Design

Washington University in St Louis 2011-2013 DNC Architects, Inc. 2008-2009 University of Maryland 2006-2008

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO John Song

Recycling Consumption | Fall 2013 CORE House - Affordable Housing | Fall 2012 Wetlands: an Organic Economy | Spring 2012 Living With A Horizon | Fall 2011 Graduate

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7700 Old Georgetown Rd. | Summer 2010 DNC Architects

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The Mediatheque | Spring 2008 Desert House | Spring 2007 Undergraduate

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Sketches Photography 1

Recycling Consumption | Fall 2013 CORE House - Affordable Housing | Fall 2012 Wetlands: an Organic Economy | Spring 2012 Living With A Horizon | Fall 2011 Graduate

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7700 Old Georgetown Rd. | Summer 2010 DNC Architects

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The Mediatheque | Spring 2008 Desert House | Spring 2007 Undergraduate

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Sketches Photography 1

Recycling Consumption Degree Project | Fall 2013

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Crestwood Courts is currently an empty mall in the city of Crestwood, MO, a historic suburb of St. Louis County. As shopping centers have defined our consumer culture, there must be a new identity to the sustainability era that is upon us.

The objective is to reuse the mall’s 1 million square feet of wasted space by turning it into a Materials Reclamation Research Center for St Louis. The functional spaces of recycling are integrated with the city by integrating materials processing, public viewing areas, research labs, and landscape. When these disparate processes function as a mutual system, they become a community, and less about commodity.

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Site Strategy Models

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Cross Section Through Recycling Process

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Longitudinal Section Through Storage Corridor & Recycling Center

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stl PLACE east Affordable Housing Studio Pt. 1 | Fall 2012

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Credits: Prof. Don Koster, JEMA Architects, and the studio team Fall 2012

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North St. Louis is an area of the city ~2 miles from downtown that once embodied values of community and neighbors. Declining population, demolition, and disinvestment created an urban desert of abandoned buildings and empty parcels. This cheap land was bought

by McEagle Development, who is currently convincing the Supreme Court to approve $4 billion in TIF funding for the design of a new neighborhood in North St. Louis.

PROPOSAL Great homes begin with great neighborhoods. St. Louis Place takes advantage of numerous existing infrastructural assets with an opportunity to grow into a transit hub for the community in the near future.

This transit-oriented growth promotes both the local community and its connectivity to the city.

Our proposal embraces this potential by defining what makes a great neighborhood, starting with the street.

Street improvements are integrated with the concept of low-impact design. This sensitivity to the site is what ultimately gives value to the people living in the community.

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CORE House Affordable Housing Studio Pt. 2 | Fall 2012 The CORE House has three goals: multi generational living, flexibility, and fostering porch conversations. The porch opens up to its neighbors, and functions as an “outside room�.

Variations of the facades depend on the lot widths, corner lots, and siding material.

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intersecting volumes porch an essential part of home

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Heat Island Reduction -high albedo built-up roof -drains to rain gardens on site

Brick Cladding -characteristic of St. Louis Natural Ventilation -hopper windows along clerestory window Sheltered Porch -protects from rain -light-shelf for loft

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Street Elevation

With a modest budget, every square ft must have an intention. A simple box volume with a central service core frees the perimeter for spacious living spaces. A skylight monitor washes the side of the core with natural light, which illuminates the double-storey living space. Due to real budget constraints, the floor area is maximized for adaptability.

The simple rooms can be retrofitted to provide for Living-in-Place.

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Ground Floor Plan

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goals

1: Multi-generational living -flexible plan -poche space turned inward 2: Security -eyes on the street -porch as buffer 3: Sense of community -porch as meeting place -extension of interior

Process Porch Model

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Top: Massing + Light Studies Bottom: Interior Concepts

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Wetlands: an Organic Economy St. Bernard Parish Wetlands Studio | Spring 2012 Tucked in one of the most remote corners of the US is St. Bernard Parish, just east of New Orleans. The parish is the site for the Army Core of Engineer’s 140 linear miles of surge protection system that bears the full impact of hurricanes before it reaches New Orleans. 13-foot concrete walls surround the parish, having detrimental effects on the already fragile ecology and economy of the parish.

To empower the sparse population of St. Bernard to regain a sense of understanding of their place, this project reconnects them with the natural and artificial infrastructures that has shaped their lands by adding a third infrastructure: recreation.

