Joobyung Chae | Architecture Portfolio

Joobyung Chae

Selected Works 2015 to 2023

Joobyung Chae

Nationality: South Korean

Date of Birth: November 09, 1994

Current Location: New York, United States

Visa Status: F-1 OPT

Language: Korean(Mother Tongue) / English(Advanced) Mail: jc5884@columbia.edu

Link: https://issuu.com/joobyung/docs/portfolio_extended_joobyung_chae

Education

Columbia University, New York, United States

- Master of Science, Advanced Architectural Design Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea

- Bachelor of Architecture

Work Experience

Engineer Company, Missile Command(Militray Service), South Korea

- Served as Engineering Platoon Leader and Military Training Evaluator

- Managing Facility and Construction Site of Military Bases

- Paticipating Military Training through Combat Engineer Support DA Group Urban Design & Architecture, Seoul, South Korea

- Full-Time Internship, Participating in Suwon Convention Center Project

- Making Physical Model of The Convention Center, 3D Modeling, and AutoCAD Drawings Heerim Architects & Planners, Seoul, South Korea

- Full-Time Internship, Participating in Sejong Hillstate Apartment Project

- Making Physical Model of The Apartment Complex and Plan Diagrams for Presentation

Reference

Jing Liu

- Studio Professor in 2022 Fall Semester

- +1 (718) 624-6666 / Liu@so-il.org

Ilze Wolff

- Studio Professor in 2023 Spring Semester

- +27 (021) 422-3803 / Info@wolffarchitects.co.za

Rhino AutoCAD

Adobe Ps/Ai/In Enscape V-ray Revit Grasshopper

05 ~ 2023. 05

03 ~ 2018. 02

Awards

Beyond Isolation: Senior Housing

- Participation, Individual William Kinnie Fellows Traveling Prize

- Award, as A Member of Team(Two Members) Korea Railroad Architecture Award

- Runner Up, as A Member of Team(Two Members) 12th Crystal Scale Prize 2017

- Runner Up, as A Member of Team(Three Members) Gyeonggi Architectural Festival

- Honorable Mention, Individual

Activities

Artphil Collaborative Project

- A Leader of Artwork Installation Project(Seven Members)

- Explaining Our Concept about ‘Continuity‘ with People’s Inherent Desire for Eternal Life ARME

- Architecture Academic Club in Chung-Ang University

- Investigating Architects and Taking Architectural Travels, and Sharing Architectural Discourses UAUS(Union of Architecture University Students)

- A member of Architectural Installation Project(Ten Members)

- Interpreting The Image of Seoul through People’s General Experience about Subway FOXHOLE

- A Participant in Group Work(Four Members)

- Making A Bar's Entrance Facade with Parametric Patternized Papers

7. RAINBOW PLATFORM Competitional Work

1. UPPER-LAYERED CITY Graduate Work Competitional Work

6. CLOTHILL Undergraduate Work

4. LIVING WITH THE DEAD Graduate Work

5. CARVING MEMORY

3. VARICLE Graduate Work Extracurricular Work 8 ~ 16

2. THE RAMP Competitional Work

1. UPPER-LAYERD CITY

Self-Constructed Houses on Existing Apartments

Year: 2022

Location: Shanghai, China

Type: Project Housing

Category: Graduate Project(AAD Advanced Design Studio)

Role: Group Work with Harlan Luo

Instructor: Elias and Yousef Anastas(AAU Anastas)

The project tries to reveal the analogical relations between forms, techniques, territories and materials across time and space. These are notes observing our surrounding architectural world and its relations with its milieu. The notes trace architectural practices to enlighten disregarded lectures of architectural history. My partner and I considered how to apply our non-architectural indigenous customs, so to say know-how, to today's architecture.

Minority’s Housing Identity and Exchanging Labor

Minority’s Identity

품앗이(Pronounced Poom-At-E)

Assimilation of Minorities’ Unique House due to The Han Ethnic Exchange of Labor to Help Harvesting Crop

Migrant Worker’s House

Constructed by Indigenous Residences Themselves

품앗이(Pronounced Poom-At-E) is the exchange of labour in the past agricultural society in Korea. In China, the culture of minorities, have been assimilated to the Han ethnic and architecture despite their indigenous culture. Combining these two ideas, we elicited a self-constructed, indigenous housing typology and applied to Shanghai, one of the biggest cities of China.

Migrant Worker’s Reality; Living Edge of Shanghai

Even on edge of the city, they live in poor condition.

Migrant workers mainly live outside of the city.

Central Distrct

Government cooperates with architects throughout the entire construction process.

