Sanghyun Suh - Portfolio 2022

SANGHYUN SUH

Education 2015 - 2017

M.Eng

2018 - 2020

M.Arch

2020 - 2021

M.Sci

The Ohio State University

Masters of Architecture, MS Architectural Technology, M.Eng Welding Engineering, BS Materials science

The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture

Southern California Institute of Architecture Graduate with Distinction

EDGE Architectural Technology

Work Experience AU2021 - Current P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S

Architectural Designer / Design Consultant Projects: Los Angeles Dance Project, Sunset Urban Theater, Olympia, Erskineand more (Theater, Public Garden, Skyscrapper, Private House)

SU2021

Isida Rehm Studio

Designer Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism - Seoul Exhibition

SP2021 - SU2021

Lifeforms

Research Assistant: AI Sandbox

Damjan Jovanovich

funded by EPIC games

FA2020 - SP2021

Kinch

Research Assistant: AI + ADU

M.Casey Rehm

funded by Google AMI

SU2019 - SP2020

Banvard Gallery Gallery Assistant

hosted exhibition for: NEME studio, Tatiana Bilbao, Team B, MR studio, and Stephen Turk

Academic Experience SP2022 - Current Southern California Institute of Architecture Faculty Vertical Studio: Unstable Ground - Co-teahing with Marcelo Spina Seminar: Mirage - Solar Object and Mirror Mass - Co-teahing with Marcelo Spina AU2021 Soomeen Hahm Design Platform Workshop Tutor Automated Facade Assembly

AU2021 - Current Korean Institute of Computational Design and Technology (KICDT) Founding Committee / Actin Workshop Tutor SP2021 - SU2021 Southern California Institute of Architecture

Teaching Assistant: AI + ADU

taught with Mimi Zeigar and M.Casey Rehm Assisted with technical solution for machine learning, and coding for Java and Python & Deskcrit and Data visualization

SP2018 - SP2019 Knowlton School of Architecture

Sanghyun Suh is an Architectural Designer who is specialist in Computational Design using parameter based platforms, who is interested in the innovation in building technology and automated design process.

Prior to joining SCI_Arc, he studied Materials Science and Welding Engineering. And he received M.Arch at the Ohio State University; Knowlton School of Architecture. In addition to architectural backgrounds, he also holds Masters of Engineering, and Bachelor of Science in Materials Science where he studied the essence of materials in micro and messo scale through lenses of microscope.

Now at SCI_Arc EDGE program as post graduate student, he is investigating his interest in the form of synthesis of architecture and AIdriven design through multiple projects focused on machine aesthetics and utilization of machine vision as a tool and inspiration of design.

Aside from personal projects, he is currently involved in the research project for Google AMI investigating the possible solutions for ADU through AI utilization based on public datasets with M. Casey Rehm of Kinch. And developing an architectural design platform with EPIC games with Damjan Jovanovic of Lifeforms. After graduation, he worked with P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S and Soomeen Hahm Design for collaborative projects

Teaching Assistant

Structure I: Independent Consulting session, office hours Construction II: Independent Desk Crit for assignment, recitation, office hours

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Contact: suh.sanghyun.at@gmail.com

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CGU Cadigan Building Design-Build RFP Proposal

ROOFTOP SCHOOL OF ARTS & HUMANITIES

COLLABORATIVE SPACES & ROOMS

ADMINISTRATION FACULTY

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Seoul Autonomous Infrastructure Supervisor: M. Casey Rehm Team: Laure Michelon, Jiin Jeong, Kevin Foley Project Year: Summer 2021 SeoulAutonmous_WindSimulation.mp4

As a part of Seoul Architecture Biennale, Studio Kinch particiapted to research autonomous infrastructure generator to resolve the issue of housing crisis in Seoul, and environmental issues. Seul suffers from Asian Dust annually, and as a result of that, it is one of the places that has the worst air quality. The proposal is to create a program that generates autonomous megastructure to mitigate the dust issues and create more greenspace under the canopy that provides opportunit y for wilderness to grow back into the urban area. On top of the infrastructure, there is airfilter that captures the moisture and the dust so that it would contribute to the air quality improvment actively.

