AMBIVALENT OBJECT Gigantic Data Center in Iceland ARCH 701/Jason Payne
VESSEL OF WORLDS Machine_Synthetic Natures ARCH 602/Simon Kim
NEW LIVING OBJECT
Atomized Plan Micro Housing in NYC ARCH 601/Kutan Ayata
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COMPETITIONS ICARUS
What if human had wings? Alternate Realities 2020 Competition
[WAS]TE Death of Architecture Multi Purpose Stadium in Lagos Competition
THE 4POINTS OF A NEW HOME Towards a New Ageless The Last House On Mulholland Competition
IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA A Monument To The Delaware River Schenk-Woodman Competition
North Exterior
PROFESSIONAL WORKS
Snøhetta
San Francisco, California 2022 - PRESENT
Snøhetta is a transdisciplinary, dialogue-driven practice including architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, art, product design, graphic and digital design, often integrating a combination of interests across projects.
Barbara and Gerson Bakar Reasearch and Academic Building
San Francisco, California 2022-PRESENT
Education & Research, Workspace & Production Facility
University of California, San Francisco at Parnassus Heights
ROLE
Schematic Design, Desgin Development, Construction Documents
Building Design Concept Study, 3D Model management, Massing study
Podium Exterior Design - Design Lead, Computational Design, Revit Documentation, Coordination, Facade Rationalization/Optimization for the cost reduction
At the heart of the project is the notion of “park to peak” which has become a driver for the design, experience, and function of the new space. Acting as a bridge between the neighborhood and nature, the campus enhancements will include improved pedestrian access through the campus, reduced vehicular traffic along Parnassus Avenue, in addition to an opening in the street wall to Mount Sutro. The PRAB building will become part of a larger public trail network connecting Golden Gate Park with over 5 miles of hiking trails within the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve, one of the city’s wildest and most beautiful green spaces.
Inspired by the unique maritime climate of San Francisco, the upper register of the building reflects the atmospheric and shifting forms of the horizon. Taking influence from the surrounding forests of Mount Sutro, the earthy lower register of the building opens up PRAB to the public realm through a cascading series of vegetated slopes, stairs, and public elevators that provide an accessible means to bringing people into the building and through the landscape.
FOREST RIBBON
PARK TO PEAK
GOLDEN GATE PARK
MOUNT SUTRO
LOWER REGISTER
These connective threads wrap around the lower register of the building, activating the public realm and pedestrian experience through a cascading series of vegetated hills, stairs, and public elevators that provide an accessible means to bring people up, helping to negotiate almost 60’ of grade change from Parnassus to the promenade and on to Sunset Trail.
Interior
Facade
Exterior Plan - Level 2
Exterior Elevation - Lower Register - North
CSB Bridge
North Exterior
FRIT INSPIRED BY NATURE
Inspired by the unique atmospheric conditions of San Francisco & the Inner Sunset District. Each floor has it’s own unique horizon, echoing the unique research and experiences of each floor. Cloud like forms stretch across the façade blending the horizontality of the floors while reflecting a variety of programmatic conditions inside. The soft forms and gradients creates a sense of movement, visual interest, and a recognizable identity for BRAB within the San Francisco skyline.
STIPPLING FRIT
Stippling is a technique widely used in scientific illustration for fields such as entomology, botany, and microbiology. It helps to clearly, and schematically if necessary, represent the morphology and intricate details of animals and plants. Stippling creates a balance between negative and positive space by using dots to convey the illusion of light and shadow. Digital stippling is inspired by computational image sampling techniques frequently employed in medical research. This combination of traditional illustration techniques with contemporary digital algorithms produces unique patterns that convey an illusory quality while allowing precise control as needed.
A minimum of 40% average frit coverage is required on the vision glass to meet energy performance standards for the west and south facades. The west-facing office offers a stunning view, so the frit coverage is reduced at eye level, allowing researchers to enjoy the view while still maintaining over 40% coverage at higher levels.
West Office View
Instead of adding a separate bird-safe treatment, custom Python code modifies the dot pattern to meet bird-safe compliance requirements. When the dots are too small to meet bird-safe compliance, all dots within a 2” by 2” grid are enlarged to a 1/4” diameter. If the dots are too large, exterior dots within the 2” by 2” grid are removed, while interior dots are enlarged to a 1/4” diameter.