Before constructing houses, migrant workers discuss with architects about location, material, structure, etc.

Migrant workers receive construction education. After understanding simple structure and building materials, they start to build. Complex education is not required because structures for their housing are only 1 or 2 level buildings built on existing apartment columns.

After training, future residents are put onto the construction site. House is built depending on their situation, such as the number of people, or existing column structure.

3. Continuously constructing, residents have formed clusters to make their own communities.

2. Build up houses above structures. Others start to plan their housings near by.

1. Construct structures for migrant worker’s houses, lengthening existing columns.

Vertically expanded areas are used not only for houses. They can also be stairs or community spaces.

On rooftops, new residents help each other to settle in a community well, sharing works.

At the centre of migrant housings, there are community spaces considering the minorities’ identity.

People outside of apartments can also visit community spaces to interact with the residents.

Detail of Extended Area

Community between Existing and New Residents

Rooftop and overlapped space formed by vertically expanded migrant houses are used as community space between new and existing residents.

Rooftop

A Barrier-Less Housing to Congregate

Year: 2023

Location: New York, United States

Type: Senior Housing

Category: Competitional Project(Beyond Isolation: Senior Housing)

Role: Individual Work

Instructor: None

This project is related with a competition which aims to design senior housing to help elders break isolation. I believe there are two primary reasons why seniors experience isolation: the absence of programs they could enjoy, and the lack of appropriate places seniors could play in. So, I propose a senior housing in which there are places seniors gather and work together. Shared spaces could increase the possibility of interactions. With the interactions, seniors move beyond basic isolation.

If spaces are based on individual activities, it is less likely for inhabitants to face others, leading to islotaion.

Shared Spaces Causing Interaction

On a level, I set up a private place for each elder to ensure privacy. After, I made series of shared places where the number of shared people gradually increase.

The more shared spaces there are, the more likely people come across and interact with each other.

Ramp connects different levels so that elders from different levels could interact each other. In the end, all residents in the housing gather together.

There are fifty-six units in the housing, and all-residents shared space is at the second floor.

Keeping Volume of Existing Senior Housing in Harlem.

Putting Residence on The Left Side, Maintaining the number of Units. Roof

Ramp on The Right Side, Connecting All Floors.

Program

From bedroom to cafeteria, the number of shared people is gradually increased. The increase helps residents who are not accustomed to sharing with others get used to it.

3F ~ 6F

Two units share one livingroom and kitchen and form a housing mass. Six units share balcony. Seniors go to the ramp through hall way.

2F

The area of laundry area and cafeteira is large enough to gather all residents and leads to interact among them.

Entrance lobby is located at the front, dividing the ways to units and the ramp. Eight units are at the first floor.

Laundry

Combination of Vertical Movement Devices

Year: 2022

Location: New York, United States

Type: Street Intervention

Category: Graduate Project(AAD Advanced Studio V)

Role: Individual Work

Instructor: Jing Liu(SO-IL)

People used to say how others see ‘community’ is very different from the actual living experience within it. Trying to go deep into the diverse neighbourhood of Jackson Heights, i embedded myself in the community and on the streets to address real worries, matters of concern, and issues that people care for. I focused on the current status of the 82nd street station, which has no elevator, to reinterpret the meaning of the vertical movement devices in terms of accessibility.

Devices for Various People

Considering Jackson Height’s condition, it may not be the best choice to install just an elevator. Everyone has different body structures. Also, depending on your day to day circumstances, your physical condition may change. Considering all these aspects, I would like to put a series of diverse devices rather than just one elevator so that people can use the devices according to their current states.

Jackson Heights, where people from various cultures are living together, started being developed in early 20th century and is now facing facility aging. The 82nd Street station is experiencing the same problem. In the case of public elevators, it only meet the minimum standards. They are usually considered dirty and designed for the physically disable. The city government has tried to install an elevator to inaccessible stations.

Jackson Heights is...

About 15,393 people use the 82nd Station in every weekday.

25% of people who usually comes to Jackson Heights use subway. Outside from Jackson Heights

Types of Vertical Devices

Varous devices, an elevator, slides, stairs, ramps, and rock climbing, are put in Manuel Triangle, a block away from 82nd station. Also, the bushy garden continuously serves as a gathering plaza like before, harmonizing with devices, at the same time giving an exotic experience while using devices.

