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Arch Duet is an individual work submitted to the 2010 ENYA International Ideas Competition. Being listed on Jury’s Selection, it was exhibited at the Center for Architecture in New York and published as a book in 2011 Arch of the High Bridge (1848) was a primary structure for lifting an upper plate higher from the waterfront level to carry water and people horizontally between Manhattan and the Bronx. An inverted arch of a new structure (2010) aims to put networked cultural programs inside and connect the waterfront with bridge’s upper level vertically through various routes. Keeping spacing between each other, the two arch structures make consonance based on assonance. Also, connected at several points, the flow of collected rainwater and cultural activities of people keep a continuous loop through the two bodies.
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New West Side Story is a large conglomerate inserted in an historic industrial building, St. Johns, located on the edge of the west side of Manhattan. It consists of two separated vertical towers with different programs. One is a hotel and another is a media company: VIACOM’s headquarter office including studios. By adding two bridges — on the top and bottom, which contains public and shared programs between the hotel and VIACOM — the tower obtains its rectangular donut shape. Having a typological analogy with Pier 40 beyond the highway that had a close relationship with the St. Johns building during city’s industrial periods in the early 1900s, this project makes iconic urban scenery, binding it against urban edges and a waterfront pier area where vivid public developments are underway by the city government. New West Side Story was processed during Cornell’s Integrative Design Studio at AAP NYC. Co-authors: Namsuk Oh, Taewoo Kang.
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M.Arch.1 2012

hk448@cornell.edu

These are tags of cloud particles which float overhead when I browse my experiences at Cornell University in the M.Arch.1 program since 2007:

…Gorges, Sibley Dome, Bell Tower, Rand Hall, Waterfall, Deer, Fine Art Library, Colin Rowe, Collage City, Fred Koetter, Transparency, Mathematics of the ideal villa, Situationist, O. M. Ungers, John Hejduk, Masques, Architectural Uncanny, Vagabond Architecture, Regionalism, Docking, Made in Tokyo, Typology, Poached Egg, Future Urban Scenario, Ping Pong, Slope Day, Berlin, Chiaroscuro, Grammar, Montage, Classification, Manifesto, Bastide, Dali, Sustainability, Lake source Cooling, Delirious New York, Super Block, Capitalism, Fordism, Post-Fordism, Beaux arts, Romantic Reformism, Aldo Rossi, Studio THEM, Free Hand, Coke Bottle, Maya Dynamics, Vernacular Architecture, Critical Regionalism, Mumbai Studio, James Turrell, South Africa, 2010 World Cup, Johannesburg, Game and City, Alexandra, Infrastructure, Media, Google Earth, Hand scripting, Dragon Day, Archigram, Peter Eisenman, Milstein Hall, OMA, Westside Story, Pier 40, St. Johns, Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, Unstable Geography, Camp, San Francisco, Material Systems, Structural Geometry, Catenary, Grasshopper, Palimpsest, Wave Garden, and Tuvalu.

*This was written on a paper on my way home from the office on the Manhattan F line subway on July 5, 2011 from 7:21 p.m. to 8:14 p.m.

**A "cloud" always comes in various forms.