Analysis & Abstraction / Architectural creativity
Imagination & Communication / Spatial imagination
This studio introduces students to a more analytical and derivative design process
through a sequence of two projects: Split House: Plan as a Generator of Form
Deep Space: Embodied Space/Thing & Being

Tectonic creativity / Physical composition:
Mass, Structure, Surface, Materials
Visual Organization / Structured training :
Datum, Order, Grid, Geometry
Understanding of architectural structure forms the basis for all architectural projects. This studio will actively engage theoretical understanding of structural systems from the conception of design projects. A broad survey of major structural systems and their applicability will be followed by individual design exercise for transforming a structural logic into an architectonic concept.

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 the architect’s aesthetic vision. While designing a house, students are to be engaged in a total design process: site planning, program analysis and building design.

Objective 1
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 ossibilities of various structural systems but also to develop tectonic awareness of building materials.
Objective 2
Students will explore the space with the conception of how light, time and movement nteract. 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.
Objective 3
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.

Objective1
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.
Objective2
One of the most iconic public building types, the library has been central to the life of the city in both its elevated and quotidian roles. Both a repository of knowledge and a community meeting ground, it has the potential to both form the city around it and be in formed by its context. Although central public libraries have typically been conceived as iconic public edifices, what is the role of today’s local library, built in areas that have many social and physical contingencies?
At the same with the emergence of digital culture the role of the library is radically changing: multiple modes of information exchange (analog, digital, spoken, etc) are quickly becoming part of the way a library transmits and receives knowledge. In its myriad and sometimes paradoxical status as auto- nomous institution and neighborhood room, the following polarities can become generative program- matic and formal spring-boards: monument/fabric, abstract/figural, elevated/quotidian, local/networked, digital/analog, as well as more general concepts such as: inside/outside, heavy/light, light/dark, individual/collective, publicity/privacy, etc.
Objective3
National Children's Library
The studio looked at the role of play in architecture, within the context of childhood as a social construct. The project for the studio was to propose an alternate vision for the National Children's Library in Sejong City. Through investigation and discussion on the following topics, the studio will look into how architecture may be shaped and programmed through observation of everyday life as manifested in spatial and behavioral patterns: Ludic City, Ritualization of Everyday, Interstitial Aesthetics, and Ephemeral Experiences

Objective1
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.
Objective2
This studio will likewise look at how the intentional distortion of the theater type can create completely new experiences of performance. First, students will analyze several existing seminal theater typologies for their social, performative, and functional characteristics. Each of these precedents will then be used as syntax to create an altogether new design. As in most urban situations however, a site in Seoul will prove difficult to ‘fit’ an idealized theater. The typology will therefore have to be distorted so that it can occupy the site with all the requirements intact. However as in Palladio’s example, the distortion will be willfully thought through by each student so that it does not become a compromise, but actually becomes a benefit. And as multi function and diverse performance types are now becoming more important to theater design, new technological advances, innovative kinds of public space, and programmatic flexibility will be used to create a thesis about the distorted theater. At the end of the semester, an exhibition of large scale ‘helmet models’ (a model where one can fit one’s head into) will be created so that one can experience and photograph the specific spatial conditions of the each student’s design.
Objective3
The Ideal Theater. If a literal, object-based art practice is to be considered as a theatrical genre rather than art, architecture may have closer affinity to theater than visual art. Architecture of theater, moreover, embodies the condition of theatricality within its program, and expands the realm of performance beyond the stage into the city. The paradox of architecture of theater stems from this duality of architecture as urban theater. Architecture pretends to disappear into total darkness in its interior, in which the audience is completely absorbed within the performance, but the physical and spatial proximity between actors and the audience cannot hide the simulated context of theatricality and performativity. The sensation of absorption is merely theatrical as the theater becomes not merely a temporal event but a spatial condition.

For the architect, the material is not an 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 materials 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.

Architectural design studio 4-1 selects asian cities outside korea as project sites to study various issues that are specific to the asia-pacific region. Under the themes of preservation and transformation, students base their urban-scale design projects On the tradition and the cultural milieu of each city, leading to remodeling and renewal proposals within the given sites.

The shared focus of this studio is the creation and recovery of urban communities through introduction of new types of mass housing. The first group approaches the problem by defining the city as a collection of dwellings and designs a new city for 400 inhabitants. The second group mixed different programs --live, work, play, and rest, to form a creative community inside an urban block. The third group is a joint studio in collaboration with U-Penn graduate students and the topics have included urban regeneration of Yongdeunpo and Uljiro, and mixed-use housing blocks in Seoul.

Digital Design Studio aims to transform traditional design methods by implementing digital technologies as a mediator between the real and the virtual. Students are encouraged to anticipate possible complications during subsequent fabrication process beyond the virtual design phase and gain valuable experience of carrying their projects through the entire process from design to construction.

The graduation 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. Going through 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 step.