3. Modus Vivendi ..........................................................3
Thesis | Paju, Korea | Spring-Fall 2011
Pocket-Port .............................................................13
Comprehensive Design Studio | Brooklyn, NY | Spring 2010
Plaza COAHSI .........................................................19
NYC Studio | Staten Island, NY | Summer 2010
In collaboration with Ilka Lin
Clients: COAHSI Center for the Council of Arts
and Humanities of Staten Island Artists
Projected [id]eas ....................................................23
Studio | Syracuse, NY | Fall 2009
Jordan Embassy .....................................................27
Studio | NY, NY | Spring 2008
Florence Travel Sketches .......................................29
Personal Work | Florence, Italy | Fall 2010
Gugal Station Competiton .......................................35
Office Work | Seoul, Korea | Summer 2011
Siaplan Architects & Planners
Selected Works
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sunchung christine min
bachelor of architecture thesis | syracuse university | 2011
randall korman advisor
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5. modus vivendi
an ecological intervention in the future korean dmz
The thesis project is a prototype demonstration for developing the DMZ with ecological
interest. The prototype is an ideal facility for functional and leisurely use of current residents and
future users . The purpose for proposing an ecological intervention is not to reiterate the political
militarized lines, but to preserve and strengthen the current populations’ existence and habitat. During
my research I investigated different types of interest groups and people who are involved with the DMZ
and CCZ’s natural habitat. People like farmers and artists have dedicated their career and life towards
the evolvement of these lands after the demarcation of Post-Korean War . I considered their efforts as
a network of social activities along the border. Strengthening this network by zoning the CCZ border as
a cultural district will benefit each individual group or resident through their role within the network.
This thesis is a proposal for progressive architecture that combines environmental
and cultural aspects as a way to promote sustainable design. The project promotes an ecological
lifestyle and physical setting that is both appropriate for the context of the environment—in the sense
of physical site, climate, social culture and economies—and is appealing to a wide audience.The
motivation for the thesis is to demonstrate that cultural excitement can be created by a responsible
ecological design, which balances environmental sustainability and a concern for people in the region.
Rezoning the CCZ from a war zone to a habitable greenbelt will redefine land as a viable regional and
cultural identity.
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The buffer zone near the South Korean and North Korean demilitarized border is currently evolving into an ecological phenomenon. Since the Korean War, the land
was preserved from urban development and has evovled into a natural wildlife and pollution-free agricultural and production zone. I am interested in how the Demilitarized Zone
(DMZ) and Civilian Control Zone (CCZ) have evolved despite their political limitations. The series of diagrams below illustratrate the evolution of the DMZ and the impacts it imposes
on its current residents, workers, students, and the wildlife. I am concerned that urban encroachment will swallow the existing ecological strip and transform it into a new urban
center. I hope that the strengthened network can deflect deveopments that can drastically alter the natural landscape of the CCZ . I intend for a prototype of interventions that is both
ecologically and socioeconomically mindful of the current CCZ and DMZ. While it addresses the need for preservation , it will also attract outsiders to visit and participate in shaping
the preservation of the land as a last remaining natural landscape absent of human touch. Furthermore, I believe that by prioritizing the preservation of the landscape, South Korea
and North Korea have a balanced opportunity to build relationships beyond their political differences. Respecting nature and building stewardship for wildlife can be the base for both
national cultures to grow towards a cooperative future after unification.
I have selected Dorasan Complex--Train Station and Peace Park as the first site for ecological demonstration and intervention because it has the potential to act
as a main gateway at the CCZ border. I view this thesis as a prototype for facilitating an initial exchange of trade and knowledge between outside visitors and local farmers for both
countries. The project is intended to educate and celebrate the effectiveness and economic viability of ecological building practices. The intervention supports local production by
bringing outside visitors to the CCZ , so that resident farmers can display their sustainably produced products and methods that are important in preserving CCZ’s history and ecology
of the environment. The railway will help transport visitors in South Korea without traveling by car, but also establish a route in which the knowledge of preserving the CCZ can travel
between South Korea and North Korea, when the railway becomes publicly accessible after unification. Secondly, my project shows how existing infrastructure has the potential to be
reused and redeveloped with ecologically conscientious purpose, when the two Koreas are united.
