David Choe Architecture Portfolio
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David Choe Architecture Portfolio
David Choe
Summary
AUD $10B+
$320K+
9+
pipeline of project experience
average individual revenue generated at Jensen Hughes
years of experience consulting in the built environment
Architecture graduate with 9+ years consulting in the built environment: access and compliance advice on major public projects, then rollingstock integration on Queensland's Train Manufacturing Program.
Graduate of Architecture, Access Consultant, MBA
Timeline, 2009 to 2026 2009
I work where design intent meets regulation, contracts and people. Executive MBA, 95.22%.
2011
2013
2015
2017
2019
2021
2023
2025
Education
Quantic MBA
University of Sydney
Contents Professional Design Experience Student Works
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Experience
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Hyundai Rotem Morris-Goding
Philip Chun
Jensen Hughes Volunteer: Schoolyard Greenprint Project, 2024
Professional Experience
Education
Integration Lead, Rollingstock Engineering Team
Master of Business Administration (Executive)
Hyundai Rotem, Brisbane QLD Apr to Dec 2024
Quantic School of Business and Technology Feb 2025 to Jul 2026
Directed a 5-person cross-border design team to deliver a compliance-capable prototype for Queensland's $9.5B Train Manufacturing Program. Represented the firm at 12+ stakeholder workshops with government clients and advocacy groups.
Grade 95.22%. Strada Leadership, Quantic Impact and Powell scholarships. CEO of a 4-member cross-border team for the graduation project.
Senior Consultant, NSW BCA Team
The University of Sydney Mar 2009 to Oct 2015
Jensen Hughes Pacific (formerly BCA Logic), Sydney NSW Jul 2021 to Oct 2023
Studio, technology and professional practice units. Student works follow from page 4.
Managed the commercial and contract lifecycle across projects, generated $320K+ individual revenue, mentored new staff and led a post-merger integration of work processes and pricing. Consultant, NSW Access Team Philip Chun, Sydney NSW Oct 2017 to Jul 2021
Bid for nation-shaping projects including the Australian War Memorial Redevelopment, Western Sydney Airport Terminal and Sydney Metro stations. Highest invoicing among 3 consultants. Consultant, NSW Access Team Morris-Goding Access Consulting, Sydney NSW Dec 2014 to Sep 2017
Assessed statutory compliance for State Significant Development Applications, including Lendlease's ICC Sydney Hotel, and Public-Private Partnerships.
Master of Architecture and Bachelor of Design (Architecture)
Volunteer Experience Universal Design Advisor, Schoolyard Greenprint Project Invited by the University of Canberra 2024
Provided universal design advice on the project.
Skills Software: AutoCAD, Rhino, Adobe Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator). Regulation: professional knowledge of the Building Code of Australia (BCA), Disability (Access to Premises - Buildings) Standards and Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport. Business: 3-statement financial modelling, executive-level presentation development, stakeholder engagement across government and private clients. Languages: fluent in English and Korean.
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Lo-Fi Mock-up and User Testing
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Professional Design Experience Hyundai Rotem Queensland Train Manufacturing Program (QTMP)
1 Boarding with bicycles and a tricycle via the ramp
2 Cyclists and testers with the mock-up
3 Co-design process
Hi-Fi Mock-up
Employer
Hyundai Rotem
Role
Integration Lead, Rollingstock Engineering Team
Period
Apr to Dec 2024
Scale
$9.5B program, 65 new six-car trains
Team
Cross-border team of five
A Lo-Fi mock-up was built by Allweld and set up in Geebung, Brisbane. Disability sector members, passengers, train drivers and bike users tested layout and boarding early, as part of a co-design process. A full-scale Hi-Fi mock-up followed in 2025, a 38 m replica with a driver's cab and two carriages, testing level boarding, door thresholds, priority seating and wheelchair spaces. I directed the design team, represented the firm at 12+ stakeholder workshops and used the test feedback to inform contract variations.
