https://tktn.works Tommy Kyung Tae Nam Tue, 28 Dec 2021 05:59:16 +0000 https://tktn.works en https://tktn.works/Home-Page Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:24:30 +0000 Tommy Kyung Tae Nam https://tktn.works/Home-Page AboutNewsWorks https://tktn.works/a-typical-Office Fri, 17 Jul 2020 20:40:16 +0000 Tommy Kyung Tae Nam https://tktn.works/a-typical-Office (a)typical Office Design Team | Yun YunAdvisor | Adam FureProject Year | 2016 + taubman college thesis exhibition, liberty research annex+ mies crown hall americas student prize 2016 - IIT+ burton l. kampner memorial award for best thesis - Taubman College, University of Michigan+ featured in dimensions 30 publication+ thesis advising | robert adams, anca trandafirescu, jen maigret, amy kulpers, claire zimmerman, ellie abrons <img width="3456" height="2304" width_o="3456" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dba754c0067afda281b7df516b0757a4f071504121a6b8abcd577fff9474d736/IMG_2733.jpg" data-mid="77667639" border="0" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d1b6ce38a1b0509cfc9c951d736de131f82da830ad4d9f779ef5de6b00808aa2/Section-04_o.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="5000" width_o="5000" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0eff9e0eabe46874208ad174cb1f400ee8a881d97257c191516ac7a44382cb2/Section-02_o.jpg" data-mid="77667645" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0eff9e0eabe46874208ad174cb1f400ee8a881d97257c191516ac7a44382cb2/Section-02_o.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="5000" width_o="5000" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8644c3b743322b93ad42d99d57db50c021afe70d36f85b67112180f4248a6b38/Section-03_o.jpg" data-mid="77667653" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8644c3b743322b93ad42d99d57db50c021afe70d36f85b67112180f4248a6b38/Section-03_o.jpg" /> In the first half of the 20th century, the inventions of air-conditioning and the elevator allowed American office buildings to adopt an open floor plan. In his essay “Typical Plan” Rem Koolhaas identifies this openness as a virtue for it affords near infinite programmatic flexibility. Buildings reduced to “skin and bones” impose no restrictions on use – blankness equals flexibility. In his essay, Koolhaas states, “Typical Plan implies repetition – it is the nth plan: to be typical, there must be many – and indeterminacy: to be typical, it must be sufficiently undefined. It presumes the presence of many others, but at the same time suggests that their exact number is of no importance.” This thesis explores the counter-intuitive reversal of this formula through articulated form that remains programmatically flexible and ambiguous. ‘(a)typical office’ replaces the generic, gridded, stripped-down, empty office interior, with a collection of machine-like objects with conspicuous identities. The building’s overall form results from a stack of large objects that holds objects within, all wrapped in a generic mirrored glass façade. The objects surfaces are embossed, extruded, and tapered, taking on a machine aesthetic, but not mapping to any specific function. Operating across a wide spectrum of scales, from small vents and pipes to large rooms and atria, ‘(a)typical office’ explores a diversity of volumes and the powers of scale. The famous modernist axiom “Form Follows Function” was in many ways a Trojan horse. It is most commonly understood as a cultural critique of practices of excess, but it was also a rhetorical device that eased the passage of an entirely new formal aesthetic into the world, one that reached vast cultural, economic, and geographic spheres, and changed the course of history. In this way, modernist form never really followed anything; it led the way, as avant-garde practices have attempted throughout history. The sentiment of this phrase, however, that architecture follows or serves some other, greater thing, continues to complicate contemporary discussions of architectural form making. Today, architects seem caught between two imperfect poles arguing for the value of formal autonomy, or formal propositions from exhaustive studies of mapping. This thesis works to establish a new type of formal discussion by asking not what form is (autonomy) or where it comes from (context), but what it can do. That is, how can form function? Formal studies raise attention to aesthetic and spatial qualities of figuration, scale, and composition. We shifted our focus away from what form is in spatial and aesthetic terms to what it can do by considering its possible effects. Thus, form does not stall out in the realm of representation, concept, or pure aesthetics, but is projected out into the world in an attempt to chart new cultural and political agency for