Despite the growing interest in utilizing industrial robot arms in collaboration with humans for building construction tasks, more studies still need to focus on developing multi-purpose end-effectors. In on-site building work scenarios, tool grasping facilitated by air inflation in soft robot grippers presents an adaptable solution. However, a...
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Flexural Responsive Building Facade using Hybrid Soft Actuator
RESEARCH. Daylight-adaptive Shading System by Pneumatic Elastomer and Shape Memory Alloy Actuator
The geometrical inflexibility of rigid-body kinetic building facades is disadvantageous in free-form architecture. To address this problem, a gearless, lightweight, and geometrically flexible daylight-adaptive shading facade module is proposed by hybridizing gripper-shaped pneumatic elastomer and shape memory alloy(SMA) actuators. This project presents an advanced architectural application of soft...
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The CLOUD Campus, Songdo
STUDIO. Graduation Project, Data Center
Design Concept Since the pandemic began in 2019, the space where people cannot communicate has been filled with intangible data. The data is often considered floating in the CLOUD but is actually stored on a global network of high-energy-consuming Data Centers. This type of building, which...
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Machine-Learned Kinetic Facade
RESEARCH. Design and Construction of AI-enabled Responsive Building Facade
In architecture, kinetic responsive facades (KRFs) are increasingly popular due to their ability to create dynamic building designs and improve energy efficiency and indoor comfort through morphological adaptation. However, despite extensive research and simulations, there are few constructed examples. In this project, we installed a full-scale...
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Office Design, Hyundai Design Research Center
STUDIO. Implementing "Sculpture in Motion" through "Kinetic Facade"
**This project, an undergraduate architectural studio work in 2020, served as a precursor to subsequent research on kinetic facades.
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Blurred Space 3D-printed Pavilion
RESEARCH. Full-scale 3D-printed Public Facility
The design project aims to provide a creative architectural and urban space by blurring the dividing line between building, public space, and technology architecture. The abandoned old bus station on the campus was regenerated into a complex morphological design, inspiring in its new form.
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Sang Sang
STUDIO. IT Convergence Zero-energy Housing
As part of the ‘Paran Semester,’ a group of students in the Architecture Department took on self-directed challenges and constructed a passive house in Moongyeong, South Korea, under the supervision of Professor Lee Kyu-In.
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