SUE CHOI 2019 Portfolio

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SUE CHOI landscape architecture selected works 2019

SUE CHOI aka Suehyun Choi MASTERS IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 2020 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee Graduate Research Assistant, 2017-Present Senator, Graduate Student Senate

BACHELOR OF ARTS, STUDIO ART 2016 Centre College, Danville, Kentucky

Pi Sigma Alpha | Omicron Delta Kappa | Phi Betta Kappa

WINTER EXTERN 2018 Civitas, Inc., Denver, CO SUMMER INTERN 2018 The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Washington D.C. What’s Out There Nashville research + photographs

HONORABLE MENTION, LA+ MAGAZINE “ICONOCLAST” “Greenscreen,” with team COWBOY SPACE EMAIL: INSTAGRAM: FLICKR:

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REFERENCES: Gale Fulton Director, School of Landscape Architecture, UTK gfulton@utk.edu Scottie McDaniel Adjunct Assit. Professor, School of Landscape Architecture, UTK scottie.mcdaniel@utk.edu

STUDIO WORK AVIARY INDICATORS FOR REMEDIARY SPECIES “Dendritic Taxonomies” | Spring 2018 | Instructor Andrew Madl

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PROPOSAL FOR REST AREAS ALONG THE TENNESSEE RIVER UT River Studio | Fall 2018 | Instructor Brad Collett

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PROJECT GREENSPACE LA+ ICONOCLAST Competition | Fall 2019 Issue | Cowboy Space

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EUROPEAN URBANISME (video) Digital Representation II | Spring 2018 | Instructor Scottie McDaniel

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SOMETHING SCARY SOMETHING PRETTY* “The Knoxville Menagerie” | Spring 2019 | Instructor Scottie McDaniel

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OBSERVATION URBAN WILDERNESS - EXPRESSIONS AT IJAMS

(comfortable in) Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects, Portfolio; Rhinoceros 5 and 6 and Grasshopper; Google Drive and Google Office Suite; Microsoft Office Suite; handdrawing; converational Korean. (working on) ArcMap 10.6 and ArcGIS Pro; AutoCAD; drawing from imagination; writing eloquently. -1-

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STUDIO

The selected site in Nashville is an industrial side prone to flood. Monetary and temporal damages from the 2010 Nashville flood suggest that the site might benefit from a new paradigm. This project imagines programming and topographic language that is vastly from its current site-less industrial-commercial usage. I propose a site that is suitable for the Northern Bobwhite, an indicator species and the state game bird for Tennessee, and the remedial properties of poplars to rehabilitate the site for an urban ecosystem. This second semester studio focuses on the connection between form and function and ecological, social, and economic systems. Rhinoceros 5.0 and Grasshopper are the primary tools of this studio. -3-

AVIARY INDICATORS FOR REMIDIARY SPECIES “Dendritic Taxonomies� | Spring 2018 | Instructor Andrew Madl -4-

_ beginning The beginning of this project starts with the inciting incident, the flood of May 2010 that impacted the site of interest. I focused specifically on the industrial pollution on site. An inventory of the existing businesses (most of which have been at the site since before the flood) and their chemical output are collected through the catalog provided by the EPA. While imagining the phyto-heroes colonizing the site, I imagine aviary tenants for the plant-rich scenario... -5-

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_ existing programming Nashville has been a bustling and vibrant city especially in following the flood. Understanding the current usage and spatial layout is essential to form effective proposals. Through this exercise, I notice that there is a lack of open green space especially near the residential area that neighbors the project site. - 7-

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_ understanding by making In tandem with the research about Nashville, I am learning how to parametrically generate form and understand their properties. These three iterations were created with performance and visual interest in mind. -9-

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_ protagonist research In hindsight, I might have benefitted more from focusing on either phytoremediation or creating habitat for a gamebird; but I was determined to find a way to make it all happen. How did they all align? This seasonal diagram combines Nahsville’s climate, phytotech. candidates, and the life cycle of the bobwhite to show the cohabitation of all three systems on my site. -11-

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_ site proposal I propose a gridded complex, one that mimics the city grid happening west of the river, with sets of building envelopes that differ in sizes and location. Riverfront property and apartment complexes provide more housing opportunities for the city, along with concentrated patches of grassland that provide natural habitat for the bobwhites. -13-