Glass Sample
M.Arch Studio
North Exterior
PROFESSIONAL WORKS
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
New York, New York 2018 -2022
Founded in 1981, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) is a design studio whose practice spans the fields of architecture, urban design, installation art, multi-media performance, digital media, and print. With a focus on cultural and civic projects, DS+R’s work addresses the changing role of institutions and the future of cities.
METROPOLITAN WAREHOUSE
Boston, Massachusetts 2018-2022
Historic Building Renovation Project
MIT School of Architecture
ROLE
Schematic Design, Desgin Development, Design Research, Program Analysis and Plan Design, Concept Diagrams, Interior Detailed Design 3D Modeling and Rendering, Revit Modeling and Documentation- Plans/Elevations/Interior Elevation & Section
OLD AND NEW
The existing MET building is an important part of the history and image of Cambridge. However, many of its inherent qualities are difficult to adapt to use as an academic building. The new use will require both supplementing the existing structure as well as removing elements to make room for larger and more flexible spaces than its tight column grid and restrictive ceiling heights allow. Further, as a structure that was never built for human habitation, ubtractions are required to bring light into the heart of the building.
This creates a powerful opportunity for a dialogue between old and new that is perhaps the greatest potential for the project. The intent of the design approach is to not cover over these subtractions, cuts, removals, and voids, but to celebrate and enfold them into a unique language and material experience for the project. The rough and ready durability of the met can be paired with more contemporary open and flexible spaces to create a hybrid building with many atmospheres to support the diverse activities of the SA+P and Project Manus.
Existing North Facade
Proposed North Facade
BUILDING ANATOMY
The MET building presents another series of challenges to the basic layout and origination of the many departments and centers within the program- its incredible length. Over 500’ long, the basic shape of the MET building creates a dilemma, - where is the heart of such a long building?
Like the organs of a snake, the met should have multiple centers with different atmospheres, activities and process rather that a single central gathering area. That said, we choose to create a “heart” as the beginning of a circulatory system, helping orient and send visitors, students and faculty on various journey through the anatomy of the building. While starting at a central orientation point, the connective circulation of the building acts as a kind of infinite branching corridor connecting the multiple organs of the building.
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T: 617.423.5711
STRUCTURAL
111 Devonshire Street Boston, MA 02109
T: 617.695.6700
MEP/IT/SECURITY
Altieri (Altieri Sebor Wieber)
31 Knight Street Norwalk, CT 06851
T: 203.866.5538
SUSTAINABILITY
Atelier Ten
45 East 20th Street 4th Floor New York, NY 10003
T: 212.25. 4500
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Reed Hilderbrand
130 Bishop Allen Drive Cambridge, MA 02139
T: 617.972.7927
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Nitsch Engineering
2 Center Plaza, Suite 430, Boston, MA 02108
T: 857.206.8760
GEOTECHNICAL
GEI
400 Unicorn Park Drive Woburn, MA 01801
T: 781.721.4000
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Tillotson Design Associates
40 Worth Street, Suite 703
New York, NY 10013
T: 212.675.7760
ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHICS
Other Means
200 6th Street, Suite 2G Brooklyn, NY 11215
T: 718.622.0907
FACADE ENGINEERING
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
480 Totten Pond Road Waltham, MA 02451
T: 781.907.9000
ACOUSTICS / AUDIO-VISUAL
T: 312.386.1400
THEATER PLANNING & DESIGN
Fisher Dachs Associates 22 West 19 Street New York, NY 10011
T: 212.691.3020
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Preservation Technology Associates
285 Reservoir Road Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
T: 617.598.2255
BUILDING CODE
Code Red
154 Turnpike Road, Suite 200 Southborough, MA 01772
T: 617.500.7633
COST CONSULTANT
Dharam Consulting
745 Atlantic Ave, Floor 8 Boston MA 02111
T: 617.913.4345
VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION
Syska & Hennessy
10 Post Office Square, Suite 725 Boston, MA 02109
T: 617.682.4776
SPECIFICATIONS
Construction Specifications, Inc
PO Box 488 Morganville, NJ 07751
T: 732.970.0700
DOOR HARDWARE
Robbie McCabe Consulting
27 Main Street Maynard, MA 01754
T: 978.243.8261
3D LASER SCANNING
Feldman Surveyors
152 Hampden Street Boston, MA 02119
T: 617.357.9740
DISCURSIVE SPACE
Another set of spaces permeating the project will support discourse between students and faculty, peers, experts and the public, and all the various constituents of the building. Like the intermixed voids of a sponge, these in-between spaces will be found through and between the departments, programs and research clusters of the school, creating the potential for connection, friction, and collaboration while still allowing for the identities within the school to remain coherent.
