Architectural Portfolio '24

Architectural Portfolio | Selected Works 2019-2024

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Cornell University School of Architecture | B.Arch 2024

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PROJECTS Desire and Decay A site of cigarette butt recycling and sculptural regrowth.

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Born in South Korea and raised in Singapore, I am a creative thinker with a keen eye for design. Visual charettes and iteration guide my creative process.

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WINEWORLD An experimental wine machine and tourist polemical.

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EXTEND+ A housing complex for immigrants in the Ithaca Commons region.

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The Canopy A community boathouse in the Ithaca Fingerlakes region.

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Vertical Machinations A semesterly lodging for two scholars in the rocky Ithaca Gorges region.

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EXPERIENCE DESIGN Perkins Eastman, New York City | Jun 2022 - Aug 2022 Architectural Intern • Drafted section and plan proposals for unnamed commercial hospital project • Proposed site massing and researched concept precedents during the conceptual phase of the American University stadium project • Produced site models and contextual research for pre-conceptual phase of the Sutton stadium project in the UK • Produced site models and proposed conceptual massing and spatial proposals for mid-development phase of the UCLA Easton Stadium project • Attended daily team meetings to resolve technical and project issues, coordinate with team members and review project schedules.

EDUCATION CORNELL UNIVERSITY | Bachelor of Architecture Class of 2024 (5 year program) Cumulative GPA: 3.53

SKILLS AND SOFTWARES Adobe Creative Suite Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Lightroom

3D Modelling Rhino, AutoCAD, Enscape, V-Ray, Revit

Digital Fabrication CNC toolpath, Laser cutting, 3D printing

Programming, Simulations Python (Novice), Climate Studio, Grasshopper

Analogue Drafting, Model making

SPARK Architects, Singapore | Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 Architectural Intern • Worked on a large scale office campus for a notorious Chinese IT corporation and unnamed spa renovation projects in the mid-development phase • Drafted sections, plans and elevations for weekly client meetings • Proposed and assisted in space planning and drafting up of floor plans for Chinese IT Campus hotel • Proposed and assisted in façade development for Chinese IT campus towers • Assisted in material testing and renderings for unnamed spa renovation project • Produced graphics and gifs for company poster and social media • Attended daily team meetings to resolve technical and project issues, coordinate with team members and review project schedules.

Cornell University Sustainable Design - Sustainable Education Nepal, Ithaca | Feb 2021 – May 2021 Transition Space Sub-Team • Drafted and designed structural and spatial proposals for a school project in Nepal.

• Attended all team meetings to resolve technical and project issues, coordinate with team members and review project schedules.

• Assisted in developing and proposing transition spaces, coordinating between the structures and landscaping sub-team.

Grounded Architecture, Singapore | Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 Architectural and Graphics Intern • Assisted space planning teams in the conceptualization of initial ideas • Drafted and designed the interior design plan for a small-scale interior design project • Participated in web-design for the firm’s website

CHIHO & Partners, Seoul | Jun 2016 - Aug 2016 Interior Design Intern • Assisted the development of space planning concepts, color palette selections and textile presentations.

• Assisted the design of floor plans, elevations, 3D perspective views and material boards for review and presentation.

• Participated in furniture selection and documentation of specifications.

• Consulted with clients to determine interior design preferences to meet overall design goals.

LEADERSHIP Republic of Singapore Armed Forces, Singapore | Jul 2017 – May 2019 Deputy Operations Officer (1st Lieutenant) • Led, organized and conducted training exercises for the men of the battalion.

• Operated as Unit Safety Secretary, enforcing safety regulations and ensuring training conducts met updated safety standards, and served the secretary role in Safety and Unit Conferences through minutes and presentation handling.

• Operated as Duty Planning Officer, drafting and enforcing the Duty Officer roster and schedules.

• Planned and enforced execution of army operations in training exercises with Bionix II Infantry Fighting Vehicles with 30mm Bushmaster Cannon

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DESIRE AND DECAY | 01 SCULPTURAL PARK F i f t h Ye a r O p t i o n S t u d i o Professor: Ian Fletcher Site: Schiller Park, Syracuse

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CONCEPT In Syracuse, almost 15 million cigarette butts are littered onto the streets each year, at parks and kindergartens alike.

Unconcerned, the cigarette industry continues to grow, along with the hyper-capitalist obsession with continual growth, construction, and capitalizing on vice and desire.

Leached with toxic chemicals, our natural terrain continues to decay. My proposal takes the form of a machine-park that upcycles cigarette butts into sculpture via the mode of crow.

STRATEGY Cellulose acetate is an untapped resource, a plastic that can be 3D printed into building material.

The Dutch, ever innovative, have already pounced on this opportunity. Corvids have even been classically conditioned via automated machines to pick up cigarette butts in exchange for food.

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The park itself is a paradoxical site of desire - a perfunctory desire to maintain nature for selfish, human-sized enjoyment, for leisure, for smoking, for littering.