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_ timeline A 120-acre site cannot be built overnight. I envision the project coming together over three decades, where the existing industries move out of the land and are slowly overtaken by agricultural crops suited for phytoremediation, and then grasslands for bobwhites, which would naturally attract social programming and love for the site. -15-

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_ future prospects Eventually as Nashville continues to grow, more housing would be needed. Towards the ‘climax stage’ of my proposal, the project site will become habitable by the Nashville community. These building envelops are diagrammatic suggestions for building shapes that will not interfere with the light required by the plant community surrounding it. - 1 7-

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_ social and environmental harmony The sustained model would be a stage for harmonious community centered around the northern bobwhite, the animals it attracts, and social programming surrounding the grassland community for the bobwhite. -19-

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STUDIO

< Rest > is an essential part of any network. The Tennessee RiverLine will primarily be a transportation network of multi-modal trails, where the medium of the travel will be the Tennessee River and the land surrounding the waterbody. Rest, for any traveler, will be an integral part of their movement throughout the RiverLine. The Tennessee RiverLine RiverStop is a conceptual foundation to capitalize on necessity for a transportation network. The RiverStops will serve as an < interface > between different members of the RiverLine: from the Hero User to the residents of the local community, between watercraft users and land vehicles, and also between people and natural resources, to foster a dialogue about the history and future of the Tennessee Valley. -21-

PROPOSAL FOR REST AREAS ALONG THE TENNESSEE RIVER UT River Studio | Fall 2018 | Instructor Brad Collett -22-

_ study of territory The Tennessee River Watershed includes four major cities (Paducah, KY, Huntsville, AL, Chattanooga, TN, and Knoxville, TN) and the 652-mile Tennessee River. I started the research by looking at macro-level demographic and geographic data. -23-

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_ ‘rest’ Research conducted over the first phase of the studio revealed public health and economic development as important needs for the community. While researching two important trail systems (the Appalachian Trail and the American Interstate System), rest emerged as a clear and essential priority for trail systems. As the “Tennessee RiverLine” was shaping into a system of multi-model trails, I proposed the Tennessee RiverLine RiverStop as my studio project, as a site for the RiverLine Culture to propagate through the region. -25-

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_ amenities Further research into amenities of rest lead to a collection of identifiable features of a space. Here those features are arranged in a range of ‘capacity’ required for initial construction and future maintenance. These icons serve as digestible bites of what is available in a place. - 2 7-

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_ ‘rest as opportunity’ I found Eva, an unincorporated community near New Johnsonville, along the 652-mile stretch as an interesting case study. The TVA Johnsonville Fossil Plant closed in 2017. Eva Beach, located only 2 miles from the plant, had the plant in perfect view. With the dusk of the TVA fossil plant behind, what kind of new amenity could be imagined? -29-

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_ ‘rest as attraction’ The RiverHub is a conceptual structure that would serve as a community center to the local and transitory community along the Tennessee River. Requiring more initial and sustained capacity, there would not be a lot of RiverHubs along the RiverLine, but each would suit the demands and wants for visitors. -31-

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_ ‘rest as necessity’ The RiverStay fits more of the immediate desire and vision for the Tennssee RiverLine. The structure accommodates individuals and provide a safe harbor away from unpleasant climate conditions. Strategic placement of the RiverStay would encourage people to find appropriate locations to rest, creating harmony between the traveling and local community. -33-

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PROJECT

with COWBOY SPACE members James Halliwell + Dustin Toothman Greenscreen is a response to a fictional future, where the iconic Central Park is erased overnight by eco-terrorists. What, then, is the response of the 21st century zeitgeist? With James Halliwell providing dream-like drawings and Dustin Toothman setting the creative direction, I crafted the recollection and excitement for New York’s New Past. This section provides the drawings and the narrative from the competition entry. -35-

GREENSCREEN LA+ ICONOCLAST Competition | Fall 2019 Issue | COWBOY SPACE -36-

The disappearance of Central Park forced me to confront its integrated existence in Manhattan. The breathing treasure of New York ceased its existence and the relative color. In the presence of the void, the United States Government introduced the Digital Representation Preservation Corps and revealed their ongoing project: digital catalogs of physical artifacts and spaces. The DRPC was created in response to threats against monumental spaces of identity. In that year alone, humanity lost the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro and most of Yellowstone National Park, but the cataloging had started long before. The extinction of heritage posed a permanent threat in the twenty-first century. The loss of artifacts meant a loss to heritage, and for an entire population to cope with that loss, event after event, was enough to trigger a federal strategy: the defense of memory. “BETTER THAN THE REAL THING…”

