Kevin Chung (+1) 415 517 6261 Kevinchungdesign@gmail.com www.issuu.com/kevincwy
Academy of Art University 601 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94107
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ABOUT
Born in South Korea, raised in Singapore. Kev i n C h u n g s e e s h i m s e l f w i t h a multicultural background. Being brought up in Singapore opened his eyes to different tradtions and cultures. This expanded how he views the world around him. After finishing his high school degree, he pursued his dreams of surrounding himself with architecture and interior design at the Academy of Art University.
His passion for architectural process, human scale and evaluating the interaction between people and architecture drives his design process. Making the invisible become a tangible subject to the human eye.
Kevin believes that in design and personal skill, there is always room for improvement. So he is always willing to learn, and looking for new ways to improve his skills.
This portfolio shows the process that he takes when discovering new designs as well as interests that help motivate him to explore new experiences and skills.
CONTENTS
1 IIDA Competition Project (Office / Commercial)
2 National Geographic Headquarters
3 Mariotto Residence
4 Prudentia Living
5 IIDA Competition Project (Office / Commercial)
6 Residential Landscape Project
7 Other Interests
IIDA COMPETITION PROJECT
WOVEN HUB NEW BEGINNINGS The Woven Hub demonstrates multiple layers of social interaction from private isolated focus areas to open and active “courtyards”
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Weaving and Hubs. “The crossover and intertwining of weaving with the purpose of hubs coming together.” A straighforward idea of bringing connectivity with central force was the goal of this project. Looking at layers and seeing how they are presented to us and how we perceive them. Open office systems has offered a new source of designing an office space, however this has also created new challenges. This was overcome by using a combination of physical attributes of a space, how each space is defined as “open” or “private” or both.
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FLOORPLAN With a space that is dynamic in shape, there were challenges of creating a good balance of flow and moments of stationary spaces. The amount of natural light provided by the perimeter windows naturally led the design of the space to have open seating near the windows. This allows light into the central areas, as well as the difficult to reach areas to receive natural light. An additional challenge of this specific project was to create an “office by day and retail / event space by night.”
transforming coworking space. Smaller “focal/gathering” areas were designed after dividing the overall space by thirds. The overall shape being close to that of a triangle, it made the most sense to design three central areas. These central areas would serve similar function and purpose in order to provide this throughout the entire floor. Using different angles of axis points, pathways and hallways were designed to have intentional focal points.
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Woven Hub Reception / Locker / Kitchen
Concrete and wood finishes compliment the idea of a new age coworking space design. It has simple trending materials and finishes with playful vibrant pops of colored ropes and playful jungle gym-like metal cage that houses the reception
desk, lockers and parts of the kitchen. The woven hub embraces the younger look and feel of these finishes and does not shy away from bold colors without overpowering the senses. The coworking space still needs to serve its purpose as an efficient work space. The design of the woven hub must compliment the purpose of the space, not ignore it.
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Woven Hub Private Pods
The private pods offer variety within the space. Among all the offices and open office tables, sits four playful meeting pods allows users of the space to gather at these spots or simply gather their thoughts. It’s a quick stop and go location.
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Woven Hub Daytime Open Office
During the daytime the office is set of have tables that are attached to cables to be lowered for the coworking space. Chairs sit outside and can be stacked and stored into a closet close to the open office space. This space is what we call the “courtyard� of the office. It porivdes spaces to work, to meet, to watch, to eat, and socialize.
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Woven Hub Night time Open Office
A hidden design of the open office space or the “courtyard” is the hidden chairs that fold out from the floor. Once the office chairs have been stored away and tables lowered and raise to match the height needed for special night events that they will have at this space, the hidden seats can be flipped open. Floating tables offer display space for retailers; these tables can be pulled all the way up to provide an open stage on the “courtyard space.”
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SF HEADQUARTER OFFICE
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS OF SCOPE Seeing an enlarged view with and then with an overview. Different scopes to project different kinds of focal points and function. The scope of this project covers the smallest scale to the largest scale, using the idea of transcending size spectrum.