The proposed Centre at Dorasan features exhibition spaces, galleries, informal market spaces, formal seminar rooms, accommodations, a spa, facilities for
testing and research, and an interactive restaurant with characteristics of BYOF (bring your own food) or (PYOI pick your own ingredients). The project will simultaneously embody
sustainable strategies through building material choices, site organization, structural design, building and site performance such as, natural ventilation, reduced energy consumption,
and on-site purification and waste disposal. The thesis promotes socioeconomic engagement and respect for the cultural context of the site’s conditions. At the same time, it strives
to sustainably interact with the existing natural environment.
thesis abstract
Above: Diagrams describing Dorasan of Paju City, South Korea as the primary site for ecological intervention
Right: Site Plan drawing, drawn using autocad, illustrator, photoshop
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INTERSECTION BETWEEN CCZ AND TRAIL
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social context potential eco-interventions
5. dorasan’s location + context 5. dorasan: railway station + eco-community
prototype center for exchange
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LEVEL 2
1. PERMANENT COLLECTION GALLERY
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3. LOUNGE/ STUDY
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Previous page, clockwise from top right corner:
-(2) Plans of Level 2 bay unit subdivided at hotel suite and conference,
drawn in autocad and illustrator. (orange represents the floor surface pattern
for balcony bridge, and hallways)
-Level 2 masterplan
-Level 1 masterplan
(brown represents the dock and deck floor surface; orange solid color
represents the private and enclosed spaces; orange hatch represents the
wooden shades of the ginseng gardens)
This page, clockwise from top riht:
- sketch model showing the division and axis of the complex
- digitial rendering of entry gate from the south bridge, modeled with autocad
and rhino and rendered with cinema4d and photoshop
-diagrams of design process, hand drawn using ink and watercolor
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Clockwise from top left corner:
- Digital rendering of hotel atrium from second level, modeled with autocad and rhino, and rendered with
cinama 4d and photoshop
- Digital rendering of loggia from first level of the gallery (autocad, rhino, cinema4d, and photoshop)
- Series of light study of roof lattice system during design phase
- Diagrams of cross section, ink and watercolor
- Series of examples of the lattice roof as a flexible space for various range of programs such as market,
gallery, memorial, and storage.
Center images:
- Transverse-section a-a is a cut gallery’s loggia and exhibition spaces on two levels.
- Transverse section b-b is a section of the retail shops, atrium, restauraunt, conference rooms, and hotel
suites.
- Master section illustrates the complex’s relationship with the water and ginseng garden. The path to the
gardens is a downhill slope and the markets are eight feet lower than the hotel grade level.
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12. Clockwise from top left corner:
- Diagram of a bay portion of the southern facade
- Composite exploded sections of the roof components and materials.
- Elevation-section of southwestern facade. The section is cut at the main gate
and entries to the hotel and gallery.
The facade survace is comprised of material layering of horizontal and vertical
wooden louvers, sliding wooden doors, balconies, and translucent glass.
- Exploded axon model of a bay segment and single bay unit axon, modeled
with autocad, rhino and rendered with cinemas4d, photoshop and illustrator
-Roof and side view of model that represents the prototype bay unit, 3d print
model 1/8” = 1’-0”
The prototype unit can be modified for future interventions at different sites,
program, and building type.
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wooden frame
wooden steel beam
steel frame
steel frame
wooden cover
wooden steel column
bolts
glass panels
steel mullions
skylight frame
lattice
roof cover
beams
columns
pavilion
PROTOTYPE UNIT STRUCTURE
This prototype structure is a module that can be reconfigured in differ-
ent ways. The project displays three different methods--the hotel, gal-
lery, and the market all use the same structural principal but organized
differently from each other. The hotel is configured as double row bay
with a center atrium. The gallery is a singl row bay building with one-
sided exterior loggia. The market a free-plan space without a pavilion.