Current

of Manuel Triangle. It works

Logic of Placing Devices

Garden

It consists of different heights’ vegetations, giving a forest-like experience

Rock Climbing

It is monotlih-like, balancing with the elevator on the other side

Ramp

They are curve-shaped to be sturdy and connnect devices from above the ground

Spiral Stair

They are spiral to show as individual devices

Elevator

Its shaft is glass made. It is the tallest among other devices, giving elegant images and preventing crime

Slide

They are curved shape to surround the elevator

View around The Rock Cliimbing

View from The Ramp

View around The Stair

View around The Elevator

Cemetery in A City, Surrounded by Museum

Year: 2017

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Type: Mixed-Use Building

Category: Undergraduate Project(Undergraduate Thesis Work)

Role: Individual Work

Instructor: Yoonkyung Choi(Professor of Chung-Ang Univerisity)

South Korea is a small country with only over 100,000km² in land area. Therefore, there are always debates over the use of the land, and cemetery has always been a category included in the debate. More than 1% of the country land is being used as cemeteries, spread throughout the mountains, destroying not only green area but also the natural landscape. Keeping this problem in mind, I tried to redefine the modern cemetery space.

Locating

Cemetery into City

Cemetery as Undesirable Facility

When deciding cemetery spots, Koreans have been affected by Feng Shui, which explains an ideal spot of designating a funeral area. It still affect Korean people today. As a result, many cemeteries are related with mountains and rivers. Beacuse of these preconditions, they are usually far from cities, and It takes at least an hour away to get there. The distance is a burden for modern people to visit often. However, people do not want to take cemeteries closer. It is considered an undesirable facility. Considering all situations, I combined a cemetery with a museum, one of the most favorable programs by Koreans.

Disguise by Combining with Museum

I combined a cemetery with a museum, one of the programs Koreans generally accept without hesitance and put together inside Seoul. I set up a relationship with a museum to put a cemetery in the city. The cemetery is

Since view is the most direct stimulus to people, Visual

from outside is the most effective way to minimize

disguised by the museum.

block

repulsion.

1 Hour by Vehicle

Seoul

Yangju

Incheon Cemetery River

Moving into the City

Suwon

2 Hour by Vehicle

Burial

As a trend of dispositioning dead bodies has changed, cemeteries are still located in mountains around cities.

Cremation

Protest against a new cemetery

Burdensome Distance for Citizens

Because of people’s busy lives, the distance between cemeteries and cites is too long to visit often.

Despite of the inconvenience, people oppose to construct new cemeteries close to cities.

Surround the cemetey with the museum Distinguish the cemetery from the museum in the form of a high tower.

Users of the two programs meet at the undergound memorial park.

The museum’s galleries are arranged sequentially along the ramp. The protruded gallery masses mingle with surroundings with the cemetery tower.

Space between the museum and the cemetery and separate the movement.

Circulations of the museum and the cemetery are separated not to be overlapped. Six galleries surround the cemetery building along a spiral-shaped main pathway. Between galleries, while moving to the next galleries, the visitors can see each other

Exchange The View

Through the semi-transparent façade of the cemetery, people cannot see each other completely. However, visitors with completely different purposes and emotions are naturally encouraged to evoke internal thoughts by perceiving each other, designed to provide an opportunity to look back on themselves.

Museum

Memorial Park

View from Cemetery

View from Museum

5. CARVING MEMORY

Architectural Space as Recording Memory

Year: 2023

Location: New York, United States

Type: Street Intervention

Category: Graduate Project(AAD Advanced Studio VI)

Role: Individual Work

Instructor: Ilze Wolff(Wolff Architects)

Can architecture work as an object that records experience and emotion? If architecture succeeds in recording, it will be intertwined with local identity. Harlem is the birthplace of diverse Black cultures, however, layers of cultures have been erased as time goes by. They are not highlighted. So, I tried to combine the Wax museum’s history with its building. This will create another layer of identity for new generation and recollection for those who experienced the Wax Museum in the past.

316 W 115th Street in Harlem is currently a private residential apartment, but in the past, it was used as the African American Wax Museum. In 1981, Ravin Chanticleer purchased the building and made wax figures of Black Heroes to teach Harlem’s citizens about Black identity. Over time, many forums and tours held in the building disappeared, leaving the building as just another building in the city.

In honor of the wax museum, I presented its history and memories on a porch to commemorate what took place there. Rather than creating an exhibition or museum simply providing the history of the wax museum, I created an intervention that involves the use of wax and provides a place where the public can enjoy it while conveying the story of the Wax Museum.

1980’s Wax Museum Buillding

Current Wax Museum Buillding

Raven Chanticleer, the founder of African American Wax Museum, died in 2002.

The wax museum was closed right after the death of Raven Chanticleer.

Families sold the wax museum building to other person. African American Wax Museum

The Place Memories Happend Recollecting Memories Usage by People

Piled Memories

Involve The Use of Wax.