architecture. The building is sited between the City of Commerce and the City of Industry in Los Angeles, California. The latter is unique in that is houses 2,500 businesses and 80,000 jobs, but has only 300 residents. This produces an extreme circadian rhythm where in the daytime the city bustles with capitalist activity, but at night it’s a ghost town. During the day, the office functions like a typical corporate office building. A spatial framework becomes the mechanical and circulation space that allows for components and elements to be arranged. The array of components create interstitial volumes, and the components themselves occupy a misfit of interiority, suggesting that the building maintains an ambiguous read from the outside to inside, from exterior envelope to interior walls. Inside the machine-like objects, the inner walls carry on a fluid –like and free-form character, creating a typical volumes and spaces for workers to inhabit. The thesis presents two conditions: the total working office, and the typicality of the corporate office. Can highly specific forms maintain an ambiguity of function? ‘(a)typical office’ reflects this cycle, but in reverse; in daylight it’s a generic reflective box much like other typical buildings while at night it is a luminous container of oddly-scaled objects. Challenging conventional notions of interiority and architectural character. Historically, character was the quality of exteriority where ornament and articulation were visible to a wider audience. ‘(a)typical office’ enfolds its character, keeping it on its inside during the day and projecting outward at night once workers have evacuated the premise. The industrialization of the City of Commerce engenders the homogenized interiority, typical buildings become a shield for the unknown; ‘(a)typical office’ breaks the regularity and uniformity by performing the spatial and aesthetic diversities. Through its mirrored glass façade ‘(a)typical office’ reflects upon the image of the city while concealing its own secrets of interiority. https://tktn.works/The-Dialogue-between-Drawing-Machines-Human-Ambience Sat, 18 Jul 2020 22:21:51 +0000 Tommy Kyung Tae Nam https://tktn.works/The-Dialogue-between-Drawing-Machines-Human-Ambience The Dialogue between Drawing Machines &amp; Human Ambience Design Team | Xu Zhang + Hyun Seong Min + Siwei Ren + Brandon KangExhibition Year | 2015 + Taubman College ASRG Winner 2015 RGB Gallery+ featured in Dimensions 29 publication+ Video Courtesy of Robby Kim <img width="3065" height="1292" width_o="3065" height_o="1292" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b287a48016fe6896e48ce4c5994b1f144d9896c055a5332f3968bdf244c023e6/IMG_2149_2.jpg" data-mid="78411291" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b287a48016fe6896e48ce4c5994b1f144d9896c055a5332f3968bdf244c023e6/IMG_2149_2.jpg" /> <img width="3456" height="2304" width_o="3456" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e57795e2e1e8bd7fd7902e96d750ddd59b14c2433d24913c8eda5c2ff409d79/IMG_2124.jpg" data-mid="77862475" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e57795e2e1e8bd7fd7902e96d750ddd59b14c2433d24913c8eda5c2ff409d79/IMG_2124.jpg" /> <img width="2293" height="2869" width_o="2293" height_o="2869" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e76e7e610e41238010abaee462b31238c43b6354de7db60a6d672eea0eccaf6d/Close-Up-01.jpg" data-mid="78412733" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e76e7e610e41238010abaee462b31238c43b6354de7db60a6d672eea0eccaf6d/Close-Up-01.jpg" /> <img width="2293" height="2869" width_o="2293" height_o="2869" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34d0b1a9e10751ca31d32b2932921d8c7f0c254a25f0c1e777cf726ab7cebf9a/Close-Up-02.jpg" data-mid="78412734" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34d0b1a9e10751ca31d32b2932921d8c7f0c254a25f0c1e777cf726ab7cebf9a/Close-Up-02.jpg" /> <img width="2982" height="1988" width_o="2982" height_o="1988" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc542af00919ae4d469e079cf4cb2b3e07652a416f0b899482ffee8a53005138/IMG_2110.jpg" data-mid="77862474" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc542af00919ae4d469e079cf4cb2b3e07652a416f0b899482ffee8a53005138/IMG_2110.jpg" /> <img width="2889" height="1926" width_o="2889" height_o="1926" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e2578a83e2877e172f2136d7486d03c41f7bc220bfb545fd6a0524f0e8a78e0/IMG_2102.jpg" data-mid="77862476" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e2578a83e2877e172f2136d7486d03c41f7bc220bfb545fd6a0524f0e8a78e0/IMG_2102.jpg" /> The Dialogue between Drawing Machines + Human Ambience explores the dichotomy and synthesis of the interaction between programmed movement and human interaction through automated and sensory