Top Axon Render of Seoul Autonomous Infrastructure generaated based on the generated wilderness Bottom Wind blowing direction and simulation of dust settlement based on the added infrastructure SCI_Arc EDGE Sanghyun Suh

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Typology of Fulfilment Studio Instructor: M. Casey Rehm Advisors: Soomeen Hahm Project Year: Summer 2021

The big part of the public’s unawareness of the political problems of logistics is because of its lack of access from the human environment. Human exclusion of the machinic landscape is partly the issue. The comfort of Amazon is tempting and persuasive but the result of the comfort is completely dislocated from the site where the comfort is produced. There are many checkpoints for your fulfilment to happen. From sourcing product to warehouse, and to distribution center, then to parcel ser vice, there are many steps. And Amazon is in the process of vertically integrating the whole procedure. But what if we can build a communit y where it provides the ser vices of parcel ser vice and the distribution center in your residentials so that it would be an obstruction to the stack of the system? The integration of the destination of the package with parcel ser vice and the distribution center can reduce the number of checkpoints for the fulfillment . As the electricity had to be integrated to the system of building, fulfillment is now integrated to the building, to our living.

The communally owned complex is a new typology in the attempt to be an obstruction to the amazon’s feudalism using cr yptocurrency and block chain as means of new ways of community formation and shared ownership, and to install the fulfilment , the new utility, in the architecture through providing hybrid living condition of human beings and machines in the hope that the idea of this new typology can be a platform of reforging the capitalist state into something new, a step for ward.

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Top TopDown View of the design - Site is in East Los Angeles Between 2 commercial Railroads, and 2 interstates Bottom Axon view of the design SCI_Arc EDGE Sanghyun Suh

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Human agent space

Other than the main circulation pink tile area is where human agents reside. They are surrounded by QR code wall where it indicates the address of the unit. In the meanwhile the intricate shape of the QR code wall is acting as a “fence” for the robot for the most of the time, where this can be valuable for someone who values the privacy.

Various Kinds of Agents and Different Mobility types

There are 5 agents in the complex in addition to human agents, and there are three categories: Domestic, Non-domestic, Inter-complex. Domestic agents are tagged to a specific unit and have specific working parameters. Non-domestic agents are free to roam around the complex with no limit in the working parameter. Inter-complex agents work to deliver goods from outside or deliver goods from one complex to another complex.

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Machine Agent Space

Fuctionalism within Facade and Tile design

As they were described above they have different types of mobilities and sensing methods so that specific parts of the complex are designed to accommodate these various types of agents. For instance, object detection works well with contrast in background and foreground in color and it works the best with a clear line of sight. And Lidar scan works the best in high opacity material with bright color. These considerations are applied to the complex design. On the other hand, for the needed privacy of human agents, these findings could be used in the opposite way. For example, deployment of a translucent panel with dark color could block the machine’s gaze into the human agent’s residential area if desirable.

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Machine agents can move under the floor within the structure grid and come out to the floor through the elevator spread out to the floor, so that they can make the fulfillment more instant. Main vertical circulation area is colored with bright yellow to act as “green screen” to avoid any collision between agents.

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QR Code Corridor

This is a special circulation that exist within the QR wall.

Through this corridor, machine agents are moving along and checking for any “fulfillment needs” of human agents Beyond this point Human agents are subjected for object detection, and data harvesting

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Program Diagram / Assembly

These ideas combined, 3 different scales of modules were designed one is for residential second is for circulation and third is for distribution center. The modular design was for the ease of automation in the process of design and construction.

