The first studio focuses on "Understanding the World." The world is approached as texts that are to be read. The two texts are: THINGS and BODY.
TEXT 1: THING Through fine observation and analysis of everyday objects, students develop their skills to creatively reinterpret the object and express those reinterpretations. Rather than abstract understandings of the object, students are expected to obtain scientific discoveries and poetic inspirations from the exercise. They will then express their experiences of the object through architectural media such as drawings and models.
TEXT 2: BODY All experiences start from the human body. The human body is the boundary between the ego and the world, the tentacle of experiencing the world, the manifestation of the spirit. This exercise explores the relation between the human body and architectural settings. Students will discover and creatively express the broad spectrum of relation between the two, going beyond mere biological understandings of the human body. They will design a 1.8m cubic space in full-scale, located within the university campus, that interacts both with the site conditions and the human body.

If Architectural Design Studio 1_1 was an architectural experiment of reading the text of the world, this studio is an exploration of the city, the scene of our daily lives, and creation of meaningful places within the city. While the theme "Understanding the World" is maintained, students will move on to the more concrete time and spaces of our lives. They will analyze two areas of Seoul, proposing small-scale spaces where the city and architecture encounter each other. The urban context of the sites, the users' various events are to be considered. Apart from the architectural proposals, students are asked to dpcument their visits and analysis of the sites. The first proaect focuses on responding to the site, while the-second project focuses on, proposing a structurally soumd architectural space, being, run jointly with the lecture course 'Building Structures 1.'

The objective of this course is to help students to learn the process of design by encouraging them to get familiarized with the basic architectural concepts. Students are asked to carefully analyze the given context and the site, which are important part of design considerations, in the process of establishing architectural concepts that would reflect architect's aesthetic vision. Emphasis will be given on having students engaged in total design process in which students would learn to address such issues as site planning, program analysis and building design. Here, students design a guest house for Villa Shodan by Le Corbusier, and residence for two artists in the Samcheong-dong area in Seoul. Through these projects, they are expected to respond to the existing building as a part of the site, different clients in the artists', and the locality of the places.

The objective of this course is to emphasize the importance of the technical aspect of architectural design by having students pay attention to building materials and structural systems. Students will have opportunities not only to examine the potential design possibilities of various structural systems but also to develop tectonic awareness of building materials.

The 3rd year design studio focuses on moving on from single-use buildings to multiple-use buildings. Therefore, a repetitive 30 x 30m column-and-beam structure is introduced, with building programs for various users. Students will practice this concept through the design of a library, a synthesis of a public hall, book storage, and logistics. As a public building, the understanding of concepts such as 'barrier-free design' and 'universal access' is also very important. For the first month, studios are run jointly, focusing on spatial design, which are individually developed over the next three months.

In this design studio, students practice the design of spaces for specialized uses. In doing so, they will work on performing theaters where a complex building structure is introduced having multiple layers of circulations: the audience, the actors, and the staff. Furthermore, site planning and form planning in response to the building clusters and urban context are explored. While the main focus is to understand the spatial program of a specialized use building,the concepts and implementations of 'barrier-free design,'universal access,' and 'fire safety' are also explored.

Resuscitating a Dying Island / Korea is a peninsula surrounded by many small islands. These islands for centuries have survived on fishing and other local trades, yet following Korea's rapid modernization, the communities that populate these islands have been slowly declining, to the extent that today there is a risk that they will become uninhabitea, marginalized and ultimately forgotten. This semester's project will be to revive one of these islands, specifically the island of Anjwa off the south western coast of Korea. The studio takes a radical approach to the theme of re-modeling and r.e-use, rather than focusing on a single building or city block we will remodel an entire island.

Verticality / The studio started by looking at the notion of verticality, inspired by Oswald Mathias Ungers book: Morphologie: City Metaphors, and we embarked on producing our own account of Vertical living. Students working in groups were asked to explore concepts, images and references that expanded on the idea. Site The Yongsang Rail Depot site is huge vacant site in the heart of the city. It's a site that originally fell outside Seoul's city walls and is strategically connected to three important infrastructural nodes: the Rail link, the US military base and the Han river. All three elements will undergo major changes in the future, lead by the US army vacating their original spot to make way to one of the biggest public parks in the world. At the centre of the site today lies the huge I-Mall, which is both a mall and a major transport interchange, with subway, national and regional rail connections, as well as offering a comprehensive commercial and entertainment experience.

The graduatioon exhibition is a task to develop students' architectural thoughts in their own way and to realize the thoughts specifically in actual conditions. Students analyze modern cities and investigate how those cities affect to architectural spaces and shapes through what channel in our daily life. Furthermore, students embody their consideration for human flow, physical context and natural environment attending sites as the tip of the city. Students should develop their ability to analyze logically the program set up by themselves. That is the way to find their values that should be kept up as a professional architecture. The graduation exhibition reflects basic engineering conditions - structures, facilities and so on - as well as basic components of architectural design.

The students will perform practical design process via the whole program of this studio. Starting with working out a scheme, the students will go through design development, building system and details step by step. Experiencing all this steps, the students will acquire how to deal with the architectural concept and process of design, Performing total process of planning, the students will complete the architectural project achieving the aim of each steps.

The Architectural Engineering Studio is the class to promote the understanding and creative thinking of students for the knowledge on the Architectural Engineering. It presents various topics in three main parts: Structure, Environment and Management. In 2012, students were especially trained to reconstruct the idea about the Architectural Engineering with a variety of theme, for instance, Material management, Disaster prevention, Parking system and Re-modeling. These experiences will give chance to the creative thought and innovative method. These efforts will encourage the development of architecture engineering and relavant industry. In the Construction Technology, students show the works related in the various fields including Logistic system, Fire precaution system, Home Parking System, Architecture in Nature, As for the Environmental engineering, students can proceed the research with the environment-friendly methodology. In Structure field, students share the idea about the advanced concept with the Floating structure, Hotel over bridge.

For the architect, the material is not considered as the element of architecture; the material is architecture itself. So, the material has not to be decided at the last process, but handled at the beginning with site and program. Through this course, it would be studied that character of material and its usage, architectural detail that material needs, researching of new materiality. Understand the nature of material and usage of it. To aware of it, explore architectural details related to the material. Consider the relationship between architectural space in real scale and the materials. At the same time, research on physical make-up as new stood on the consideration about an essence and concepts of material. By making an object with specific materials like wood, glass, metal etc. experiment unique interpretation and creative presentation. Search the case how architecture is embodied, by understanding material, and learn the prospect and general understanding.

As a performance stage for human activity that accumulates and retracts in repetitive motion, the essence of the city, both in its physical and metaphysical sense, receives a great deal of influence from the deeds of the city dwellers. One of the essential elements that makes the city a city is in the intrinsic strategic value carried by the use and location of the boundary between nature and city. From the moment nature inside of a city becomes an important topic of architectural discourse, the goal of the studio is to guide the student toward a proposal that maximizes on the potentiality afforded by a sensible union between the greenery and the existing city conditions.