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15. CABLE SUSPENDED ROOF SYSTEM
W14X10 X 82LB/FT CABLE SUPPORT COLUMN
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SPACE FRAME SUPPORT SLANTED GLASS WINDOWS AT UPPER LEVEL
13‘-5” ROOF OVERHANG
REFLECTOR ROOF COVERING AT NORTHERN SOUTH FACING WALL
DRAINAGE PIPES AND WATERPROOFING AT COLUMN CONNECTION
W8X8 X 40LB/FT FLOOR COLUMN
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pocket park
Manhatten and its neighboring bouroughs have multiple means of transportation--
there are three airports and numerous heliports in the greater NYC area. However, most residents
must travel an extra 10 miles on average to travel to the airport from the city. The city is not directly
connected to these airports and creating an easily accessible and efficient airport can be beneficial for
more frequent air travel in the future.
The design challenge was creating a 155,000 sqft airport in the existing site of the
Brooklyn Navy Yards for a hypothetical client, Richard Branson, who is seeking a new building for his
new business venture Virgin SolAir, a commercial airline for sports aircraft.
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Top left: Series of views of 1/16”= 1’-0” model on site
Middle: Level 1 plan (solid gray represents the public terminal)
Bottom: Long section
The long section reveals the bay system’s repetitve and how it becomes stretched in the hangar portion of the airport.
Previous layout:
Left page: Sectional axon of the bay and comprehensive analysis of the systems and constructional detail
Right page: Site plan with extensive context of Wallabout Bay, Williamsburg and Brooklyn Bridge, and DUMBO district
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18. Clockwise from top left
- Roof unit module and system
The roof is a double winged and supported by pre-stressed steel columns and tension cables.
- Series of views from digital model built with sketchUp, Vray, and photoshop
From L to R: entry, hangar, sectional perspective, bird’s eye view, aerial
- Transverse section of the building at the public terminal and offices.
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nyc studio | syracuse university | 2010
professor jon lott
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Clockwise from top left of page:
- Sketch of exploded axon of the plaza
- Photographs of sketch model that show the
concept of the design scheme of the plaza
- Diagrams of the plaza as architecture that
invites the public to the site and buidling.
- Exploded axon of the plaza and renovated
building, digital model built with autocad, rhino,
and rendered with vray and photoshop
Next page: Bird’s eye perspective of site plan
+ Diagram of plaza as a connector between
waterfront and street
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21. plaza coahsi
artists center | staten island, ny
client: Melanie Franklin Cohn, Executive Director of COAHSI Center for the Council of Arts and Humanities of Staten Island Artists
plaza coahsi
The Council of Arts and Humanities of Staten Island (COAHSI) are seeking a renovated
space to create a larger facility for their current local artists. The main design challenge for this project
was closely meeting the client’s needs and complying to a regulations regarding renovation and reuse
of the current industrial site on Staten Island waterfront site.
The site is located next to the Staten Island Ferry Station and it is a historic landmark.
The client expressed her needs for their diverse artists and performers who will be actively using
and exhibiting in the space. She desired for artists workshop studios, galleries, performing arts
auditorium, and offices for the Council. COAHSI was granted funds and support from the Rockerfeller
Foundation and were seeking architects to begin their design process.
This project was worked as a team; the complete design and production was
collaborated with Ilka Lin. Visiting critics for the studiowere Craig Dykers from Snohetta and Marc
Tsumaki from LTL Architects.
The design concept was using plaza as architecture that readdresses the entry, invites
the public, functions as an urban connector, and frames views, and invents a new way to display
artists’ production process from the plaza.
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22. Top Left: Series of views from 1/4” = 1’-0” model built with foam core, plexi and strathmore
Above: Rendering from digital model built with autocad, rhino, vray, and photoshop. This
rendering is focusing on the plaza’s function as a lifted extension from the street to the
bayside’s waterfront edge.