Ground Floor Plan
Section Detail - South Slab Edge at Rated Glass Floor Opening
The Public Network is elevated six meters above the street to provide a green pedestrian alternative to the vehicular nature of the major streets and intersections below. This bridging element will cross Via Gioia to connect the east and west halves of the Biblioteca degli Alberi. Also a north-south connector, it will span over Via irelli, thus linking new commercial development at the North to the east side of BAM, spearing through the Pirellino Building between. The elevated paths will be open to he public 24/7 with stairs and elevators strategically positioned to link street level nd below grade public spaces, parking, and mass transportation. Similar to the High Line, the Public Network will converge vegetation and pedestrian paths with portions of the elevated walkway widening to accommodate features where the public can relax and socialize. Under the residential tower, the Public Network will become a grandstand that spills down into the park, accommodating sheltered eating for the park and supporting planned public programming and informal, unamplified performance.
Concept for Superimposing Metal Grate Walking Surface over Planting Beds
N-S Longitudinal Section through Public Network and Day-lit Naviglio Martesana
Sectional Perspectives of Pedestrian Network, Typical 4m width (right) and Expanded Condition (left)
Cross Section Through Typical 4m Width Bridge
Surreal Garden
Lobby / Check In
PROJECT BLUE
Las Vegas, Nevada, 2018-2020
Hotel Redevelopment Master Project
Schematic Design / Design Development
ROLE
Schematic Design, Design Research, Concept Diagrams, 3D Modeling for Rendering, Scripting for Facade Design
TYPES OF QUEUING
Daily visitor volume in Las Vegas is over 100,000 people per day on average. To accommodate the large number of guests, a spacious lobby is required. However, the space becomes empty mostly except there is long queuing line for check-in. Also a new technology allows simple online check-in process to avoid long lines at the front desk. Surreal garden is an indoor botanical garden at the Project Blue hotel lobby that can be transfer to queuing station without the setting up stanchion or any temporary installation.
Surreal Garden
SECTION
Sunlight at the lobby is completely blocked by 737’ tall hotel tower. Installing heliostats on top of the tower brings natural light into the surreal garden to creat an environment where the tree and plants can live. The design of the Hiliostat was collaborated with James Carpenters design associate.
Heliostat
PROFESSIONAL WORKS UNStudio
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2016 - 2017
UNStudio, founded in 1988 by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, is an international architectural design network with three full-service international offices in Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Shanghai. We specialise in architecture, interior architecture, product design, urban development and infrastructural projects.
WASL TOWER
Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2014-2020
Mixed Use Tower (302 m)
World’s Tallest Ceramic Facades
ROLE
Computational Design / Scripting for the Facade, Rationalization / Optimization of the Facade Details, Detail 3D modeling / Scripting for Renderings
Ceramic Facade Design
The wasl Tower has one of the world’s tallest ceramic facades, cloaked with gentle ceramic features. Clay was chosen as a fundamental material for this facade, while additional fins are also manufactured from ceramic materials. This fine lace of fins over the basic skin literally veils the geometry. These fins only shade the facade, but also reflect daylight deep into the tower’s interior. The direction of the fins (12.8 degrees), as well as the dimensions and materialisation, have all been developed using the parametric data from the design model.
Theater Plaza
Water Front
Bangalore, India 2016 - 2022
Mixed Use Masterplan Project
Concept Design Brand Manual
ROLE
Schematic Design, Design Research, Concept Diagrams, 3D Modeling for Rendering, Tower Design - Scripting, Landscape Design
Urban Branding Manual
The Urban Branding Manual, developed by UNStudio for KTC, analyses the detailed components of the design with a quantitative selective process. The Branding Manual explains the design intentions and requirements and is conceived as a tool which can help facilitate the design intentions of the client, engineers, architects, and urban planners so that there is a collective understanding of the principles and motivations behind choices and requirements. This manual serves as a safeguard for the integrity of the design and assures that the urban vision is executed properly over the extended course of its life.
