mia.yeunjin@gmail.com

mia.yeunjin@gmail.com
www.issuu.com/mia_jeong
mia.yeunjin@gmail.com
Rhode Island School of Design, USA
Graduated with Master of Arts in Adaptive Reuse
Awarded the Graduate Fellowship
2016
Masters of Architecture (Complementary Fall Semester)
2014
Danish Institute for Study Abroad, Denmark
Summer Studio in Scandinavia
2015
University of Sydney, Australia
Graduated Bachelor of Design in Architecture
Awarded the Dean’s Outstanding Merit Scholarship
2011
ACG Senior College, New Zealand
Graduated with First in Cambridge A level Graphic Design
2008
Vectorworks, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Google Sketchup
Revit (Completed Revit course at Sydney Institute of Tafe)
Artlantis, Twin Motion
Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Bilingual. English and Korean.
Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (FJMT), Sydney, Australia // 2012
Full-time Graduate Architect // Contributed to drawings in the design intent documentation phase for a large educational project in Singapore as a core part of a team.
Contract Work
Sydney, Australia // 2013
Renderer during the design development stage for a series of retail pods.
RISD Interior Architecture
Providence, Rhode Island // 2015
Graphic Designer role // Designed and developed posters and brochures for the department
TNB Architecture
Brooklyn, New York // 2016
Part-time Graduate Architect // Contributed to the design of residential projects of various scope for a start-up firm.
Gerald Del Priore Architect
Brooklyn, New York // 2017
Full-time Graduate Architect // Assisted the Architect on a new build residential project in the documentation phase.
Waterfall Associates
Britomart, Auckland // 2017-2020
Full-time Graduate Architect // Assisted in concept drawings and feasibility studies // Co-ordinated with landscape designers, interior designers, engineers and builders on various residential projects in New Zealand and Fiji // Submitted resource consents and building consents.
Jose Gutierrez
High St, Auckland // 2021-2023
Full-time Graduate Architect // Working alongside the head architect as the main point of contact on residential projects
Redwood Library and Athenaeum is a place that celebrates knowledge, art and the written word. It is a specialised space for thinkers, writers, vibrant conversations and an exchange of ideas. The new intervention invites the Newport community to experience the building; breaking down the barriers historically established due to the Library’s roots as a private and elite institution. The new proposal addresses this current need for openness.
The haphazard additions over the years resulted in a confusing circulation, function and environment. There is an uneven distribution of books and space and the rooms become denser and smaller as the building progresses. This quality of imbalance has been harnessed to create a dynamic experience of space. Heavy, solid spaces within this monolithic structure are interspersed with glass boxes that create moments of lightness.
The excavation of the basement introduces a new entrance through a gradual opening; slowly exposing the visitor to experience the architectural additions and encouraging a meandering through the building. This earth terrace into this excavation creates a relationship to the landscape and Bellevue avenue and prompts the visitor to emerge out of the building by wandering into the green space; diffusing the end of the journey. This archaeological journey between new and old, light and darkness, submerged and exposed, uncovers the layers of the Redwood and explores the possibility of a Library as place of limitless potential.
As a complementary class to the design studio, we designed an installation to invigorate the Redwood library. The installation is a public piece for the community to enjoy and engage with. The concept draws upon the nautical history of Newport by using ropes while also taking into consideration the needs of the overcrowded library. We utilised the unused outdoor niches by creating reading nooks with a colorful rope curtain and customised seating. The class pitched the idea to the Redwood Library committee, sourced the materials from local companies and negotiated a sponsorship deal, designed and installed a structural system that minimises the impact to the historical building, constructed the furnishings and installed a lighting and sound system on site.
Sydney Harbour’s Cockatoo Island houses several industrial buildings and has been lacking an overarching purpose since the demise of its role as a centre for shipbuilding. The island is used with great success to house art installations during the Sydney Biennale, therefore, the opportunity for a Museum for Pacific Arts would bring Cockatoo Island alive on a permanent basis.
The Cockatoo scheme harnesses the rich qualities of the site to create architecture that seamlessly emerges from the terrain. The proposal utilizes the natural spatial opportunities of the cliff-face, embedding the scheme into this element intrinsic to the island.
To respect the Pacific Island spiritual views on art; quiet spaces of reflection has been designed to evoke an inward experience. The scheme incorporates existing structures at the base of the journey and the visitor is then led through a series of spaces to gradually ascend the cliff wall. These intimate spaces protrude from the cliff and link together like a network of islands. Bridges weave within the cliff, through solid and void, providing the visitor brief glimpses of the harbour. These paths create transition periods in between each exhibition, providing time for the visitor to appreciate and reflect.
Architecture and emotion are intertwined as the experience of light and shadow become as critical as the floors and walls. The final space houses a meditation room where the visitor is invited to wash their hand, cleansing them of the Tapu (sacredness). This Pacific Island ritual marks the end of the journey.
“One of the best things about paintings is their silence which prompts reflection and reverie”
Design Principles covers the foundations of architecture by exploring equilibrium through various mediums, harnessing movement through a chosen threshold then culminating these concepts into an architectural form. This studio was personal in nature and was deeply rooted in exploring one’s own architectural language.
I was interested in the fluid movement of the human form and the shape created when emerging through a body of water. This concept was explored via the medium of video and a string curtain. The strings forming to the shape of my body as I walked through the threshold was filmed from two perspectives to capture the motion of the strings diverging out, responding to the movement of my path. The subtle indications dictated through each slight movement prompted the path formed in the following architecture.
I instinctively chose to analyse the solid and intimidating site via layering and masking through the equally heavy material of plaster. The iterations of the conceptual models and the act of dipping into plaster allowed the idea of emergence and submergence to form. This concept, together with the exploration of the string, developed into ribbons that created a structure that seamlessly prompted the visitor to move through the space as floor become wall which become ceiling, overlapping with each other as the spaces contract and expand responding to the needs of the program.