technology. The research focuses on the development of machines that generate drawings collecting the surrounding information of the place and time. Using sensors such as light, vibration, sound, and object sensors, the machines react and alter its path and form of motion based on the contextual ambience. This collection of information about a specific place is translated into the drawing, hence making this drawing device an artifact that stores the memory of that place. Although the machine is scripted and programmed in such a way to have a base path, a default, the human interaction and context allows the drawing to accumulate with ink which starts to dissolve a perfect drawing and celebrates the amorphousness of the drawing, in other words, sloppy precision. The next steps of the research after the exhibition is to decode the drawings by studying the motion, density, forms of what the machines have produced based on different spaces in time. As much as this project is about the exploration of the dichotomy of machine and man, it goes beyond that simple idea and hopes to flirt with the concepts of recording space, drawing that space, and decoding the drawing of the space. https://tktn.works/X-ray-House Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:44:33 +0000 Tommy Kyung Tae Nam https://tktn.works/X-ray-House X-ray HouseThe Home Competition - Arch Out LoudDesign Team | Eujean Cheong + Juyong ParkProject Year | 2019 + Director's Choice Award <img width="4000" height="4000" width_o="4000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61763fb14d8228ff35720770f11326e7e265d301328e2206e39032f80600cadc/EXT-VIEW-3.jpg" data-mid="78418979" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61763fb14d8228ff35720770f11326e7e265d301328e2206e39032f80600cadc/EXT-VIEW-3.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="4000" width_o="4000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9162bfb77ba4f3dd5ab4c1105de9e6232c3ff93bbec9eaed32a20da005a846c1/INT-VIEW-4.jpg" data-mid="78418981" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9162bfb77ba4f3dd5ab4c1105de9e6232c3ff93bbec9eaed32a20da005a846c1/INT-VIEW-4.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2000" width_o="4000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9680fbea4c05b779d1fd9b17cfc181d857a27312ff58d1b9b9a67c498af283a1/INT-VIEW-7-FINAL-UPDATE.jpg" data-mid="98728039" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9680fbea4c05b779d1fd9b17cfc181d857a27312ff58d1b9b9a67c498af283a1/INT-VIEW-7-FINAL-UPDATE.jpg" /> Buildings that were built by stone and mortar, defined strength, solidity, and longevity. The allure of brick and masonry construction once represented wealth, soon got out-shadowed by newer materials which were by-products of the current industrial technologies. The Crystal Palace designed for the Great Exhibition of 1851, not only housed the latest inventions and apparatuses, but the structure embodied a new type of transparent rhetoric of lightness and beauty made of cast-iron and sheet glass. The Palace was one of the first attempts of many buildings of the international style to pursue the “glass-box”. The Glass House in 1949, The Farnsworth House in 1951, and the Lever House, in 1952 displayed modernist ideals of transparency, minimalism, and functionalism. However, this notion of transparencies contain contradictions and limitations when it comes with privacy and serviceability. The core of a building will always remain opaque. The X-Ray House attempts to make the building truly transparent by stripping away solid brick and drywall from the facade and demise that commonly separate the program of the villa. The exterior walls are defined by ultra-transparent glass blocks similar to the scale of a Concrete Masonry Unit, mimicking the scale of solidity, while celebrating connection with the landscape. The internal partitions are encased by translucent glass tiles containing typical and underwhelming systems such as studs, pipes, and cords. Elemental components that are unnoticed traditionally, are now being showcased, allowing the home to perform and permeate light throughout the space. The X-Ray House acknowledges the mechanisms of the machine for living by projecting the internal organs and pipes that allow the home to function. <img width="12600" height="12600" width_o="12600" height_o="12600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/05b4636fddc28750c1c727fab68fe854b8617a784d824179dfb0db594b144046/Xray_Plan_Raster_2.jpg" data-mid="78418832" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/05b4636fddc28750c1c727fab68fe854b8617a784d824179dfb0db594b144046/Xray_Plan_Raster_2.jpg" /> <img