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SeanSuk Ho

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urban & Architectural Design Kolkata School of Architecture Masterplan La Salle Chicago Cultural Center NHN Chuncheon Training Institute

exhibition & Set Design KNS 2012 Satellite Washington Convention Booth Hamlet

furniture & Product Design Origami Shelf Swagger Brand Men’s Cosmetic Container

urban & Architectural Design

kolkata school of architectureKolkata, India

Water is a very fundamental and central part of life in India. People start their daily activity with bathing as a part of ritual. People utilize the water in numerous ways to meet their needs. Their rhythm of lives is set by the cycle of dry and monsoon seasons. The project was envisioned in the context of potential natural fi ltration system existed and used by the local fi shing villages near the site.

The idea of fi ltration has been translated in three different cate-gories; school curriculum, natural environmental system, and social context.

Filtraion in the school curriculumThe students are considered the initial input into the school, and - fi ltering their knowledge via the curriculum - they learn how to design and build and understand what they are developing. The Design Build studio, which is the keystone of the curriculum, allows students to get hans-on experience before they enter the real world and become true ‘output’ to the society.

Filtration in the natural environmental systemThe local fi shing villiage developed a natural cleansing system which water from a settlement pond goes to a cleansing pond housing aquatic plants that nourish, aerate, and remove chemicals and metals before the water fl ows to a clean pond where they grow fi sh. Adapting this local natural system, developing a similar system that utilizes the wetlands around the site.

settlement pond cleansing pond

public private

3’ rise during monsoon season

clean water pond

Air - The prevailing breeze is towards the Northwest, which allows for cross building ventilation.

Seasonal Flooding - Around the campus and the fi ltration ponds, the built up ground ensures that the buildings are neither infi ltrated by water nor that the ponds are infi ltrated by sewage water. The only part that would be affected by the monsoon fl ooding is the public circulation that passes by the water under the student residents.

The source water from the site, being cleansed through the cleansing pond located on the east side of campus. This natural fi lter system allows people to practice their cleansing rituals on school grounds, especially on the Gats located at the center of the campus.

Water & Air Circulation Diagram

View of Design Build Studio and clean water pond

View of the bridge connection between Advanced Studio Building and Community Center

Faculty Residence BridgeStudent Residence Water Filtration Channel

Filtration in the social environment The school engages with not only with student but also with the com-munity to play a role in changing the city. The campus provides a space for both students and the public to discuss community - wide issues, exchanging information and resources, and developing collbarative projects. Thus, this community center within the campus works as a fi lter for the social environment.

Student residence courtyard

Auditorium Community Center Gallery

North Section

Atrium

La Salle Chicago Cultural CenterChicago, IL

mile grid1/2 mile grid

small performance halllarge performance hall

exhibition spaces

cinema workshop

administration

cafemediathequeshopsocial spaces

meeting rooms

existing streetexisting building

site

large + smallperformance halls

exhibition spaces

cinema

workshop

administration

cafe

mediatheque

shop

meeting rooms

training room

futuredevelopment

existing building

futuredevelopment

Concept sketch & diagrams

Respecting the urban grain of Chicago’s mile & 1/2 mile grid system, the west street side building remains recti-linear as its context buildings, yet hiding its jewelery box behind the curtain that slowly reveals when visitors are dropped off from I-290 highway on the west side of the site.

lasalle trainstation

parking entrance

pedistrian entrance to parking

entrances

outdoor plaza

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groud level circulation

lasalle trainstation

cinemasmall performance hall

large performance hall

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third level: connection of the performance halls and cinema

connection to the train station

The ‘Jewelery Box’ or the East Building holds the 2 larg-est programs which are a large performace hall and a small performance hall.

The rectilinear West Building houses small cinema, me-diatheque, exhbition rooms, shops, cafe/restaurants and offi ces.

The two buildings are connected on the 3rd fl oor with cinema to performance hall, maintaining public visitors’ programmic circulation. The west building is connected with lasalle metra station on the 2nd level, easily ap-proachable for the visitors on foot.

Program & Circulation Diagram

View from lasalle station from north

2nd Floor Planlasalle station connection

3rd Floor Planwest building connection

1st Floor Plan

Section view to the south

Large Performance HallSmall Performance Hall

CinemaMediatheque

Exhbition RoomWorkshop

Offi cesRestaurant

ShopCafe

Chuncheon, Korea

As an intern architectural designer at a contractor working on theproject by Kengo Kuma & Associates’ NHN Chuncheon TrainingInstitute in Korea, my job was to develope detailed construction draw-ings by understanding IPE wood installation process. The areas of the masterplan I dealt with involved roof and exterior deckings, louvers in the walkroad, and the benches around the site in the landscape.

Clipper Detail

nhn chuncheon training institute

Decking Plan Roof section detail

Decking & Roofing Detail

Walk Road bridge decking construction detail

Walkroad Siteplan

Louver connection detail

Louver section detail

Bench detail

Walk Road Louvers & Bench Detail

exhibition & Set Design

Washington D.C.kns satellite 2012 booth (Built)

Proposed Renderings

Art & Design International, Seoul

Concourse(LEVEL C)

Exhibit Halls A, B & C

Final Production

Meeting Space Wall Renderingstion

Convention Ceneter Site Plann

Dowling Theatre, Providencehamlet

Dowling Theatre Plan

Concept Sketches and Floor Plan

furniture & Product design

Personal Workorigami shelf

swagger brand cosmetic containerArt & Design International, Seoul

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