Conceptual Site Models
Conceptual Site Models
Conceptual Plaster Models
Threshold Models
Once a thriving industrial town, Taunton has now become a commuter town with a distinct lack of community. The proposal is a design that better integrates the Old Colony History Museum with its community and neighbourhood. Currently, the stark and monolithic museum is a contrast to its smaller residential surroundings. Every residential home in Taunton has a porch that almost seem like they are conversing with each other. The design proposal aims to bring the museum into this dialogue.
Developing on the porch architecture that is present, the proposed design is a series of interlocking interior and exterior compositions of deck, porch and vestibule to transition between spaces. This blurring of zone is experienced by the unfolding of the overlapping conditions and the ambiguity of indoor and exterior spaces. A permeable building is created that is more porous and accessible for the community.
A slow experience of space is created via landscaping, deck, porch, and vestibule. Each has its own functions that are flexible for community needs including lectures, movie screenings and extra exhibition spaces for an already overcrowded museum. The elements of the deck: slab/ footings/roof, has been analysed to continue as the elements transition into the interior. The language of the porch is extended inside through the consistent use of the grid. The smaller interior areas created by the integration of the deck become intimate areas of pockets of space in an otherwise stark and open plan environment.
FILM // COLLAGE ART // STENCIL ART // MANUAL SLR FILM PHOTOGRAPHY // GRAPHIC DESIGN
This studio component consisted of analysing a modern precedent situated in Scandinavia. The project gathered a group of architecture students of various backgrounds and training to work together in analysing the St. Henry’s Ecumenical Chapel through creating drawings and sectional model. The project culminated in our team physically visiting the site, enabling us to further build on our knowledge and documentation of the building.
NEW SOUTH WALES RETAIL PODS
// Rendering Contractor 2013
FRANCIS-JONES MOREHEN THORP
// Full-Time Graduate Architect 2012
TNB ARCHITECTURE
// Full-Time Graduate Architect 2016
GERALD DEL PRIORE ARCHITECTS
// Full-Time Contract Architect 2017
WATERFALL ASSOCIATES
// Full-Time Graduate Architect 2017-2020
I was involved in the schematic design stage of this project, assisting the architect by developing renders using Vray and photoshop. The project is a series of small retail pods inserted into existing structures to revive a business precinct in New South Wales.
During my time at FJMT, I primarily worked on the Stamford American International School in Singapore. It is a school that houses 1500 students with a GFA of 53,00om2. Facilities include learning classrooms, recreational facilities, and a modern sports arena.
I was involved with the project from schematic stage to design intent documentation. Main responsibilities included designing, detailing and documenting the layouts, materials and furnishings of all typical room types, classrooms, staff rooms and bathroom. Other duties included concept diagrams, drafting, modeling, sample boards and rendering as part of an architectural team in conjunction with Singapore firm A61 and contractor Lend Lease
At TNB Architecture, a start-up firm in Brooklyn, I contributed to six residential projects. I worked closely with the principal architect and client and was heavily involved in the process of all projects. The projects ranged in scale from kitchen/ bathroom renovations, extensive apartment renovations and also single standing house extensions. As I joined the firm in its very early stages, I was also involved in the process of branding using my graphic design skills and website building skills while also managing the office materials library.
An extension and renovation to a single standing house in Brooklyn. The area has many limitations to roof heights and floor area and we succeeded in creating a new master suite with bathroom and walk-in within the strict criteria.
Renovations to kitchen, bathroom and basement to a large single standing house in Brooklyn.
Kitchen
- 1 x 30" Pantry next to fridge
- Larger Cupboard
Living Room
- Seating (Island moved forward to align)
- Pantry faces kitchen
- Bookcases removed
A renovation of a former tenement apartment in a gentrifying neighbourhood of Alphabet City in Manhattan. The apartment was originally in poor condition (with a shower in the kitchen) and the current design elevates the apartment to current living standards.
The combination of two adjacent apartments in the Bronx by removing the adjoining wall and extensive rearrangement of layout and renovation throughout.
I was a full-time contract architect at Gerald Del Priore Architects, assisting the firm with a DOB application for a new construction of a 2 storey home in Long Island. Under a tight deadline, I worked closely referencing the New York code to alter existing drawings of the house, garage and driveway. I also created lighting and electrical drawings, in addition to updating sections and elevations to more detail.
As a graduate architect at Waterfall Associates, I was fortunate to have been involved in a wide range of projects and was responsible for a range of tasks given the small nature of the firm. From feasibility studies to resource and building consents to detailed design, I worked on multiple projects simultaneously. The scale of the projects ranged from a landscape resource consent to a seven storey apartment built upon an existing carpark. All projects were residential.
Resource consent, building consent, detailed design.
ANAWHATA // Art Studio addition to existing dwelling.
Concept, developed design, detailed design, resource consent and building consent.
VUNABAKA // New resort villas in Fiji
Concept, developed design, detailed design.
AWARUA // Boutique apartment new build on challenging sloping section.
Resource consent and developed design
// FULL-TIME GRADUATE ARCHITECT 2021-2023
At Jose Gutierrez Ltd, I worked alongside Jose on various residential projects as the main point of contact for the client, contractors and builders. The studio is a busy office with a policy of working closely with the clients and regular visits to site. My responsibilities ranged from managing the contractors, designing interior kitchens and bathrooms, resolving bespoke details and creating client presentations.
MANGAWHAI // New 4 bedroom holiday home
Concept, resource consent, developed design, building consent, detailed design.
Detailed design, resource consent, building consent, construction observation. Currently in construction stage.
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