Form a place placing waxes.

Between waxes, structures exist to hold them. Combing the structures and waxes, they work as an intervention.

Wax is used as furnitures used by people.

People can participate in the intervention.

Intervention Using The Material, “Wax”

Wax cases containing wax panels are hung through the frames, vertically and horizontally.

Street Intervention; Frame and Wax Case

The frames consist of up to three levels, one of which is about 25 inches tall, suitable for a person to sit on. They are formed around the edges of the porch and sidewalk, and also arranged so as not to interfere with people gathering or moving. In addition, some parts of the frames are divided into the half, so a quarter-sized, smaller frames are arranged. With the combination of these large and small frames, the form of intervention is more diverse. About the wax cases, one side is flat and the other side has edges to hold wax panels.

U-Shaped

L-shaped Wing

Structures

The cases are divided into fixed or adjustable ones.The Fixed ones are horizontally hung on the first level of the grids. The public can use as benches or tables. adjustable ones are used differently depending on situations.

On event days, adjustable wax cases are hung vertically. Wax panels are placed inside the cases. The wax panels can be taken by the public or used as a board to attach the archives of the Wax Museum.

The structures provide an interactive experience for the public, offering opportunities to engage with wax cases and panels in a variety of ways. With panels featuring edges and wings, the placement of cases onto the frame is made convenient and quick, while various uses of the cases extends beyond mere storage of wax, serving as functional elements such as chairs or tables. Various Uses

6. CLOTHILL

Culture Complex with Clothing Related Programs

Year: 2017

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Type: Culture Complex

Category: Competitional Project(12th Crystal Scale Prize)

Role: Group Work with Daesun Yang and Kiyeon Kim

Instructor: Seyoung Lee(Professor of Chung-Ang Univerisity)

Apgujeong Rodeo, the centre of fashion consumption in 1990's, has been going through recession. These days, there are already few new places that can replace the role of Apgujeong Rodeo. The government is trying to find a way to revitalize the business district. Rather than pursuing a shopping district, I proposed a fashion cultural complex, combining various types of fashion programs to get a differentiated competitive aspect from other regions.

Diminishing competitiveness as ashopping district

Compared to the 90's, people's taste has become more diverse and ever-changing. Other alternatives are keeping up with trend, more appealing to people.

Programs

Arranging programs according to activeness

To differentiate from other shopping areas, I put various programs, from shops people can approach easily, to craft rooms which people who are more interested in clothes. Programs start from the entrance facing the main street and are distributed

linearly in the order of program's hierarchy. Because of the shape of the block, the line is folded once. Programs captivating people who are not only interested in clothes, but also those who just want to enjoy cultural life.

Apgujeong Rodeo

The Path starts from the ground floor, streched through the entire form of building. People can experience all the programs gradually with the flow. A translucent mesh facade covers the entire building except the main path. Its transparency creates a

There is a subway platform that has never been used officially because of changed plans when being constructed in Seoul. Currently, it is used as a passage to the garage by subway trains. The government has tried to find a way to transform the platform. I proposed to change this abandoned platform into cultural space open to citizens. Taking advantage of the platform that can allow trains to come and go, programs are changed according to the time zone to match possible users.

Regenerated Subway Platform

Program Arrangement According to Survey

System of Rainbow Platform

A survey was conducted to residents around the platform and nearby subway passengers. Based on the result, programs were selected by classifying days and times, considering expected users. Basic structures would be installed to increase people's accessibility and convenience. By installing elevators connecting between the different platforms with the outside, people can access the Rainbow Platform through both ground floor and station. The platform also receives sunlight through light condensers.

Facility System

Facilities such as gas and water are installed on the platform. They are connected according to the program. For programs such as the theater and the library, seats are at the platform, screen and stage at the train.

8. MAZE; Hazed Gaze

Dark Maze Describing A Framentary Image of Seoul

Year: 2015

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Type: Pavilion

Category: Extracurricular Project

Role: Member of UAUS Group

Instructore: None

Seoul as A Fragment

The Subway is an essential part of Seoul. While the trains move, the places between stations remain in darkness. We aimed to show the paradox between Seoul's successive places and people's fragmentary cognitions.

Maze with A Courtyard

The pavilion is consisted of three fabric-covered cubes. Visitors pass through fabric layers and encounter the courtyard in the middle. The change of brightness expresses the fragmentary image of Seoul.

