Elizabethan II House

By hiding all the cables, heating and air-conditioning ducts in a 4ft-high 'crawl' space between the floors of the Elizabethan House and installing revolving walls, the layout can be changed on a daily basis.

Owners have the option of making the ground floor completely open plan or separated into a number of rooms. The house has been designed in an Elizabethan style with the first floor projected over the ground floor ? in this case covering the main entrance and parking space. The black timber battens and white infill render of traditional Elizabethan and Tudor homes have been translated into a steel frame and other materials. The crawl space replaces an attic and provides plenty of storage as well as being an effective sound barrier for the bedrooms.


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Lithic Knot - Jeongok Prehistoric Museum
Movement and experience are the primary generators in this design for a Prehistoric Museum in South Korea by London based architectural firm poly.m.ur.
By: poly.m.ur

Jeongokri is one of the most important Paleolithic sites in the world. Lithic Knot is envisaged as a museum structure that is embedded into both the geology and landscape of the site. The design of the museum focuses on the creation of a building fabric that articulates exhibition spaces while connecting scattered outdoor programs across the entire site. The organization of the museum attempts to dissolve traditional boundaries by creating multiple points of connection around each outdoor program.

The museum thus emerges as a place for the interchange of people, experience and information. The twisted 'figure-of-eight' structure of the museum is intended to evoke the crude 'post and lintel' architecture of the stone age albeit with modern systems of construction and materials.


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Big Dig House Lexington, Mass., 2006
The structural system for this house is almost wholly composed of steel and concrete from Boston’s Big Dig, utilizing more than 600,000 pounds of recycled material, including pieces of the I-93 off-ramps. Large upper-level plantings blur relationships between interior and exterior spaces.



The Big Dig House in particular is an example of Hong and Park’s ability to take risks. They had been given the chance, by a developer willing to try something different, to design the Valentine Houses, a multifamily housing structure in Cambridge. A contractor in charge of destroying the residual materials from the Big Dig’s construction saw the Valentine project and contacted SsD. “He had a junkyard full of concrete and steel and this idea to recycle it into a house,” says Hong. Because Park and Hong’s client was willing to let his home serve as a research project, it was a success. Using over 600,000 pounds of recycled materials, the home has become a prototype for recycling large, heavy materials, and a bit of a curiosity in the area.

Single Speed Design

Four Houses and a Future
outside X-Small, the final piece of Schenk and Kim’s design puzzle, and hopefully their new home. Windows are strategically placed to maximize light and privacy.



Winner of Young Architects Forum, Architectural League of NY 2007

Chaewon Kim and Beat Schenk are partners of the firm UNI, whitch they founded in Cambridge, MA IN 2003. A desig/bulid company, UNI acts simutaneously in the roles of architect, bulder, owner, developer, and broker, seeking innovative design solutions, while addressing economic and zoning pressuress. The firm's most recent project includes four houses - XS, S, M, L - either renovated or newly built on a small lot in Cambridge, MA, that testand explore design solution to housing problems.


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"White Noise/White Light," an interactive sound and light installation created by MIT Professor J. Meejin Yoon for the Athens 2004 Olympics, will be presented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from May 2-8 as part of the weeklong celebration of the inauguration of Susan Hockfield as MIT's 16th president.

Comprised of a 50' x 50' grid of fiber optics and speakers, "White Noise/White Light" is an interactive sound and light field that responds to the movement of people as they walk through it. What appears at first to be a static, neutral and transparent grid of vertical markers dissolves into a luminous sound-scape by night. As pedestrians enter into the fiber optic field their presence and movement are traced by each stalk unit, transmitting white light from LEDs and white noise from speakers below. If motion is detected, the white LED illumination grows brighter while the white noise increases in volume. Once motion is no longer detected, the light and sound fade into dimness and silence. Just as white light is made of the full spectrum of color, white noise contains every frequency within the range of hearing in equal amounts.

My Studio

Touch or wipe a window to see something and express something when we look at moisture window. We wonder beyond window that is hidden by moisture and sometime, we draw or scribble on the window. All this kinds of experiences go into moisture window system. What you touch is what you tell, express and take. After all, we can communicate with our atmosphere by moisture window system. It is a momentary but real. When you meet the moisture window, you feel ‘touch'.




matter workshop : Kim hyung-suk & Kim hong-kiun lead matter workshop to explore from matters to spatial logics in our enviroment. matter workshop is linked to collaborate with Marc dahmen and Lukas haller who are rising a young architect in europe(Koln, Wien)