Public Space Design

After the massing was placed the space inbetween the massing was filled with public space that activates the space above the railyard for fulfilment. This space not only connecting units between Bottom Axon Plan

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Machine Contextualism

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Studio Instructor: M. Casey Rehm Advisors: Damjan Jovanovic, Soomeen Hahm Project Year: Autumn 2020

How do machines see differently from us? Project start with this question. For us, 'context' means something more than just an array of information. Often, there is a certain hierarchy between one urban object to another, and certain characteristic and phenomenon are priotized to make us feel certain way. For machines, would it differ?

Will machines be capable of catching the 'feel' of the context? Can machine renders the essence of the human culture through its circuit board? Through the machine's sensors, the project attempts to create a new approach to the context we know of. It is an aesthetical exploration and an attempt on hybridization of human senses and machine senses. Through this project Machines will attempt to re-assemble, transform the context through Images. The site is situated in downtown Los Angeles currently empty parking lots between Hill street and Broad street . The site provides contexts of various typologies, construction t ype, aesthetics, and so on. Then the machine will look into the contextual information of the site to generate compositional ideas based on features and colors of the contextual information collected around the site. Through rigorous process of dismantling, reassembly, transformation it makes something odd, yet recognizable figures. This is the context of Los Angeles that machine interpreted. The machine does not priotize the buildings that are historically or publically more important the human meaning of Far from an hiearchical thinking of human yet relatable to human context.

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Top 3D point clouds assembly based on feature mathing algorithm Middle Image Assembly of Los Angeles using t-SNE Bottom West Elevation of building assembly

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Color Matching

From Context

From data sets machine extracted essential colors of the LA and created a color based compostion and rearranged urban facade elements into enticing compositions

From collection of images of facades of downtown LA, the machine is trying to understand the correlation between one to another based on its feature and colors.

Although what context means to machine might differ from how human think about the context of downtown LA

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Feature Matching

Based on the collected images, the machine treats the image information into data sets so that it can redefine the relationships between one urban element to another.

Then it reassembles the elements into many composition and suggests as a potential

Based on features that each facade element has, machine suggests myriad of facade compositions.

The benefits of doing so is grouping similar construction type, material types to encourage diversity to the facade design

Machine Contextualism Through the rigorous process of interpretation and transformation the new look of an urban object was defined as a collaboration between the human designer and the machinie. The benefit of machine agent in design is endless amount of compositio suggestion. and introduction of new aesthetics SCI_Arc EDGE Sanghyun Suh

Image Assembly From color matching, feature matching, facade elements that were not categorized became correlated to each other tightly based on machine logics through algorithm

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Hybrid Living Condition

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Studio Instructor: M. Casey Rehm Advisors: Damjan Jovanovic, Soomeen Hahm Project Year: Autumn 2020

In the middle of the Mohave dessert, there is a huge open land.

The project's goal is to build a hybrid typology where distribution center and high densit y residentials. This site is filled with various agents including human agents and different kinds of robot agents that's helping the automated logistic system. This hybrid t ypology provides new condition of living where machine and human co- exist and co-dependent to each other so that it creates an environment that is no longer strictly hierarchical where one belong to another. The t ypological condition of this project suggest speculative future that architecture is no longer designed specifically for human and human culture.

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Programs for Hybrid Living

Agents in the Site

The residential units are not only design for human occupation, but also it was designed with the consideration of machine agents' occupation and circulation. Columns are no longer just a column for structural support for human occupation but a circulation path for machine agents. And other interstitial space that is usually opaque and structural becomes

Varied Accessibilities based on Agent's Scale Based on the agent's size and type of mobility, accessibility of one would differ by design. For instance smaller agents can move through the walls and move freely from floor to floor, and from room to room, But for larger scale agents your accessibility is limited.

Subscription Service for Your Privacy Privacy is a new currency.

Based on your desired privacy level your personal information is exposed or blocked for the active data harvest on site by machine agents. You are exchanging your privacy for living assistance and discounted rent.

