Future Seoul / Hangang
In a place of spatial instability such as Seoul, the Future is a parameter of the present. The city's shape, its geography and all architecture are constantly renewed. Society as a whole, its organization and social norms are evolving at such a fast pace that the Context is an unstable landscape. For this we created a studio where Future Seoul is studied, where the students can freely invent their future society, a defamiliarized place where to invent new types of programs.
Seoul National University / Third Year Studio / 2019 - 2022
Theater in Hongdae / Seoul
Mangwon - Hongdae is one of the neighborhoods where contemporary Korean culture is made. Korean Indie-Rock, Pop, Dance music are all first made in the small alleys where a myriad of clubs, practice spaces and art schools reside. Mangwon, originally a neglected working-class neighborhood, it brims with social life and attracts party-goers from the entire city. Students take time to explore, choose a site, develop a theater / music venue according to their understanding of the program, social and physical context.
Seoul National University / Third Year Studio / 2018 - 2022
Dancing In NowhereLand
In order to design within the process of town-planning, sometimes architects have to base themselves on the weakest of contextual information. In the outskirts of Suwon, a 10.000 people neighborhood is being planned from a tabula-rasa of rice fields, junkyards, disused factories. History, geographical information has been blurred into an extended non-place. Students have to rise to the challenge and create a meaningful theater space, whether starting by looking for contextual clues or by creating internal programmatic / compositional forces. The starting point is the stage itself, with a production design exercise.
Seoul National University / Third Year Studio / 2021 - 2022
Gwangmyeong Eco-Design Workshop
Each year High-school students are selected to follow an intense 5 days course in which they learn about space design, nature as an engineer, and ecological design. They learn to work hands-on, in a communal way, where individuals learn to cooperate rather than compete, unlike most of Korean education today. One to one scale prototypes are made and discussed with designers guest-critics.
Gwangmyeon Upcycle Art Center / 2016 - 2022