4 Driver's cab and two carriages
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5 Doors open at platform level
6 Priority seating and wheelchair spaces
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Horizontal Fluidity The Gangnam Parasite eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2010
Entry
No. 0267, 2010
Type
Competition, team of four
Site
Gangnam, Seoul
Team
David Choe, Jenny Minjeong Kwon, Robert Baron Anderson, Rebecca Qin
2 Site: the Gangnam-daero and Teheran-ro intersection
3 Strategy: stacked canopy, frame and park plate over the city; biomimicry of canopy, dragonfly wing and cladding; continuous load path
1 Problem: a dense metropolis with no land left for burial
Death is usually disassociated from life. Seoul is one of the most densely populated cities on the planet, with an ageing population and little land left to bury its dead. The response is to bring the cemetery into the city: a horizontal skyscraper that threads between existing towers, using promession to turn the deceased into biodegradable soil for a public park. 4 Result: the horizontal skyscraper above the Gangnam intersection
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Structure Horizontal Fluidity 2/2 Structure and systems
5 Longitudinal section A-A 1:50: park decks, promession facility and biomass channel carried on a central steel core
The scheme is a longitudinal span carried on a central steel core, with park decks, a promession facility and a biomass conversion channel inside the structure. The canopy borrows from the dragonfly wing: layers of ETFE skin, membrane, planting and a diagrid frame. Elevator pods run on independent rails along the core. Promession returns soil to the park, and biomass conversion produces electricity.
6 Canopy detail: dragonfly-wing-inspired ETFE skin, membrane, planting and diagrid frame
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7 Park level: burial plots and public pathways inside the structure
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Surface
Architecture Portfolio
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Urban Fold Master of Architecture Redfern Station renewal
Arrows coded into a surface Unit
MARC4003 Digital Architecture Studio
Type
Team of two
Role
Form finding, architectural documentation and render enhancement
Site
Emu and tracks as red arrows
Fold
Structural Modules (Repeatable)
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Redfern Station, Redfern-Waterloo
Location plan: Redfern Station
Urban Fold renews Redfern Station with a folded, tessellated roof, a public concourse and a trafficable roof plaza above the platforms. The design follows one chain: Symbol, Surface, Fold, Structural Modules, Arrangement and Space. First Nations red arrows for the emu and its tracks, honouring the Eora Nation, were coded into a surface, folded as a paper module and made repeatable.
Module varied into staircase, tower and bridge Folding the decahedron module in paper
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Arranging Structural Modules
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Arrangement and space Towers and staircases
Station concourse
Trafficable roof
Urban Fold 2/2
Space 05
The module is repeatable: modified into staircase, tower and bridge elements, built off site and assembled on site as the concourse bridge, stair columns and passenger lift shafts. The folded roof canopy was developed through scoring and folding experiments. Together they form the public concourse, the trafficable roof and a lookout above the platforms.
Roof plaza and platforms beneath the folded canopy
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Hargrave Street Third year professional practice Development application, Paddington
Unit
BDES3025 Architectural Professional Practice
Year
2011, Semester 2
Type
Individual project
Site
134 Hargrave Street, Paddington
Scope
Alterations and additions to a terrace house, for Woollahra Council
1 Terrace facade: cast-iron balcony detail
Location plan: 134 Hargrave Street, Paddington
For this unit, students prepared a development application for Woollahra Council. The brief meant reviewing the council's LEP and DCP, meeting strict heritage and environmental controls, and following the council's DA drawing standards. The house has moderate heritage significance but is heavily altered beyond its front facade. The proposal leaves the heritage facades untouched and removes structurally insignificant partition walls, opening the lower and ground levels to improve circulation and bring northern light into the interior. 2 Section A-A, Hargrave Street to rear lane (DC.03A)
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Documentation Hargrave Street 2/2 Development application drawings
The proposal was documented to the council's DA drawing standards: elevations and floor plans for the lower ground, ground, first and roof levels. The heritage facades are left untouched. Partition walls that are not structural are removed, opening the lower and ground levels to improve circulation and bring northern light into the interior.
3 South and north elevations (DC.04A)
4 Floor plan: lower ground
6 Floor plan: first floor
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5 Floor plan: ground
7 Floor plan: roof
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