Bangalore, India 2016 - 2018
2 Office Towers in KTC Masterplan Concept / Schematic Design
ROLE
Schematic Design, Design Research
3D Modeling for Rendering, Facade Design / Analysis - Scripting, Landscape Design
Elevation
Generic Facade Modules
AMBIVALENT OBJECT
Gigantic Data Center in Iceland
University of Pennsylvania ARCH 701
Jason Payne
Growing most anything in Iceland is difficult as best. A cold, isolated island in the far northern Atlantic, even despite its rich volcanic soils Iceland has always proven to be a landscape that is hard to work. Subjects as the island is to extremes of temperature and daylight, Iceland provides little by way of a cultivated means of sustenance until recently.
Iceland’s new crop, however, requires that we look past outmoded distanctions between the natural and artificial worlds to see that what is poised to grow now in Iceland is not plant-based but rather a strange fusion between hydrothermal dynamics and information architecture. Server farms in Iceland tied in their development and rapid proliferation to limitless supplies of volcanic energy and the equally limiteless growth of raw data in need of manged, secure storage.
Reality of a Grid
Since a grid such as 10 fold symmetry quasicrystal is a two dimentional projection of higher dimension geometry, all intersections of lines what we can see are not real intersected points. By algorithmic analysis of the grid, the real intersection points can be found and used as foundation of the data center grid.
Data Center + Geothermal Powerplant
Over 1 million square foot area of a data center with geothermal powerplants is designed based on the layout of the grid research. The problem of form relative to extreme size in this building type remains tied to data engineers’ assumptions concerning spatial congifurations most conducive to various efficiencies required for the warehousing the machines and infrastructures of information.
Parafictional Site Plan
Limited resources and tough environmental conditions make Iceland depend on external inputs and foreign businesses, and it cuased problems like a financial crsis in 2008. Most of big data centers in Iceland now are by forerign companies. What if the data center in Iceland is no longer worth to invest in near future? Based on this parafictional scenario, the site plan is developed as an extension of Keflacik Airport.
Formal Camouflage
The key of the design strategy of this gigantic sized data center as a non foreign object is a formal camouflage. The massive volume of the building can be blended into the mystical Icelandic landscape not only by colors and patterns of materials, but also by the form itself. The overal form is designed in the far distance to achieve the formal camouflage, then building details are designed with various site photographs. All photographs were taken in Iceland with pre-planned exact locations.
Ambivalent Object
There seems always to be an ambivalence between the inside and outside of buildings, an uncertainty born of the differing design problems unique to each. This data center + geothermal power plant presents an extreme case of this, if not in terms of performance then in terms of composition. Necessary parts of performances from the inside such as an infrastructure, cooling towers and ventilation fixtures are exposed to the exterior, and create an unique form of the building.
1:144 scale is mostly used for miniature model such as plastic military models and for large aircraft models. The parts from the plastic model kit can be used for the correct scale and also for speculated parts of the architecture. The structure of the building is developed with 3D printed exterior panels.
1:144 Scale Model
VESSEL OF WORLDS Machine_Synthetic Natures
University of Pennsylvania ARCH 602
Simon Kim
The complex consists of several entities: a theater that augments the environment based on performance; a gallery space composed of multiple mobile pods traveling by tracks that plug into one-another to create new spaces with hybridized alternate climates; and a centralized foyer area containing islands and objects both reachable and unreachable.
This project challenges conventions by blurring the line between human and non-human agency, creating a pulsing vessel of worlds – each with their own climate cycles – that may or may not be affected by human activity.
Synthetic climate system is created by algorithmic design that the linear movement of each pod affects to the climate of an adjacent pod and itself.
All of these spaces, a theater and mobile pods as galleries, are synchronized by a fiber, a mechanism derived from and following the laws of laminar and turbulence flow, that varies in density to create several degrees of interiority.
Physical Model
The Project further defined a new role for the physical model, which was Frankensteined from the early stages as part of a synthetic-material study.
Vessel of Worlds
Both performance and gallery art is now augmented by the fragmentation of the 4th wall, allowing the user to engage with media instead of simply observing, yet also allowing the new worlds to affect each other, creating an autonomous galaxy. Consequently, the topic of contemporary design’s inevitable historical allusions to pop-culture – especially science-fiction – is challenged through the Vessel’s language and visual syntax, and the project insists on questioning the degree to which science-fiction affects us as designers.
