors, they are attached at a distance to the concrete elements placed directly below.
The primary structure is composed out of universal steel columns, connected to the ground with concrete footings, and with smaller steel beams bolted across to provide lateral support. Brackets are then used to attach facade elements onto the main structure, as well as the floorplate and spiral staircase.
1. Primary Structure
Views from the top floor
2. Precast Concrete Rings
3. Veils
4. Corten Strips
Ground Floor
Transition Space
First Floor
Section & Details
Lateral support
9.53mm x 95.2mm Galvanized wedge anchor
M10 x 35mm Hex bolt and nut
3 mm Corten steel strip
Precast concrete rings
100 x 100 x 8 x 150mm M12 Structural angle bracket
152 x 152 x 12000mm Hot dipped galvanised steel I beam 150 UC 23.4
M12 x 45mm Hex bolt and nut
Looseweave polycotten blend veil
E311J-08(M8) Turnbuckle jaw/jaw 150 x 150mm Sail mounting plate
55mm Tension Spring
34 .9mm x 38.1mm x 38.1mm U Bracket M8 x 55mm Hex bolt and nut 3mm Aluminum expanded metal mesh
M6 x 20mm Hex bolt and nut 3mm Steel plate
M16 Hex nut
250 x 250 x 10mm Square steel plate
M16 x 300mm Anchor L-bolt
Concrete slab foundation
Construction to be set within existing concrete platform; soil beyond scope of section
Exploded Axonometric - Structural
Secondary Structure
Floor plate for live loads and some lateral bracing
Meterial Catalogue
Precast concrete Corten strips
9.53mm x 95.2
Galvanised wedge anchor
100 x 100 x 8 x 150mm M12 Structural angle bracket
Tertiary Structure
Primary Structure
Principal vertical loadbearing structure
Secondary Structure
Tertiary Structure
Secondary Structure
Tertiary Structure elements
Principal lateral loadbearing structure plate for live loads and some bracing Connection holding facade elements elements
Circulation
The storm elements are also accentuated on the lower floor of the interior of the tower. Upon entering, one is faced with differently tensed trampoline floors, making the first journey into the space a little less certain. The more tightly stacked rings of corten and concrete allow only for some irregular lighting to enter through, especially with the addition of three semi-transparent fabric veils, suspended from the structure. The permeable nature of the tower allows for the wind to interact with the fabric, creating a kinetic flow of movement within the tower.
The storm slowly dissipates upwards, as one ascends the spiral staircase. The number of rings reduces, as do their thicknesses, allowing more light to enter the space. Once at the top level, one is encapsulated in 360 degree views, looking out towards the beautifully designed landscape. Nature in this moment provides a moment of stillness, reflection and calm, with simply the bare essentials for structure remaining.