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Go Deep. The concept of searching deep within an environment to find what we have searched for. The idea of old explorers going deep within their adventures to find beautiful things in nature have been the history in National Geographic. The constant clash of high and low spaces can be seen in nature, but to find such things we must “go deep.� Therefore the idea of going deep ventures through different ideas of how we humans like to view and perceive things in nature and so the idea of a scope comes strongly into play within the design. The scope plays with different sizes and different elements to control how to perceive the design.
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DEVELOPMENT The biggest idea of the building design itself was creating a vertical connection rather than a horizontal connection throughout every floor. Floors can easily have horizontal connection but the real challenge lies on creating that constant flow of vertical connection through the entire structure.
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DEVELOPMENT The sketching development shows different processes of creating a cave like formation within a solid form. The crucial point of this process was creating connecting voids throughout a vertical and horizontal axis, this way it connects all three floors together to make the building a one complete organism.
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DEVELOPMENT This specific sketch presents the detailed sketch of creating the unique form that exists from the lobby all the way to the back entrace of the building. This curved structure connects from the second floor skylight, and continues down to the basement garden space.
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DEVELOPMENT A preliminary section sketch studies the dominant vertical spaces throughout the building. The lobby sketch shows a two story open ceiling that captures the awe similar to when entering a cave. There are waves of spaces that create high contrast spaces. Going from large to small then back to large, alternating the diffferent experience for the user of the space.
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FLOORPLAN All floors have a central core that lies on the left side of the building centerline going from west to east. The basement level central core hols the atrium garden and the multipurpose room. The atrium creates a focal point then diffuses the focus into the archive. The purpose of the atrium serves as a leader as well as a focal point to lessen the users feeling of being in the basement.
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FLOOR PLAN The first level holds the most important spaces and functions of the building. The spaces consist of a retail store, cafe, lobby / reception, exhibition space and loading dock for storage purposes.The same central core of the first level is placed same as the basement level. The reception and atrium run along the core from west to east. As guests enter the building, their visual focus is concentrated
to the open ceiling above in the lobby, as they move further into the building, the focal point gradually moves toward the back. The oscillation in the ceiling architectural structure aids this effect, creating a stronger movement within the visual.
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FLOORPLAN The second floor serves as the main office department for National Geographic. All editorial staff and design staff and located on the second floor. A significant difference on the second floor is that there are two central cores that cross each other. The core the is repeated on the first level and the basement is also apparent on the second floor, however the second core runs from the north to south.
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National Geographic North Section
Section shows clear distinction in vertical and horizontal connection. The office level is perhaps the only space that lies by itself due to privacy issues however other floors show a clear open connection. The orange shade shows the oscillation of architectural detail that is in the building. This movement
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is created from the west (the main entrance) towards the east (second entrance). The curves are created from imitating cave like forms. A curved surface created a smoother transition for visual purposes rather than using a direct translation of a rigid and geometric shapes of a cave. Further vertical connections are also visible at the back of the building where the garden atrium is. As guests enter the building from the back, they are invited by the large tree that can be seen from the first floor. These visual focal points bounce off each other as well as
complementing specific design details of the space. The large overall vertical connection was also created from the idea of a periscope and idea of having different angles of view.
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National Geographic East Section
The east section is used to represent four different importatnt attributes in the building. The red shade represent the elevator which is the only vertical element that goes to all levels of the building. The blue shade spaces represnt the different
spaces of the first level consisting of the cafe and exhibition. The orange shade represents smaller forms of the concept being converted into design details that follow throughout the building. The last attribute is the vertical open ceiling the reception lobby. The balcony that looks down onto the first level can be clearly seen for its function and purpose. The horizontal connection can also be seen on the first floor from the reception going all the way to the back entrance of the building.
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National Geographic Custom Office Seating // Exploded View
The exploded diagram of the custom millwork shows the technical details of the custom seating as well as the architectural curved wall that follows through to the first level ceiling. Custom precurved steel frames will hold the prefabricated gypsum boards. The steel frame will be attached to the top top ceiling metal studs as well as the floor studs to hold it in place.
