Dayoon Oh Portfolio(2024)

Summer 2024 | Columbia University GSAPP | Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design Pratt Institute | Bachelor of Architecture

Dayoon Oh

Easy and To-go

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Nesting Spaces

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Character Dressup

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X: Y: Z: Treehouse

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Neighboring

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Past, Present and Unfinished Past

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Mosquito Paradox

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#Museum Art Museum

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Tidal of Time and Wisdom

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Easy and To-go Personal Work (Individual) Year Type Size Material

2023 Artwork 7.8”x11”x2.5” food ingredients, gesso, plastic container

Description

Architecture starts from the very small things.

Small things can get personal, and personal things come together to become architecture. I enjoy designing small things. I believe that the experience that small details give each person is the most precious and important value of architecture. Therefore, the building must be convenient for users. Architecture that is simple and friendly, like a meal kit that kindly explains the process even to people who can’t cook, is the architecture I pursue.

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C A The best way to optimize the capabilities of personalized architecture is to use modular systems. Modularization can personalize architecture without limiting creativity in that it provides an optimal frame that minimizes practical problems such as transportation and production and guarantees freedom within it.

7.8”x11”x2.5” / food ingredients, gesso, plastic container 3 | Dayoon Oh | Columbia University GSAPP | Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design

Nesting Spaces Academic Work (Individual) Year Type Program Critics Location

2020 Advanced Design Studio Project Office Pod Duks Koschitz, Robert Brackett Brooklyn, New York

Description

Nesting Spaces is a project about studying various kinds of fabrication methods using physical models and studying possibilities of connection types that can be made by using: surface, volume, and extrusion. Throughout several aggregation studies and hybridizing, we learned useful mechanical details especially in a real-scale pre-fabricated construction.

Assembly The assembly of the parts are strictly related to the fabrication of the pod in a real scale. The mehod chosen to build a physical model was to finish wach parts(total 12) as a pre-fabricated pieces, more like a capsule or an unit, and then connect those parts together to get the construction done. Method of folding, casting, and 3d printing was used to represent volumes and surfaces in different scales.

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13.7”x13”x8.6” / bristol, 3d print, plexiglass, casted plaster

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Specifications

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The transition of the flat into curve of the glass follows along the solid printed part creating diagonal seams also emphasizing the method of making and the design following the logic of ruled surfaces. The glass connection is inspired from Volvo p1800 series with frameless glass hatch, and Eric Owen Moss as an architecture reference.

Basically the glass never touches the inner materials, but the glass holders are helping the glass to stay in the right position, leaving the thin gap between the glass and the pod.

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Character Dressup Academic Work (Individual) Year Type Program Critics Location

2019 Design Studio Project Theatre Jonathan Scelsa 319 Lafayette St, New York(NOHO)

Description

How can a character be charged with performing certain architectural roles, while also retaining his/her personal characteristics? For a start, consider that which is enclosed is inside of the body, while that which is open is outside.

There can be different characters or family members for each role, or the character’s different orientation may depend on its roles.

CHARACTER AS A VOID

CHARACTER AS AN OBJECT

9.8”x9”x6” / 3d printed parts, foamcore, spray paint, print on paper

Making of Ayane LOVER

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Ayane's story This project is all about a character named Ayane, and how the character acts as solid and void throughout the building scale allows to form different scales of spaces. The character’s family is influenced by both the original character(X-axis) and environment(Z-axis). The character also changes it’s clothes depending on the environment.

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BOTTOM Ayane's Cloak 15”x5”x11” / museum board, foamcore, spray paint 8 | Dayoon Oh | Columbia University GSAPP | Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design

Object in Space

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Activity Space

Office

Theatre C

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Lounge Activity Space

Theatre B Lounge

Lounge

Office Activity Space

Theatre A 7”x7”x7.5” / wooden dowel rods, basswood board, plexi glass

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Theatre Lobby

The vertical theatre tower was designed to have 4 theatres with a capacity of 300 seats. In between main program spaces, there are several semi-public spaces which are marked up yellow in the drawings. While main program spaces are made by the characteristics of Ayane as an object, the activity spaces are formed when Ayane acts as a void.

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The tower appears like a box with some holes from the street level, but as soon as you enter the building by being attracted by the hints given, you can experience the whole different layer of spaces made by the character.

7.5”x3.7”x15” / museum board, foamcore, 3d print, spray paint, print on paper 10 | Dayoon Oh | Columbia University GSAPP | Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design

X: Y: Z: Treehouse Personal Work (Individual) Year Type Size Material

2023 Sculpture 15.7”x15.7”x35.4” 3d printed parts, wooden dowel rods, museum board, spray paint

Bespoke Module The future architecture I imagine is bespoke architecture.

Automated and autonomous modular-type architecture will maximize production and transportation efficiency, while new structural mechanisms will eliminate restrictions on spatial location and size, and the combination of new materials and media will break down the boundaries of architectural styles.

This project shows my perspective on interpreting architecture that goes beyond the framework of conventional architecture.

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Neighboring Academic Work (Group of two) Year Type Program Critics Location Participants Contribution

2022 Thesis Project Daycare center, Elderly care center Lawrence Blough, Jason Vigneri-Beane Banpo, Seoul, Republic of Korea Dayoon Oh, Hynggu Han Rendering, Concept model, Section, Axon diagram, Site plan

Description

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our sense of social interaction and our experience of public space and urban life. Neighboring aims to address the challenges of social distancing and isolation in indoor spaces by bringing people together at different scales, from the building to the street and the neighborhood.