Courtyard

9. IRREGULAR

SPACE

Irregular Space by Using Random Materials

Year: 2021

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Type: Installation Artwork

Category: Extracurricular Project

Role: individual work

Instructor: Aeran Jung

There are too much garbages in the world. Some of them are not reused even after the recycling process. Architecture has a similar problem; Tons of construction wastes are being generated. Using remaining materials, I explored irregular spaces that humans cannot easily predict. Through unintended combinations with unexpected materials, possibilities for new spatial forms and functions are explored.

Random Material

I used common architectural materials that could be found in the studio. They all have different shape and scale. Depending on the way to combine, there is an infinite number of possibilities.

Various Space

I cut forms in various ways and remove materials inside to see how space was formed. There are various spaces inside the forms and we can envision many activities according to the forms.

An Unexpected Overlapped Space

Year: 2021

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Type: Installation Artwork

Category: Extracurricular Project

Role: Individual Work

Instructor: Sanghoon Gang

Behavior

Today's people tend to make casual relationships, avoiding the relationship development process. Gray Area is the neutral area between people, helping to perceive each other and make sincere relationships.

Natural, Neutral Space

Gray Area is formed through natural flow. Instead of artificially designating, it has to be formed naturally according to people's circulation. It can be an alternative for making public spaces in cities.

11. RESPONSIVE HOUSE

The Facade Reacting to Movements

Year: 2021

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Type: Installation Artwork

Category: Extracurricular Project

Role: Individual Work

Instructor: Aeran Jung

Reaction to Movement

Architecture is being advanced increasingly fast in 21st century, but the progress only happens material and construction method in architecture area. Is it possible for building forms to be changed according to the envrionment? If that happens, not only building's efficiency will increase, but it also provide people enjoyment of using space.

Responsive house reacts to movements. The panels rotate some degrees according to people's speed, and distance between people and the house.

Rotating Degree according to Movement

Panel's Rotation according to People's Movement

Facade interacts with surroundings, weakening the boundary between outside and inside.

Panel's Rotation according to The Distance

12. FAMILIAR MAKES PERFECT

A Process of Perceiving Space

Year: 2021

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Type: Installation Artwork

Category: Extracurricular Project

Role: Individual Work

Instructor: Sanghoon Kang

Familiarized Process

Lots of offices start remote working. People felt awkward about working at different places in the beginning, however, were accustomed to the situation as time goes. With accumulation of time and action, people got familiar with space.I envisioned the essence of space and developed a deeper understanding of our spatial experiences and how a space are unfolded over time. So, I made the condition and process for perfect place, the accumulation of time, action, and familiarity, with model.

13. THE PLACE; Meaningful Area

Comparing The Meaning of Place with Reading Process

Year: 2021

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Type: Installation Artwork

Category: Extracurricular Project

Role: Individual Work

Instructor: Sanghoon Kang

Pre-Condition of A Place

Life has lots of moments, like books have many pages. We can't remember everything. Among the memories, meaningful memories can only make sense of place. The experiences act as the important medium to mermorize places. I utilized books to show how my life looks like by drawing on them, making notes, and putting things between the pages. The marked-up books became like my treasure maps, turning normal books into the special ones.

Explanation The Concept of ‘Continuity‘

Year: 2021

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Type: Pavilion

Category: Extracurricular Project

Role: Group with Six Members

Instructor: Aeran Jung, Sanghoon Kang

Paradox of Eternity

'Eternity' was the main point from the keyword 'Continuity.' Human being has always desired immortal life. However, we had a doubt about immortal life.

'Would immortality always be regarded as absolute goodness?'

It would be a tragedy living an eternal life, remaining without the choice of death. By founding the imaginary organization RECO, we set the situation that they were trying clinical trials at the laboratory. The object was demonstrating the suspicions and the wariness of the immortal life by assuming the situation.

Scenario

In 2021, RECO invented the technology to convert the human consciousness to data into the virtual world, making eternal life possible. They invited volunteers to the laboratory to introduce and proceed a clinical trial. During the introduction, the laboratory suddenly freezed. Monitors showed weird images and paper roll started to unravel, showing morse code. These were messages from researchers who already had been digitized. They realized immortality was not as blissful as expected and attempted to send a warning message to stop this experiment. However, RECO interrupted the researchers because their new technology could bring a remarkable honor and profit. Due to the disturbance, the digitized researchers failed to send the message and took the last resort, putting morse code on the paper.

Blue Light Dark Room

Paper Roll Fixed on Motor

Blue Light

15. Internship Work

16. Internship Work

Heerim Architects & Planners DA Group Urban Design & Architecture

Duration: July to August, 2015

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Type: Apartment Complex Design

Role: Making Diagrams, Plans and Models

Duration: February to March, 2017

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Type: Convention Center Design

Role: Making Diagrams, Plans and Models