Below: Long section of the plaza that reveals the studio and theater below grade. The floor
windows allows for passerbys to still view art from the plaza and encourages the public to
enter the building and engage with local Staten Island artists.
Above: Rendering fron digital model built with autocad, rhino, vray,
photoshop. This is the view from the street entry; there is a natural slow
and the plaza utilizes the natural site conditions as architecture that
funnels the public between the water and the street.
Right images from L to R:
- Interior viewe of the auditorium level below the plaza. Openings and
windows on the plaza surface creates dramatic interior lighting and
windows the plaza level to look inside.
- Sectional perspective view of plaza and artist workshop studios below.
- Preliminary phase collage illustrating the diverse range of artists who
are being represented by COAHSI
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23. plaza coahsi
artists center | staten island, ny
client: Melanie Franklin Cohn, Executive Director of COAHSI Center for the Council of Arts and Humanities of Staten Island Artists
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25. projected [id]eas
museum and informational display
The design challenge was to create a musuem that engages the public at Syracuse’s historical
landmark of Clinton Square. The site’s main facade on the east addresses the square and could serve
as a potential platform for digital informational exchange. The idea to create an interactive digital
screen that individuals can access and use through USB connection from their handheld devices
reestablishes the historical Clinton Square as a technologically advanced communal square.
projected [id]eas
museum and informational display | syracuse, ny
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26. top left: view of digital model, built in sketchup, rendered in vray and photoshop
top right: plan drawings, autocad and illustrator; R to L: ground, first, second, third, fourth floor;
first level is where the digital facade can be accessed for public use; the second level is the gallery, the third level is the auditorium, and fourth level is offices
middle left: 1/32” = 1’-0” cross-section, drawn with autocad and illustrator; The cross-section cuts through the southern glass stairscaircase and auditorium.
middle right: 1’-0” longitudinal section, drawn with autocad and illustrator; The lognitudinal section depicts the the proposed digital screen as botha a display for the public Clinton Square and as
the back wall of the auditorium.
right: two perspective views of digital model built with sketchup and rendered on vray +
two views of 1/8” = 1’-0” model, chipboard and basswood
L to R: Primary structural model, structural model with glass enclosure, aerial view, view from across Clinton Square
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LEVEL4
27. projected [id]eas
museum and informational display | syracuse, ny
LEVEL3
LEVEL2
LEVEL1
BASEMENT
VIEW FROM SOUTH
SECTION B
1’-0”= 1/8”
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28. sunchung christine min
first year studio | syracuse university | 2008
professor marissa tirone
Clockwise from top left corner of the layout
- Series of 1/4” - 1’-0” model built with strathmore
- Folded surface study as a facade. A perforated surface with a steel frame can make the facade appear as sa lantern at night and the slit entries would
glow from the interior.
- Section and elevation of the facade, graphite on strathmore
- Sectional perspective collage of the roof terrace. The roof garden is a continuous ramp that creates a circulatory path. The facade’s slit openings on the
vertical surface is transformed as a floor to ceiling opening
Center images:
Left: Plan drawing of first level of the building
Right: Pland drawing of the roof garden level
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29. jordan embassy
facade and roof terrace renovation | ny, ny
jordan embassy
folded facade
The design challenge was designing a facade and public roof terrace for an existing
buildilng as a renovation for the embassy for Jordan. From my analysis of Jordan, I was influenced
by Petra and its exquisite heavy to light transformation produced by carving. I interpreted Petra
monument as a folded surface that shows both heavy and lightness. While folding creates bulging
geometry that alludes a massive appearence, openings from the folds that creates entrances in the
facade allows for light to enter and reveal the actual thin depth of the facade material.