Top Plan drawing and programic division of a floor Middle Various levels of accessibility based on agent's scale Bottom Condition of Living for Human agents SCI_Arc EDGE Sanghyun Suh

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Given Site: Dessert In the middle of Mohave Dessert the Site was chosen, so the several satelite images of the surroundin of the site were collected to create a dataset for the

Inserted Program: SolarCity

Inserted Program: Distribution Center

A part of city that utilizes solar panels heavily on their roofs with big massing strategy was selected to compensate for machine agents electric consumption.

Distribution Center typology was selected to occupy the site for it to be used in a profitable way and to introduce good amount of transient agents

CygleGan Site Transformation Using Collected datasets from Dessert, Distribution Center, and SolarCity, CygleGan generated hybrid of two typologies on top of the dessert creating intertwined conditions of two typology following the imaginal topological condition and other characteristics that could be found in the drone survey image of the site

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Courtyard

Modularity of design makes this platform readily available to be installed in any location, if the foundational work with the vertical core is done. Based on your need, you can decide how many units are going to be attached to the core and configure the combination to your liking.

Entry for Competition Project Year: Autumn 2020

The project suggest the use of Courtyards of Parisian apartments. It is designed with the consideration of two possible outcomes for the usage. This first outcome is more houses per square footage.

The second is the reactivation of the cour yard and utilization of the collective space for more opportunities for housing. The C ourt yard is no longer a negative void that is populated by the typical parisian apartments. Through this project courtyards become the protal to many added neighbors above the existing buildings. With the increased floating population, the cour yards become more active and dynamic. Each block that has unit is 865 square meeter and they are interlinked with the columns extruded from the ground of the courtyards. They are connected vertically, horizontally, and more importantly Modularly. It is a holistic approach for the housing crisis of future Paris.

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Often, parisian apartment comes with the courtyard that is shaped as horseshoe, and the shape of the panel is from the typical typological condition found in the site. Also for the Color choice, Blue and White panels are referring to the color skims that is commonly found in the area. Formally, it is a megastructure that is extruded from ground but its design is rooted to the context.

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Right Exterior Panel, and condition of elevated ground plane offering new interface of interaction

Courtyard is lifted from void space in the block among parisian apartment. It is reactivation and utilization of the space that was under-used. The elevated ground is offering new ground that connects multiple neighbors in unexpected ways to offer moments of interactions between the tenants of this complex.

This Section drawing demonstrates a complex interlinkage between one unit to another, and one ground to another ground. This complex composition was made only with one geometry: Courtyard. Blue signifies vertical circulation between, and the yellow signifies a connection to the elevated ground. The elevated ground connects and disconnects each unit unexpectedly so that it addes to the complexity to organization to mitigate with the repetitive motive for geometry. Each unit is provided with full kitchen, living room, and 3 private rooms. All together the whole complex provides over 500 units and in total, can take 1500 tenants. And this is only for one block of the Paris, which could destress the high rental price of central Paris, and create more space to live for people who want to and need to live in Paris. If you assume this type of modular megastructure prevalent in the most of the paris, it could accomodate 250,000 more tenants per arrondissement. If apply to all 18 arrondissement, 4,500,000 more tenants could be accomodated, which could significantly drop the rent price of the city, and that could potentially invite more younger people, and creatives who couldn't afford to live in the city center before.

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Left Section showing scale difference between programs and intertwining of two Right Plan of main gallery and 3rd floor demonstrating mix of two programs; gallery and hotel

Based on the formal research above, mixed program, hotel and gallery, typology was designed. The focus of the design was to express formal and programmic conditions that are intertwined to each other to create interesting moments formally and spatially. There were specific moments of mixing between one program to another through their circulation, point of view to have playful intersection from a user of one program to another program.