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Existing Sector Gate -New Gate: +31 ft -Old Gate: +18 ft

Tidal Salt Vegetation

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This project reclaims Lake Borgne by burying the surge wall with dredge collected from the Mississippi River, and regenerating the coastline into a Tidal Salt Marsh ecology, which naturally combats storm surges.

Program: The project reconnects people to this foreign landscape via a proposed 15-mile bike trail that runs above and parallel to the wall. The primary focus location is at the Bayou Dupre floodgate. There, the bike trail transforms into a eco-tourist friendly park.

The floodgates also allow for maritime access for fishermen who depend on Lake Borgne for income. New boat docks allow the fishermen to establish markets at the base of the park. Two more locations for floodgates with similar programs are added to the bike route.

Left: Experiential concepts of the bike trail and eco-tourist park.

Right: Final Model shown at the intersection of water, wall, biking, park, and wetlands 27

Design: Instead of denying the landscape, the architecture conforms to the topography, requiring visitors to negotiate the sectional quality of the spaces. Spaces are carved, retained, concentrated, and diffused, unifying architectural and landscape elements into one experience.

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Living With A Horizon Graduate Housing Core Studio | Fall 2011

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Horizon Bar (9) Guest Units (6-8)

Public Park (2-5)

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The premise for my urban housing design is the Midwest’s uniquely flat terrain, which served as the region’s farming industry. Situated in downtown St. Louis, people forget that the city was built on such a landscape. My project reconnects its tenants with the Horizon.

By lifting the apartments above the skyline, residents can obtain an intimate relationship with the sky via panoramic views towards the flatness that surrounds the city. The terracing of my apartments reflects this horizontality.

In addition, a mid-way rooftop bar, hotels, and a multi-level urban park reconnects the residents to the broader community.

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7700 Old Georgetown Rd. Client: B.F. Saul | Building Renovation | DNC Architects | Summer 2010

In an effort to attract more GSA tenants, the client asked DNC to renovate an 8-storey office building on a limited budget and schedule. Our concept changes the character of the building by focusing the budget on key areas: Redefining the Northeast corner, redesigning the main lobby, and upgrading mechanical units.

I was responsible for the design of the new curtain wall that would replace the building’s brick corner, which would become the new entrance. The concept of the lobby welcomes users through a gallery type space. The clean and light-colored finish materials add to the openness of the lobby, welcoming people towards the elevators.

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Top: The budget is focused on the prominent corner of the building, while providing upgraded amenities like higher ceilings and low-E glazing.

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Right: A translucent backlit wall is one of the features of the lobby.

Project Architect: Jef Fuller, AIA; Project Designer: Tony Than

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The Mediateque Civic Promenade | Spring 2008 In the digital era, the function of the public library has progressed from being a repository of books into a forum for rapid communication of information, exchanges of ideas, and education - the mediateque. The image of a library may now include computer labs, classrooms, local art galleries, and even the bustling coffee shop, all serving as amenities to its book collection. How peoples’ experience change as they move through these spaces is the focus of this project.

This project proposes a modern library in the Chinatown of DC. A curtain wall of glass is the building’s main exterior feature, welcoming visitors from the busy street into the lobby atrium. A sequence of stairs in the atrium weave through a curved porous screen, changing the visitors’ experience between public and private. Sectionally, the curved element is extended into the stacks and reading rooms on the upper floors, naturally lighting the space while providing panoramic views of the city.

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Experiences change depending on the side of the screen wall.

Below: Vertical circulation is influenced by the spaces they serve.

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Climate Response 20 +10 Desert House | Spring 2007 This project combines lessons of sustainable design and contextual living. Sited in Tucson, AR, the climate creates an environment that demands the house to adapt to hot days and cool nights. A load bearing adobe & brick construction offers beneficial thermal properties.

Oriented south-southeast to capitalize on the southern solar gain, its southern face is mostly left opaque. On the contrary, glazing on the north face provides the living spaces within mild natural daylight.

Program EXTERIOR PATIO LIVING ROOM

ENTRANCE COURTYARD LANDING

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Design One 20-foot cube and one 10-foot cube are partially sunken into the ground, using the earth as a natural heatsink. Connecting the two volumes is an open-air court that sectionally mediates between the public/private zones of the house. The porosity of the space also provides cross and stack ventilation through the house.

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Select Sketches “From the eye to the mind, and mind to hand�

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Photography Capturing great spaces around the world

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