Born from this paradox, my experimental circular system of cigarette butts and crows initiates regrowth and decay, generating cellulose acetate sculptures for leisure on the backdrop of manufactured, self-cleaning nature.

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02 | WINEWORLD™ VERTICAL WINE TOUR F o u r t h Ye a r O p t i o n S t u d i o Professor: Gary Bates, Emma Silverblatt S i t e : S e n e c a A r m y D e p o t , N e w Yo r k

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CONCEPT The wine industry continues to grow, and the demand for wine with it. The natural terrain continues to be drained of nutrients and polluted. The site of the Ammo Depot at Deer Haven Park is a testimony to this, with its long military history and the resulting contaminated soils.

If all the land is contaminated, where do we find the environment to grow grape vines? Wine is a strange artifice of both the luxury consumption of capitalist structures and the natural, unaltered terrain. An experimental wine machine is proposed, mediating this paradox to ensure wine-making and wine tourism survive, in pollution, cold or drought.

1. HARVEST

2. PRESSING

3. FERMENTATION

4. BOTTLING

STRATEGY This machine is one driven by desire, spaces engineered to provide the ultimate sensual satisfaction for tourists. It is also a category killer, a year round full wine tour experience designed to beat all existing competition.

It is a vindication that people can continue to consume whatever they desire on the devastated land of the future.

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Add shadows, vip region etc.

and it provided a perfect opportunity to explore the possibility of an experimental wine tour that can operate regardless of climate, soil or air condition.

The tourists are objects within this machine of desire, forced to look inwards on the beauty of this fantastic WineWorld.

Inspired from the design of casinos, the pre-fabricated fly ash concrete panels offer limited views outside, through very specifically curated views, such as with the top enjoyment deck or the fermentation train.

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03 | EXTEND+ MIGRANT HOUSING T h i r d Ye a r F a l l S t u d i o P r o f e s s o r : Va l W a r k e S i t e : I t h a c a , N e w Yo r k

CONCEPT Immigrants’ occupancy needs change and expand over time, as extended families end up sharing the same house over several generations.

The project follows idea of the “unfinished”. Each of the housing units have an unfinished portion, which, while unfinished, performs as a localised greenhouse or second-skin to offset cooling and heating loads in temperate Ithaca, and while finished operate as extra rooming or function rooms for extended families.

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UNITS

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VOID DECK COMMON AREA DAYCARE SPACE

STRATEGY The community is sited in a suburbian neighborhood, not far from the commercial district of the city. The complex is situated around the Immaculate Conception Charity, which was originally sited here. The Charity already facilitates immigrant nationalisation programs, and we propose a new immigrant center around which the housing units are oriented, offering these serivces and more.

PARKING WORKSHOP CAFE LAUNDRY ROOM

On the east end the complex is bordered by a primary school and a recreational center for the neighborhood, Hence, it was important to maintain circulation and open-ness between and throughout the neighborhood programs and the complex.

The aim is to allow residents and local merchants alike to occupy commercial spaces within the first stories to allow for continual assimilation and contact with the local community, whilst creating a sense of inner community within the residents themselves.

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West Street Elevation (over time)

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04 | THE CANOPY COMMUNAL BOATHOUSE S e c o n d Ye a r S p r i n g S t u d i o Professor: Luban Dimcheff S i t e : I t h a c a , N e w Yo r k

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CONCEPT The Canopy is a community rowing boathouse sited in the Finger Lakes Region of Ithaca, New York.

The structure itself is inspired from the continuous set of rigid frames of the neighboring Farmer’s Market, and aims to mediate the relationship between land and water through a series of thresholds that divides top and bottom into public and private, open-air and enclosed.

This set of frames is covered by a poly-caronate canopy to provide public gathering spaces in case of inclement weather conditions, and to act as a ‘communal beacon’, lighting up the pier and adjacent park during the night-time.

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STRATEGY The structure extends as a longitudinal structure, offering boat programs in the void of the first floor, and offering the semi-private programs of the training gym, cafe and bathrooms on the hermetically sealed second floor.

The drawing below is a narrative and program study of rowers and their affiliated users, which informs the consequent design of the boathouse.

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05 | VERTICAL MACHINATIONS

CONCEPT

LODGING FOR TWO

From the rich industrial history of Ithaca, the site of the gorge was abstracted into modular, vertical elements as a conceptual basis for the design.

S e c o n d Ye a r F a l l S t u d i o Professor: Marta H. Wisniewska S i t e : I t h a c a , N e w Yo r k

A system was developed to navigate up and down this man-made gorge. The counterweight pulley system functions as both traversal vehicle but also epistemological recording tool for the topography of the site.

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STRATEGY The final residence is a synthesis of the two exercises.

Modular living spaces are vertically oriented to allow occupants to navigate around this stilted residence, allowing for changes in program and lighting.

The steel supports, corrugated ceiling and roof decking, as well as vertical machine elements pay homage to the strong industrial heritage.

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