width="7074" height="7074" width_o="7074" height_o="7074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c4d487c6be2612cbec24b611f40ee01afffc46a9afd68c5d0c917bb2eed6015/Xray_Axon_Darker_Fixed.jpg" data-mid="120584010" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c4d487c6be2612cbec24b611f40ee01afffc46a9afd68c5d0c917bb2eed6015/Xray_Axon_Darker_Fixed.jpg" /> https://tktn.works/Breathing-House Fri, 11 Dec 2020 03:48:47 +0000 Tommy Kyung Tae Nam https://tktn.works/Breathing-House Breathing HouseThe Microhome Competition 2020Design Team | Eujean Cheong + Honorable Mention Award <img width="4000" height="2500" width_o="4000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9cb540ea809969fd9826ad75bd50c7d83eb2a2b38a18be0e9623104b1aacb78/Exterior-Rendering.jpg" data-mid="98725493" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9cb540ea809969fd9826ad75bd50c7d83eb2a2b38a18be0e9623104b1aacb78/Exterior-Rendering.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2500" width_o="4000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e370d9343e6a5023133255f954098639d010e7427fc60f9ea95f5456f9b1aba5/V4.jpg" data-mid="91775754" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e370d9343e6a5023133255f954098639d010e7427fc60f9ea95f5456f9b1aba5/V4.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2500" width_o="4000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc2d54d2e73fdb461b2c4f7cc85b6976479f90dc810fe56354b7b525b4c2a8f8/V6.jpg" data-mid="91775756" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc2d54d2e73fdb461b2c4f7cc85b6976479f90dc810fe56354b7b525b4c2a8f8/V6.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2500" width_o="4000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ef5b4ad37736c8766cec32017963a3be99985f0121813c84f3f14194d7c6a2f/V8_FINAL.jpg" data-mid="91775760" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ef5b4ad37736c8766cec32017963a3be99985f0121813c84f3f14194d7c6a2f/V8_FINAL.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2500" width_o="4000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab487fe9e37d0f2187e9970faa2addc0bb5012477ea55fc7f7d17b06cde18171/V7-FINAL.jpg" data-mid="91775758" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab487fe9e37d0f2187e9970faa2addc0bb5012477ea55fc7f7d17b06cde18171/V7-FINAL.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2500" width_o="4000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35bfc84bc1f037414f7f32f0325da90e306e246f1b342f40494ee0faea2309c0/AXON-OPEN.jpg" data-mid="91775999" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35bfc84bc1f037414f7f32f0325da90e306e246f1b342f40494ee0faea2309c0/AXON-OPEN.jpg" /> Despite the dramatic progress to date, air pollution and air hygiene continues to threaten our health and welfare. As the production and maintenance of buildings contribute to a large portion of carbon emissions, designing a microhome is an environmentally conscious solution which can help reduce the carbon footprint. Breathing House is a proposal that reimagines the modern home by optimizing the communal program and conceptualizing an innovative facade. The canonical “glass-box” villa displayed modernist ideals of transparency, minimalism, and functionalism. However many of these homes contain contradictions and limitations when it comes to privacy and serviceability. The kitchen and bathroom, commonly found in the center of the villa, have been repositioned out to the facade which opens up the center living space while providing privacy on two sides. Rather than retrofitting drapery, the Breathing House integrates shaders within the facade. The double skin glass tube system with filtration fins helps control glare and bring diffused daylight into the living space. These fins are perforated and rotatable, purifying external air before bringing in clean air. Containing three layers of filters (Pre-Filter, Activated Carbon filter, and HEPA filter), the fin captures a diversity of foreign particles such as dust, pollen, carbon emissions, Volatile Organic Compounds, odor, bacteria, mold and viruses from entering indoors. Contrary to an absolute hermetic building, Breathing House creates a semi-permeable membrane that is able to bring in and exhaust out air when needed. The fluted facade and soft corners gently reflects and refracts the context while maximizing view. The Breathing House is a prototype that can be deployed in both the rural and urban setting in hopes to bring a more breathable environment inside and out. <img width="4000" height="2500" width_o="4000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f9cd7f8616f678e802e344ecf7900c36b64fbc76dfaf8789983bf18e2aa75bf/Detail.jpg" data-mid="98725492" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f9cd7f8616f678e802e344ecf7900c36b64fbc76dfaf8789983bf18e2aa75bf/Detail.