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SLATE LIBRARY It is a local library situated next to a small valley. The valley has exposed slate stones extensively, and the slate stone became the design language to reflect the specific geological condition of the local context. The composition of the form resembles rock formations of the site where each planar rocks are leaning towards each other, making idiosyncratic yet harmonical rhythmical composition. It is a monumental take on a local library with the mindfullness of critical locality of the site.

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Bottom Section of the building. The section demonstrates the spatial condition that is referring to the geometries of exterior composition.

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Duplex

From Rem Koolhaas' "Element of Architecture", I picked 3 elements: ' Wall, Corridor, Stairs' then added another element 'Duct' to act as performative element to create a 'set' of architectural performances. The typlogy is Duplex, and each architectural element is designed to create performance

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Studio Project Advisor: Jeff Kipnis Project Year: Autumn 2020

The project was designed to perform in the video format.

Video format should demonstrate the stor y of two groups of tenants that is divided by walls within duplex where they have "duct" as architectural element to let the sound, smell, and some peekthrough between one space to another space.

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This mausoleum is in the middle of Harajuku, Tokyo. Due to the high property price, memorial of the dead should be compact. Considering Japan's burial tradition and their cultural closeness to Buddism, cremation is common practice. Thus, the design of the mausoleum is reflecting of these cultural context, and the form of the architecture is a re-interpretation of Pagoda in Buddist temple.

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1. First tab is the mode selector; this mode selector would turn your interface into Edit, Select, Delete. Edit is where you can place your modules in the scene, Select would enable the ability to select the placed modules then would let you rotate the placed modules in 90 degree angles by either key actions (x,c) or by Gumble around the selected object 2. Each of the rectangle represents various types of modules.

Module varies by connectivity with its neighbor in the vicinity. First rectangle button having no connection to the last rectangle button represents 4 connections around one module.

3. The last tab on the left is to indicate and remind you what mode you are in, and which module you selected. This reminder system would help you check the current status of your interface and visually indicate the process of the building process in game. multiple modes designed into the game: Edit, Select, Delete mode available

To add another layer of aesthetic treatment to interupt the repeated nature of the modular design, Decal feature is integrated into the design. Decal helps with mitigating the modularity, and at the same time tr ying to combine the fragmented nature of the modular design, and could give the modules more individual characters as the end product

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Blue box indicates the projected location of placement for the selected module.

This box is enabled when you are in the Edit mode. Whereas, the Gumble is on when you select Select mode to make desirable changes for the modules that are already placed in the game.

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Project Credit: Daniela Cadavid, Charlene Chen, Emily Dinnerman

Rewilding Urban scape based on Cycle-Gan for thermal comfort

placement of the patterns of beverly hills in downtown LA

Transit map based affordable housing placement using transit map, image based realestate value estimate

Low Desnity to High Density based on existing city layout

Estimate of Thermal Comfort and Solar Panel placement using transit map, image based realestate value estimate

Automation of CLT Layout based on structural load conditions within the geometrical condition. These customized CLT panels are not only functional but functionally aesthetic. Designed CLt panels can be dissected to multiple parts and transported to the site to be assembled with ease

AI and ADU

Advisors: M. Casey Rehm, Mimi Zeigar Project Year: Spring 2021

This project was funded by Google AMI grant, and there are two parts. One is utilization of AI to cope with the site selection. There were many approaches were researched. One example was picking site for Affordable housing, and TOC. AI was used to create a platform to make correlation between the affordable housings and TOC in Los Angeles. Another example is placement of ADU. Using CycleG an, existing satelite images were transformed into high density residentials with addition of ADUs to test out the density changes and automatic placements of ADU. The second part is automation of ADU construction using "Customizable CLT panels". Based on the modular design layout for ADU, Cross-Laminated-Timber are placed automatically with agent-based assembly. The assembly considers structural integrity, and the directionalit y of the CLT panels. To optimize structure and construction, Finite Element Analysis was done, and calculated weight transfer to determine the CLT panel layout direction SCI_Arc EDGE Sanghyun Suh

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