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National Geographic Glass Balcony // Exploded View
The glass balcony will be fixed on the custom steel frame of the seating and wall detail. The glass will lie on top of steeltube joists with aluminium stringers. Two layers of glass, walking surface glass and structural laminated glass will be used. The glass balcony is a diffuser that is added into the office to allow employees to walk onto the balcony and take a break while looking down at hte reception area.
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ELEVATION
Retail store elevation showing the showcase design that will display the most important piece of the exhibition.
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ELEVATION Retail store elevation. A combination of concrete and white paint finish are used at alternating points of design.
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National Geographic Ground Level // Retail Store
A combination of low and high levels of showcasing allows for different objects to be strategically placed for different importance. Concrete flooring with conrete blocks create weight within the empty white space created by the white paint finish. Hanging copper lights and bars to hang clothes create focal points to liven up the space. The main showcase is a spherical form that goes into the wall, allowing the glass showcase platform to protude out and be a focal point.
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National Geographic Ground Level // Retail Store
The design of the center showcasing is based on the the simple fact that this allows vertical movement from the ground up. Allowing shoppers to browse through a range of items with ease. The layers of dichroic film covered glass are the only connections between the concept and the retail store. The items and objects in the store need to be the focal point, not the other way around that takes attention away from the shoppers. The dichroic film simply adds color and complements the copper colors.
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National Geographic Ground Level // Retail Store
The overall design of the store allows shoppers to move around the central showcase platform with the spherical showcase facing the counter. Floor to wall transitions of concrete allow use of materials to tie the whole space together.
Large east facing windows allow light to come in and refract agasint the dichroic film, creating a range of colors within the store. This idea of changing colors was inspired by the magical feeling of nature and man coming into contact with each other, whether it creates conflict or peace, it creates some kind of emotion within the user.
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National Geographic Ground Level // Retail Store
The entrance of the retail store creates a separation from the main central core of the building from the retail store. The hexagon shapes repeat a pattern and rhythm that would feel from the oscillating ceiling details in the lobby area. The between between these two design characteristics is that one
is a geometric shape with sharp corners, whereas the other is a continuous smooth rhythmic pattern. The window showcase presents three different items that are related to the current exhibition that would be showing in the building. Same dichroic film create a contrast between the wood texture and the white background of the whole building.
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National Geographic Ground Level // Cafe
The cafe is the starting point as well as the end when touring the exhibition floor. It’s cool textures of concrete flooring and metal juxtaposes the warm white and wood textures throughout the rest of the floor. The exposed concrete invites a small dash of nature that sits outside of the building. Parts of the exposed concrete ceiling have glass paneling to reflect what’s below, more reflections from the glass table top. The cafe is deisgned to be sharp, cool and in motion, emphasized by it’s interior finishes.
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National Geographic Ground Level // Cafe
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National Geographic Ground Floor // Gallery
Before entering the main space of the gallery, tickets must be bought by visitors by going through a small hallway that leads to the archway of the gallery. This hallway / tunnel creates a cocoon like cave over the visitors, once visitors reach the archway, they feel a sense of relief as the archway
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leads them to a simple white and brightly lit ceiling soffit. As if the visitors had come through a cave and reached the exit they were looking for by the bright light at the end of the tunnel. The gallery has a very simple square layout with a bisecting archways with turning artwork displays. The ceiling soffit continues sideways throughout the gallery and curves down toward the adjacent wall of the gallery. slowly decreasing in ceiling height, visitors are reminded that they are still in a enclosed space.
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National Geographic Basement Level // Library
Taking inspiration from Louis Kahn, the library inventory isles imitate the natural lighting taken from the Kimbell Art Museum. The cave like tunnels and old concrete train stations were the inspiration to creating an intimate space where a reader feels alone, but secure; perhaps
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giving a reader some respite from their everyday lives. To escape from everything and enter into the great world of NAT GEO. To be captured by the curiousity to find out more about the world. Smooth and curved archway openings are cut into the isle to allow visitors to sift through the library and move sectionally as if they were venturing through a cave.
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