Exterior_Theater Enterance
Mobile Pods_Sythetic Climate System
NEW LIVING OBJECT
Atomized Plan Micro Housing in NYC
University of Pennsylvania
ARCH 601
Kutan Ayata
The evolving demographics and life styles in urban centers require new modes of living. A recent turn in New York City and other Urban cneters have been to explore the potentials of “Micro-Units” which are ecently planned 300 sqft units for single occupancy. This new typology of housing has arrived only with the aesthetics of eciency and bears no disciplinary design agenda to participate in the architectural discourse.
This project is a Live-Work hybrid building just south of Soho, incorporating variations of micro units. The building has units for single/group of individuals and small families with sharing kitchens and living rooms.
Atomized Plan
Minimum required objects in the micro housing are understood as ‘Atoms.’ Each atom has a dierent size, character and potential. Combinations of these atoms create hybrid programmed spaces for new life styles. Combinations of these programmed spaces create micro units. This Atomized Plan is satisfied with new modes of living as well as eciency of micor units
Objects of micro housing
Because the site is only 3,500 sqft and 65 ft long, the atomized plan has to be grown vertically to create about 100 micro units in the building. A formal algorithm is designed to create veritcal forms and to control exquisitely. Each atomized plan is grown vertically by controlling its own rotation angle, twisti angle and height information and updated by editing sectional curve. This algorithmic design allows to have unlimited iterations in short time. The aesthetic of the form can be developed by 3D printing many dierent iterations. New atomized plans are created by this formal algorithm in three dimensionally included detailed dimension for ADA requirement.
Formal Algorithm
ICARUS
What if human had wings?
The Charette Competition
Alternate Realities 2020
First Prize Winner
The world of Icarus posits one simple idea: what if humans had wings? What if we had evolved with wings as just another anatomical appendage, as fundamental and ordinary as an arm or leg? This premise opens up contingencies that affect every part of the para-human history – from the way we survive, to the way we transport, the way we clothe, interact, and so on. More importantly, how do we cultivate our built environment?
TEAM
Gary Polk, Jung Jae Suh
ROLE
Overall Project Concept Design, Shared Role in 3D Modeling, Drawings and Renderings
[WAS]TE
Death of Architecture
Arch Out Loud Competition
WASTE : MULTI PURPOSE STADIUM IN LAGOS, NIGERIA
Honorable Mentions / Finalist
Materialism is at a tipping point.The material economy as we know it will soon administer its divorce from geometry, breaking the cultural constraints that are dependent on local and historically precise physical substances from sculpting form and filling volume. Instead, post-human matter - in the case of Lagos and many others, land ll - will become the one and only dominant source of building material. This element brings with it new potential of object production, such as that of new-tech fabrication, that can activate the involvement of the community at large.
TEAM
Gary Polk, Jung Jae Suh
ROLE
Overall Project Concept Design, Shared Role in 3D Modeling, Drawings and Renderings
THE 4 POINTS OF A NEW HOME Towards a New Ageless
Arch Out Loud Competition
HOLLYWOOD - The Last House On Mulholland Honorable Mentions / Finalist
This project proposes model residence that roots itself into the local scene of LA Hollywood while following the 4 Points of a New Home:
1. The Home is an actor maintaining agency of various scales.
2. The Home is a cultivation of its politics and environment, but transcends both.
3. The Home endures through the framing of the timely (hi-tech) by that of the timeless (lo-tech).
4. The Home is a vessel composed of numerous stages in intertwined play.
TEAM Gary Polk, Jung Jae Suh ROLE
Overall Project Concept Design, Shared Role in 3D Modeling, Drawings and Renderings
To encompass various kinds of activites from relaxing on the beach to a 500 person concert, the proposal takes into account seasonal climate and is programmed to allow the space to be adaptive year round. The architecture of the proposal is generated through planned events in both center Philadelphia and its peripheral regions into a circular loop with different levels and programs. The exterior of the site responds to a larger-scale programs like the waterfront pier, event space, and a beach for the coomunity to enjoy year-round sun in Philadephia.
IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA A Monument To The Delaware River
University of Pennsylvania
2015 Schenk-Woodman Competition 1st Place
It’s always Sunny in Philadelphia transforms an underused park and a rundown warehouse into a series of platforms that activates year-round events in the city of Philadelphia. Situated on Delaware River and adjacent to Penn Treaty Park, the project celebrates the historic identity of the Pwer Plant and also invites the Delaware extreme tidal experience into the personal beach.