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30. sunchung christine min
personal work | travel sketches | 2010
peter moore scholarship for hand drawing recipient
santa croce
analytical sketches
These sketches are from a series of urban analysis
of Florence. The duomo is the central monument and
urban focail point that people orient themselves in
the city. The concept was to reillustrate Florence with
stronger emphasis on the duomo as a central piece,
and how it would reveal different urban relationships
and hiearchy. The images are drawin using ink and
graphite. The left image is an arched bird’s eye view.
The image below is a fish-eye of the florence.
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31. duomo as the center
graphite
duomo as the center
analytical sketches
These sketches are from a
series of urban analysis of Florence. The duomo
is the central monument and urban focail
point that people orient themselves in the city.
The concept was to reillustrate Florence with
stronger emphasis on the duomo as a central
piece, and how it would reveal different urban
relationships and hiearchy. The images are
drawin using ink and graphite. The left image is
an arched bird’s eye view. The image below is a
fish-eye of the florence.
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33. florence
graphite
via del servi
analytical sketches
Via del Servi connects Brunelleschi’s
architecture, the Duomo and Ospedale Maggiore, as an urban
corridor that is best realized as a sequence. In these sketches, I
am focusing on the differences between the Duomo and Chiesa
San Anunziata church and the plaza surrounding the church.
In these sketches, I am trying to explore how the public moves
through this corridor and where the boundaries of public and
private space shape the urban corridor.
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34. sunchung christine min
personal work | travel sketches | 2010
peter moore scholarship for hand drawing recipient
san lorenzo
analytical sketches
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36. sunchung christine min
office work | siaplan architects&planners| 2010
gugal train station competition entry, 1st prize winner
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37. gugal station
competition entry| yong-in, korea
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gugal station master plan
siaplan architects & planners
competition entry & 1st prize winning design
Gugal Station in Yong-in, South Korea is a new railway station for Seoul Metropolitan subway system. Yong-in is a
suburban
city on the southern outskirts of Seoul and the urban development for new housing, shopping centers, businesses, and
office complexes have only arised in the last ten years. As the new station is expected open in 2012, developers hosted a
competition for building a complex around the station that give rise to a new urban center. Siaplan’s design concept is an
outdoor complex that has a connecting bridge from second and third level to the plaza at the ground level. The geometry
and form reiterates the topographical features of the site and allows for scenic views of the mountain in the north. I
assisted work during the physical model building and photoshop process.
Clockwise from top left corner:
- bird’s eye view of plaza and office towers
- final entry model images, 1:50 foam and plexi
- digital rendering of complex from the highway, modeled with sketchup, vray, and photoshop
- aerial image of office and residential towers
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40. About
Sunchung Christine Min, B. Arch, is an aspiring architect
and designer. She is a recent graduate of Syracuse
University School of Architecture in December 2011,
and she is eager to start her career. Born in Seoul,
South Korea in 1988, Sunchung moved between the
U.S. and Korea twice before becoming a citizen in 1997.
Sunchung studied music and violin since she was
three-years old and she dreamed of becoming a
professional violinist before becoming an architect.
She chose to become an architect because she
believed that architecture has the influence to reflect
and address cultural context. Sunchung began her
studies in architecture at Syracuse University in 2007,
and received awards throughout her academic career,
such as Citation for Excellence in Thesis Design, Crown
Award, and Peter Moore Scholarship for Hand Drawing.
Her final project, Modus Vivendi, is a thesis project
that proposed a prototype that both preserves and
inhabits the Korean DMZ in the future, without drastic
environmental changes. She hopes to continue exploring
the idea of projects that is built upon cohabitation
of natural environment and urban development.
Sunchung studied abroad in Florence and NYC and has
traveled to Austria, Australia, Belgium, France, Italy, Korea,
Peru, Switzerland and U.K. Sunchung has worked at a Seoul
based architecture and planning firm, SIAPLAN, in which
she contributed towards competition entries for Gugal
Train Station master plan and Sejong City Office Complex.
She has also assisted Francisco Sanin in the 2011 Gwangju
BiennaleExhibition’sfollyandexhibitiondesign.Herhobbies
include painting, photography, violin, yoga, and swimming.
