Architecture Projects

Starfield Hanam is Korea’s shopping mall/culture complex mecca, constructed as a single building unit with a gross area of 459,517m2, 5 underground levels and 3 floors above ground. Although it is located on the outskirts of the city in an area with a lot of greenery, the mall was planned to be an indoors shopping mall considering Korea’s distinct four seasons. The high ceilings, clear circulation path for customers, open view structure plan and the nation’s largest skylight allow people to experience an openness unlike that of any other shopping mall. In addition, Starfield Hanam sets a new trend as a multi-functional shopping complex which not only caters to commercial functions, but also incorporates independent key tenants (mall, warehouse store), a movie theater, sports entertainment facilities and a waterpark.

Construction of the Songdo New Campus, Incheon National University, has two areas of significance. The first is that University of Incheon is becoming a national university and needs to take the opportunities that will, consequently, present themselves. The other is to present a future-oriented vision of the new campus in line with the change of the university’s research environment. The pattern of research activities in educational institutions, especially universities, undergo many changes. Research activities were performed in independent spaces of each research area. Now, new study and technology strategies are created through convergence on different areas. Therefore, Songdo New Campus concentrated on a campus layout plan and space plan in light of these demands. The campus can be utilized as a place of mutual exchange, using the Meeting Square and Promenade located in the center, and each department and college can exchange information in the shared spaces of the research rooms, laboratories, and lecture rooms. Songdo New Campus is a future-oriented campus that can respond with research activities in various areas flexibly to any possible new areas of study in the future. 

CONSILIENCE: It is called “The integration of Knowledge”, and is an integrated study, which links natural science with humanities. Following the Ancient Greek philosophy, which was intended to understand the essential order of the universe through logical retrospection, two perspectives of natural science and humanities was united as one. However, since the Renaissance, academy began to be divided into many parts by the perspectives of reductionism which highlights rational reasons. However, after the times of the Modernism, the contemporary world is the times of diversity and complexity. Now, the world has been entered the era of unpredictability and we cannot interpret the world with the reductionistic academic systems of the past. This means the advent of Consilience, which is the era of integrated knowledge and comprehensive knowledge.

The Legal Research and Training Institute is an institute for training the government officials of the Ministry of Justice who will be in charge of prosecution, protection, correction, and emigration and immigration control, and the new office buildings of the institute will be built in Chungbuk Innovation City. The buildings will be arranged in friendly relationship with surrounding nature through Landscape Carpet, and open space that will actively promote exchange among members will be formed by installing Interaction Valley. Moreover, a new paradigm of training institutes differentiated from existing institutes will be realized by introducing the eco-friendly energy circulation system based on the concept of Green Loop. 

The six-star hotel at the center of the best business district in Korea consists of a convention center, a mega fitness center, commercial facilities, the finest restaurants and more than 300 rooms. The space is attractive and energetic. From the moment you pass through the entrance, the interior of the hotel begins to catch all your senses. From the fragrant air at the entrance to the melodies flowing through the lobby to the fine texture of the front desk, you are surrounded by fresh and hearty experiences all at once. Imagine the space also full of softly filtered natural light. We designed a lively and sociable space, yet cozy enough as a shelter for customers who would simply enjoy meditating. The unexpected details that define the space will awaken the senses of those who seek escape from urban crowds.  

On the way to the era of integration and consilience, the hotel industry also takes various steps to stay ahead of the winds of change. The hotel will put on its own color by introducing a new, integrated identity, rather than simply competing to become a more luxurious hotel, it will emerge as a“ charming hotel”. It will evolve into a hotel that guests enjoy rather than one they view as just a place to stay until they move to their next destination. The finest High 1 Resort Kangwonland Hotel will overcome the negative images of a casino and embrace nature and culture to become a destination resort. To clarify the relationship between the existing Kangwonland Hotel and the new convention hotel, a huge green axis intersecting the hotel was suggested which would be completed by a complex cultural space that would be attractive to people of all ages. 

There is an underground shopping mall in the crowded downtown consisting of various business zones from high-end to practical. To escape the image of the current fragmentary and familiar underpass mall, secure diversified business zones and attract customers, a remodeling of the Gangnam Station Underpass Mall to enhance its business value as a modern shopping mall was suggested. The design was focused on creating “streets”to change the mall into the one that can attract customers with various business zones, and the synergy effect of contributing to the public interest while revitalizing the mall would be added by the addition of resting spaces in the street of each business zone. An underpass mall that meets both public interest and commercial viability is suggested by adding meeting places. According to the traffic of each exit of the station, event spaces such as Therapy Hugh and Herb Plaza were planned and the remodeling of the underpass mall will allow it to contain new business zones with more diversified scenes and spaces than the existing business environments.  

The site is located with the Han River to the south, which creates an open space in the city, and the green expanse of the Seoul Forest to the west, a relaxing element for the city. In the city, the new apartment complex creates a new skyline for the district north of the Han River and is close to Galleria Foret and the Daelim E-World apartment complex in Ttukseom, with the Gangbyeon Expressway to the south. The new buildings in this location should be a nature-friendly residential space to bring the flow of the Seoul Forest into the site naturally and become a new icon in the district north of the Han River. The plan started with the concept of a human living house located at the Seoul Forest and Han River. In terms of livability as a house, all of the apartment units face south and have two-way and natural ventilation. And in terms of the location - surrounded by the Han River and Seoul Forest - all units view the scenery of the Han River and embrace actively nature.  

City of Water, Saemangeum. As title ‘Ariul(ari meaning “water” and ul meaning “base”)’ is symbolized, Saemangeum is a newly born city, which takes its origin in life spring water. AQUA WHEEL represents water, city, nature, and human beings as the landmark of water and the city. Put simply, it dreams of landmark, containing Saemangeum. AQUA WHEEL, embracing the best urban landscape and heavenly sea will be a new paradigm.

Program Stone suggests the system to increase ecological-cultural diversity and reconnect the metropolitan ecology. The system for expanding the mutual space of the city-park consists of the system that organizes park and the driving system. A park interacts with a city by being overlapped around the open field with three characteristics; Urban park, Open field, and Virgin Forest and includes the device of Program Stone, promoting relationships in boundaries. Program Stone will widen its range when it is interactively absorbed in a city through the expansion of the system into the program unit. The expansion of range dreams of ideal enabling a city into the park or vise versa.

A clear purpose for the museum is to suggest a simple time capsule, which can incorporate the lamination of the reveal time. It is only the assertion from the present view. By turning this view to the future, we are suggesting a relay that can communicate with the coming future and the past by putting in our vestiges of modern times. Thus, vestiges of past and the present co exist which creates memorial monolith that leaves future mythology.

This age is us called “ DIGITAL AGE”. The pursuit of speed and convenience makes human matrix to operate linking the network. The network is alike many part of the nature, However human want to confine nature within human matrix with the possession of the nature, it has been made object of a link these action of human let both human and nature desolate EUL-SUK island is the result of thenature contivually changing and circulating fot a long time. the designed eco center in this area, the part of the nature, does not appear on the surface. The eco center is acted the factor of the natural system. With roof, unifing the nature and human on the ground. Also visitors whor are using this eco center could directly of undirected meet the EUL-SUK island eco-system with the program and the gap of its roof part. Human acted the part of the nature with not possession but harmony and participation. And the change of passing time keep going wirh the connection of eco matrix. Human must realize not that they are owner of nature but that they are a part of nature. So we suggest eco center as eco matrix.