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Joshua Kim
EDUCATION
University of Southern California Architecture Major Aug·2020 - Present
Adlai. E. Stevenson High School
Aug·2017 - May·2020
Sanghyeon High School
Mar·2017 - Jun·2017
WORK EXPERIENCE
AWARDS AND HONORS
SKILLS
C: [United States] [Republic of Korea]
+1 (224) 595-8621
+82 (010) 7445 4755
jkim1784@usc.edu
Los Angeles, California
GPA: 3.68/4.00
Lincolnshire, Illinois
GPA: 3.57/4.00
Yongin, Republic of Korea
University of Southern California School of Architecture • Laser Cutting Lab Assistant
Los Angeles, California • Sep·2022 - Present
Assist USC students with laser cutting at School of Architecture Laser Lab
USC Summer Exploration of Architecture Program for High School Students • Teaching Assistant
Los Angeles, California • Jun·2022 - Jul·2022
Help students develop their architectural projects and also help with Rhino and Adobe
BEAU Property Management Program Summer 2022 - Developing Latin America • Student Intern
Los Angeles, California • May·2022 - Jul·2022
Brainstorm and design projects that would benefit undeveloped Central American and South American communities; Mainly focused on housing, public spaces, and infrastructures
Grace Church Mugunghwa Korean School • Teaching Assistant
Wheeling, Illinois • Jun·2017 - Aug·2017 | Sep·2019 - Mar·2020
Help young Korean American students to learn more about Korea and Korean language skills
William Landsworth Memorial Prize • Scholarship 2021-2022 School Year
Gittleso Award • Scholarship 2021-2022 School Year
Digital Modeling • Rhinoceros·Revit·AutoCad·Sketchup
Adobe Creative Suite • Illustrator·InDesign·Photoshop·Premiere Pro
Microsoft Suite • Word·Exel·PowerPoint
LANGUAGES
Korean • Native speaker
English • Fluent
PROJECTS
Second year studio: Fall 2021
Second year studio: Spring 2022
Second year studio: Spring 2022 Third year studio: Fall 2022
The WAVE
As the goal of the project was to reform the ditch made by unconstructed freeway 710 site in Pasadena, the first aim was to connect both side of the city by putting connecting elements: curved landscape bridge piece over the ditch. On the one side of the ditch, tower was placed as the landmark of the city, and nine masses serving as public spaces were put on the other side under the landscape piece. Two strips of landscape part continues from the public space masses to the tower, connecting two sides as a wavy building. Tower is another form of the wave on the side which is going on the vertical direction, while landscape building is wavy on horizontal direction. To emphasize and give context meanings to the ditch, where and how this project began, various sizes of support columns were put as a highlight part of the site and the support of the landscape buiding going over the ditch.
Second year studio: Fall 2021 Instructor: Rick Gooding
GOODING STUDIO
JOSHUA KIM
Citizenry Crowns
To design a reading room on Los Angeles State Historic Park, the first step was to get the chracteristics of two joints: Noan Tervajarvi joint and Kawai-tsugite joint, then mpodify the joints based on those chracteristics and use the chracters into the reading room design. For my reading room, I used modified Kawai-tsugite joint, with the character of versatile, for the main structure, and modified Noan Tervajarvi, with the chracter of compatible, for the supplementary of the main form. I created a module with Kawai-tsugite joint, then made a box out of the module, making a pattern of the grid. By separating one fourth part of the whole box and moving the small box on the other corner of the main box, two different rooms are created. Small room is for group studying area and Big space is for individual studying area with bookstack. On the small exterior spaces made by those rooms, seating and stairs for users was placed purposfully for users to come to this structure and enjoy with the view of the park and nature. Each crown made with Noam Tervajarvi joints were place top of each individual and group study area to highlight the usage of each room as well as the whole strucure on the site.
Second year studio: Spring 2022
Instructor: Farnoosh Fallon Rafaie
井 Library
From the reading room I designed in the previous project, aim was to add more spaces to make it into a library on the same site of Los Angeles State Historic Park. Unlike other library buildings, each room in my library is separated by circulation as individual spaces. Top Left circulations provide staris in all four ways to connect the ground to the second floor and bottom right circulation as providing entrance and path to first floor spaces. The building sits as a square with rooms layed out diagonally symmetried. The project also intend for me to develope my own field finishes and I used the materials that was used in the park for the exterior. Main facade of the walls is from the reading room pattern formed by wood joints. There are total 15 spaces throughout the first and second floor, with 9 on the first, and 6 spaces in the second floor. Staff offices are located at the center on both floors for easy access to every spaces in the building. Other purpose of the library is to provide exhibitions space for artists. Therefore I have used 3 spaces on the first floor, and one long space on the second floor which also provides circulation to users, to provide opened exhibition spaces.
Second year studio: Spring 2022
Instructor: Farnoosh Fallon Rafaie
Intersection on Vermont
Group Co-op theme is food farms and storefronts run by residents. The whole ground floor space is designed for stores and residential facilities including conference rooms or building offices, while the second to the fourth floor is for residential units.
The basic building concept for the spatial layout was to use a grid system that was used for street layout. Thus units on the Vermont side are following the Spanish grid, while units on the other side are on the US grid angle. There is a central public plaza and two main restaurant spaces on each side of the plaza in the center of the site. To support the buildings in the plaza section, V-columns are placed following the grid. Sitting and tables are placed following the V-columns location in the plaza for customers. The sculpture has located at the Vermont entrance of the plaza which can attract people. The combination of different units on the Vermont side makes a complex push-and-pull facade. The facade on the backside is much simpler but still interesting with the louver system that I added on for the window.
These push-and-pull systems of units make small pocket spaces right by the hallway, and those spaces will be for food farms with artificial light. Also, a couple of open spaces of courts were placed on each floor, which separates buildings masses and serves residential community space. Green and wood walls will be placed into each court based on sun location which also can serve filtered air to the building.
Top units will have slanted roof which makes the north opening becomes place for south-angled solar panels.
Third year studio: Fall 2022
Instructor: Eric Haas