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Tapes and signs plastered with the slogan surrounded the perimeter of the site. Sorrow and anger motivated protesters against the mysterious project. As the project neared completion, a line formed throughout New York City, with people longing to re-experience the new Central Park. Soon, a visitor’s center opened and equipped people one-by-one with a headset. “Better than the real thing,” it promised, and by putting it on visitors stepped into Central Park once more. In that moment, every plant species, wildlife, and even artifacts of human life that took the place of the void were re-presented to us. The protests faded and everyone applauded the monumental effort of the architects for the new virtual-physical experience.

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It has been three decades since the incident. The new Central Park became synonymous to New York’s identity again. Almost all residents and visitors have chosen a discreet way – implants – to enter Central Park at the blink of an eye. DRPC expanded their collections of digital memories and deployed them from and throughout the globe. Physical spaces that I have only experienced through history books and sci-fi flicks became accessible in my backyard. We no longer worry about the loss of physical space, historic buildings, or extinct species. Imaginations and dreamers replaced the breathing infrastructure of New York. It has never looked more natural. //

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PROJECT

An exercise on polemic statement started with investigating a successful landscape architecture firm and culminated in this < 3 min. video. Drawings based on quantitative and qualitative research became the basis of an inter-continental comparison between the firm Agence Ter’s proposal for Les Halles (2004, Paris) and Pershing Square (2016, Los Angeles). -41-

EUROPEAN URBANISME (video) Digital Representation II | Spring 2018 | Instructor Scottie McDaniel -42-

“European Urbanisme in the City of Angels” duration: 2’54” music: Bensound, “Funky Element” Rhino + Google + Illustrator + After Effects available at https://tinyurl.com/choi-Eu-Urb

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“Something Scary Something Pretty” is a wokring title for this semester’s studio work. As a studio we are investigating “urban anomalies” in the city of Knoxville (our head quarters) and I was assigned the topic of “pink arrows for the dogwood trail.” Upon investigations I am most attracted to the element of “disguise,” “deception,” and “misdirection” as the Dogwood Trail heritage started in 1955 and become absolutely popular in the 60s and forward. Using the Tennessee-native dogwood as a distraction to the “ugly city” and wartimes is an intriguing mode of place making. The few excerpts I have here try to work out the history and relationships between history and themes along the Dogwood Trail.

SOMETHING SCARY SOMETHING PRETTY (in progress) “The Knoxville Menagerie” | Spring 2019 | Instructor Scottie McDaniel -46-

The Contender

The Hero

The Garden

_ history The history of the Dogwood Trail in Knoxville starts in 1947, when a reporter from New York, John Gunther, published that Knoxville was the “ugliest city [he] ever saw in America.� Appalled, three women of the Knoxville Garden Club set out to plant dogwoods in their neighborhood. Once the trees set to bloom, and irresistible By the late 60s, 11 trails became part of a yearly city-wide yearly festival. Celebrating its 59th anniversary this year, the Dogwood Arts Festival is one of the biggest events in Knoxville with 12 trails (last one joined in 2011) always marked by the pink marks. - 4 7-

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_ connections

https://youtu.be/Bm3u2NWfPow

In the winter, there are no flowers. The boistrus construction of the dogwood legacy os taken away, bract-by-bract, to reveal its raw branches. I introduce some of the counterparts in history to the composition.

_ analogs I am currently putting together some footages to juxtapose two very different worlds of the time: gardening and war. Both are creative and destructive activities, chaning the appearnece and integrity of earth and human. I take to heart Walter Benjamin’s ideas about reproducible technology and art, and the footages’ placelessness and spirit. - 49 -

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What is “Urban Wilderness?” In the city of Knoxville, it is a name of a system of forested land along the downtown’s south waterfront. Ijams Nature Center, a former marble quarry, is part of this system is open to the public for recreational use. “Rugged,” in contrast to clean-cut geometric forms of the city, is the primary expression of what is seen here. I document my visit through photographs and a series of sketches. Photos were taken with an Olympus OM-D EM5 I and edited in Lightroom.

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next page: 10 min study (left); 20 min study (right), both in pen -55-

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