Street Form

1 Amsterdam Orphanage 2 Nakagin Capsule Tower 3 Little Island 4 Prison 5 Laboratory 6 Office 7 Satellite 8 Harbor 9 Infrastructure 10 NYC

Street Form Overlay

Visual + Auditory Connection

27.5”x6”x10” / casted concrete / 2023

This project aims to change a city form into a street form alongside bringing streets inside the building and making it work as a sequence/threshold. With the collapsed boundary of the buildings, public programs such as gallery, bazaar, and marketspaces spread around the first two floors of the building while the childcare and elderly care are located in the symbiotic imprints.

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Sharing Level

Neighboring in Chunks

kid's window tunnel window tunnel playground

physical zone

education zone

playzone

rooftop garden

social zone craft zone

lobby

bazaar

shelves

seating craft table

park

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restaurant

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Two main programs: daycare and elderly care can be divided into semi-programs. For example, under daycare, the semi-programs are playground, education, and activity and under elderly care, the semi-programs are social zone, craft zoneshows the human scale neighboring between the elderly craft zone and the children’s playzone.

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Although Seoul has been relatively successful at managing the pandemic, its population has suffered, including the challenges of social distancing and isolation in indoor spaces.

The project is located in a district called Banpo in Seoul. The site is a 1970s high rise apartment block. In the neighborhood, 30% of the population is children under the age of 12 and at least one elderly person is living with their family.

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Banpo Middle School

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Dulwich School

Gyesung Elementry School

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Each chunk groups are a stage in the aggregation similar with the logic behind the fractals: first define the logic and repeat the logic that occured one step before.

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Past, Present and Unfinished Past Personal Work (2023 Seoul Urban Architecture Viennale: Seoul 100years Masterplan Idea Competition) Year Type Program Location Participants Contribution

2022 Group project, Competition Bridge Seoul, South Korea Sunggi Park(team leader), Dayoon Oh, Donghyun Kim Concept development, 3D modeling, Rendering, Site plan

Description

Our idea started from the question of the Han River that may not exist in the future, and to revisit the bridge (infrastructure) that connects the Han River. In addition to the existing functions, we suggest Nodeul Island to be reborn as an island with new functions required for the future (drone taxi stop + urban farm + energy generation + media facade + global guest house). Thereby we propose a new typology of construction that has never been seen before.

Flood Stage The flood stage scenario shows the major flood state with the highest recorded flood level(11.76m) in the past(1925/07/18) at the Han-river Bridge. While we were suffering in heavy rain, in Europe, people were facing an unprecedented drought. People could even witness the appearance of a relic that had been submerged under water since the 15th century. Seoul’s appearance in 100 years may be similar to current Europe or anywhere in the globe and therefore, we suggest an unprecedented typology of infrastructure for an unfinished past.

Han River Park

Nodeul Island Station

1 Potential Site 2 Node, Public Access Point 3 Connecting Node for Efficient Network

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This project started from the observation of ourselves spending the summer season, enduring the inconvenience of sleeping with a blanket all over your head or installing a mosquito net even in the scorching heat in order to avoid mosquitoes. Throughout the exhibition, we get a desired comfort in exchange by bearing discomfort, and the whole experience shows and proves the process of the deal made by ourselves.

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7’-10”x6’-6”x8’-10” / projection on cotton filled cloth, mosquito net

Mosquito Paradox Personal Work (Artphil Collaborative Project, Grand Prize, The Excellence Prize for Visualization) Year Type Size Material Location Participants Contribution

2023 Group project, Installation Indoor: 7’-10”x6’-6”x8’-10” / Outdoor: 2’-0”x2’-0”x6’-0” Indoor: projection on cotton filled cloth, mosquito net Outdoor: steel frame, egg carton, insulation foam, monitor, mirror, printing paper, gesso, paint Apgujeong, Seoul, South Korea Dayoon Oh(team leader), Olivia Jung, Eunjong Lee, Hayoung Lee, Soyoung Choi, Sooha Han Concept development, Indoor and outdoor installation, AR implementation

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1. Mosquito Projection

2. Physical Interaction

3. AR Interaction

The first thing we see is a projected video of mosquitoes. It's a very bizarre visual experience that makes you want to avoid it.

The objects that we felt visually uncomfortable were piles of comfortable pillows. Here, we must decide whether to rest on a physically comfortable pillow despite the inconvenience of being with mosquitoes, or to give up comfort by avoiding mosquitoes.

The structures we see when we go outdoors give us a receipt. It is a receipt showing the price paid through a transaction for what was given up for freedom from mosquitoes. Through the AR experience, we learn that moments of choice always exist around us, even though we do not feel them.

#MUSEUM ART MUSEUM Professional Work (International Design Competiton for Incheon Museumpark, 5th Prize) Year Type Location Licensed Architect Contribution

2022 Competition Incheon, South Korea Sunggi Park 3D modeling(truss structure and wave facade), Exterior and interior renderings 26000

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Tidal of Time and Wisdom Professional Work (International Design Competiton for Incheon Geomdan Cultural Complex, Honorable Mention) Year Type Location Licensed Architect Contribution

2023 Competition Incheon, South Korea Sunggi Park 3D modeling(exo-skeleton structure and library interior), Exterior and interior renderings

DISCONTINUITY DISCONTINUITY

Building only for HUMAN (Horizontal BuildingBuilding onlySeparation) for only HUMAN for HUMAN (HORIZONTAL (HORIZONTAL SEPERATION) SEPERATION)

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Building for both HUMAN and NATURE BuildingBuilding for both for HUMAN both HUMAN and NATURE and NATURE (Vertical Separation) (VERTICAL (VERTICAL SEPERATION) SEPERATION)

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