“Things and BODY”
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 I : THING
Through fine observation and analysis of every objects, students develop their skills to creatively reinterpret the object and express those reinterpretations. They will then express their experiences of the object through architectural media such as drawings and models.
TEXT 2 : BODY-CUBE
This exercise explores the relation between the human body and architectural settings. 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.
“Understanding of Urban Context”
The Second 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 first project focuses on responding to the site, while the second project focuses on proposing a structurally sound architectural space, being run jointly with the lecture course ‘Building Structures 1’.

Making new community space by placing reciprocal spatial device into existing context. We briefly define “Architect” as a man who creates space to accommodate human lives. Architects elucidate their production in many ways borrowing words like architecture, space, place and etc. Fundamentally, the feeling of vitality is exposed by the existence itself. The easiest way to expose the thing itself is to contrast extremely with others and show differences within numerous conditions.
The studio will explore city and find out the urban space full of potential. Students interpret the site and abstract their findings through representation or reinterpretation with drawing and models first. Then they put reciprocal spatial device into the existing space on the second stage. The existing urban space and new device should work together in inextricable sets contrasting and complementing each other.

The objective of this course is to help students 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 parts of the design considerations, in the process of establishing architectural concepts that would reflect architect’s aesthetic vision. While designing a house, students are to be engaged in total design process: site planning, program analysisand building design.

Object1
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.
Object2
Students will explore the space with the conception of how light, time and movement interact. The technique will be casting, where the positive space has to be inverted. Also students will explore Piranesi’s drawings. Students will design a spiritual retreat which corresponds to the spirit of medieveral monasteries through the findings from the formal research project.
Object3
This course will introduce basic architectural design concepts and encourage students to develop individual working methods to draw specific design solutions in each project. Through a series of research and design projects, students will become familiar with the language of architecture and acquire necessary skills, both technical and theoretical.

Object1
The 3rd year design studio focuses on stepping from single-use buildings to public buildings. Therefore, a repetitive 6mX6m column-and-beam structural grid is introduced within a 30mX30m boundary, a medium scale design project with programs for various users. Students will practice this concept through the design of library, a synthesis of a public hall, book storage, logistics and etc. While the awareness to concepts of ‘barrier-free design’ and ‘universal design’ is emphasized, learning and application of building laws are also being introduced and practiced.
Object2
While the functions are clearly different, space may take on very simillar forms. The categories of each types are differentiated, and in terms of architectural function they belong to distinctive sections. Spaces for communities go beyond personal limits, and exist in diverse forms in our cities. Religion, enterprise, leisure, education… The limitation of communities being unable to meet in ‘housing’ is fulfilled by various facilities. The complex matrix of site, program, technology, code, economics and disaster prevention, that composes architecture should be understood.in constructive perspectives. In 3-1 architectural studio, students learn architectural process through multiple scale and various viewpoints.
Object3 - Architecture for Animality / The Center for Animal Welfare and Education
A challenge for this studio was to expand our understanding of urban communities to include non-human animals as well as humans. The modern city’s obsession with hygiene and sterility was challenged by applying a new filter of animality for assessing the biosynthetic sustainability. To formulate an updated vision of a more organic city, in which humans are but one among many participants in the intricately intertwined spectrum of life, students first created a visual catalogue of popular architectural imageries as re-imagined through an animal gaze, and then designed the new headquarters for KARA, or Korea Animal Rights Advocates, which was founded in 2002 to promote the welfare of animals, and educate the public about ethical treatment of animals. This course will introduce basic architectural design concepts and encourage students to develop individual working methods for arriving at a specific design solution. Through a series of research and design projects, students will become familiar with the language of architecture and acquire necessary skills, both technical and theoretical.

Object1
Developing from the basis of Architectural Design Studio 3-1, the design practice of theatre is being conducted. Through urban form design, the interrelation between urban form and interior spaces is being explored, creating a gathering space for the urban community. Connections and relations between performance stage and seating plane are also being studied. Students will also be introduced to the concept of Maison Dom-Ino by Le Corbusier, barrier-free design and disaster prevention design through the sustematic design practice.
Object2 - Architectural Technology and Building Placeness Tectonics is the unique characteristic of architecture. External discourses can be materialized only through tectonics. Architecture is an outcome of continuous interaction among sites, types, and tectonics; sites and types brought the modern trend throughout various discourses, while tectonics remained as the means of tools. By showing the possibility of expressing various immaterial concepts through tangible techtonics, this studio aims for letting the students become the producers of those concepts. The traditional design process begins with the given site and specific programs, that is external conditions. Architects articulate the form and the space first, and they consider the materials and construction methods afterwards. This studio conducts these two steps vice versa, or at the same time.
Object3 - Encountering Unfamiliar Programs on Public Spaces with Patterning Students propose on innovative form of the multipurpose facility based on three key words; Program, Pattern, Public Space. One site accommodates more than two different programs which have no chance to meet and be combined together in our everyday life. This unfamiliar encounter of different programs allows us do creative gesture toward monotonous living environment through the heterogeneous interaction. Facing “Newness”, contemporary cities, full of dullness, could regain their vitality. Then, the city liberates people from delusion.

For the architect, the material is not considered as the element of architecture; it is architecture itself. Therefore, the material should not be decided at the end of the design process, but should be handled at the beginning with site and program. Through this course, students understand the character and usage of architectural materials. And based on this, they will learn about mateirals and architectural details, and think about relationship between actual architecture space and materials. On the other hand, new materiality will be explored by consideration about concept and essence of materials. By making objects with real materials like wood, glass, concrete, Students experiment materials, materiality of substance, creative expression and original interpretation about a property of matter. Through this understanding of materials, students will get a comprehensive understanding and prospect by cases where the use of new materiality is realized in building projects.

TRANSFORMATION VS PRESERVATION
The notion of Tabula Rasa, for so often the preferred form or urban development in most Asian cities, is rapidly being questioned on the grounds of eradicating the traces of historical development. No country testifies to this eradication of local heritage more than China in the last 30 years with their aggressive economic policies. Our joint Design Studio will be based in Hangzhou, China. Hangzhou, the capitol Zhejiang Province in Eastern China, has a long history of over 2000 years. In recent years it has become the home to the renowned Chinese architect Wang Shu, who in 2012 won the prestigious Pritzker prize with the work that can be characterized by an increased awareness of the local, both in learning from existing typologies and reusing existing materials. Each professor will have their own specific agenda but will be working on the same site in Hangzhou.

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. Going through all this steps, Students will learn how to deal with the architectural concept and process of design. Performing total process of planning, students will complete the architectural project achieving the aim of each step.