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2500" width_o="4000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/370615e92f289cb7b64df9b04e520683269d72a1795d9e308f1c40b4ab029d5e/Section.jpg" data-mid="98725495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/370615e92f289cb7b64df9b04e520683269d72a1795d9e308f1c40b4ab029d5e/Section.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2500" width_o="4000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc0e30f066acbb6493dad1185357544a5ed51d5557c4f6d481e1e31a33f4f27a/Plans.jpg" data-mid="98725494" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc0e30f066acbb6493dad1185357544a5ed51d5557c4f6d481e1e31a33f4f27a/Plans.jpg" /> https://tktn.works/The-Standard-House Fri, 03 Sep 2021 03:08:04 +0000 Tommy Kyung Tae Nam https://tktn.works/The-Standard-House The Standard HouseShortlisted Finalist The Modular Home Competition 2021Design Team | Soohyuk Choi, Heejin Cho &amp; Jongbang Park <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2efef8763796c95320ec3334ef644f934d2803000e7e1e9b8ebf5eb55e8d50a3/N-01-EDITTED.jpg" data-mid="117981721" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2efef8763796c95320ec3334ef644f934d2803000e7e1e9b8ebf5eb55e8d50a3/N-01-EDITTED.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="3000" width_o="3000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/286be85403b4013810502dcbec118e1440e7ba4560c756773c1a28a4ea357a67/N-04-EDITTED.jpg" data-mid="117981722" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/286be85403b4013810502dcbec118e1440e7ba4560c756773c1a28a4ea357a67/N-04-EDITTED.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="3000" width_o="3000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f3b1107a7970235a2dff44b68487a6738105867de88e4d00f5fcb976f778340/INT-03-EDITTED.jpg" data-mid="117981719" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f3b1107a7970235a2dff44b68487a6738105867de88e4d00f5fcb976f778340/INT-03-EDITTED.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="6000" width_o="6000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3148a24debc4f1f126bbf8ccf34fdde97d46a383d02b91fbaf609af87bdfd6be/EXT-02-NIGHT-NEW-HQ-EDITTED-FINAL.jpg" data-mid="117981714" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3148a24debc4f1f126bbf8ccf34fdde97d46a383d02b91fbaf609af87bdfd6be/EXT-02-NIGHT-NEW-HQ-EDITTED-FINAL.jpg" /> <img width="2140" height="2508" width_o="2140" height_o="2508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61c342aa073226460d5a2abc64ffc9ed430b0643ba20d0bde951d1f2b5de5458/INT-05-VERTICAL-EDITTED.jpg" data-mid="117981720" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61c342aa073226460d5a2abc64ffc9ed430b0643ba20d0bde951d1f2b5de5458/INT-05-VERTICAL-EDITTED.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2001" width_o="3000" height_o="2001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a40c51f6128310fd878b0e27ec28afb8e5f613f331a0f82fe4e854abbdd6601/INT-01-NEW-EDITTED.jpg" data-mid="117981717" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a40c51f6128310fd878b0e27ec28afb8e5f613f331a0f82fe4e854abbdd6601/INT-01-NEW-EDITTED.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dfa39bd45d3a454a6dd276a67868385bcf7b4e4ce0ed6e950219af976adfa809/INT-02-EDITTED.jpg" data-mid="117981718" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dfa39bd45d3a454a6dd276a67868385bcf7b4e4ce0ed6e950219af976adfa809/INT-02-EDITTED.jpg" /> The Standard is a proposal that allows architecture to be participated beyond the contractor and architecture. As a user and consumer-centric system, the house has the flexibility to grow and contract. As the project modular volume is derived by a 3.3 x 3.3m grid, with only three unique conditions of a straight, corner-out, corner-in condition, there is a flexible, yet contained system allowing for a feasible system that can be reused and repurposed. The project volumetric module can be broken down into half or thirds so that each facade module is 1.1m to 1.65m allowing for greater flexibility and economy while projects are shipped and transported. This conceptual project re-imagines the dialogue between the architect and the user, by allowing the user to grow and learn about design and construction. The Standard is a prototype that can be deployed in both the rural and urban setting in hopes to bring a more flexible environment that engages inside and outside context. Laminated Insulating Glass allows for great transparency for residents to view out, and partake in the city views. In the city, the modular systems can be stacked going vertically and having a minimal building footprint. To reduce the amount of embodied carbon footprint and energy use in these modular homes, the use of recycled wood is installed in the flooring finish, interior walls, built-in furniture and ceiling framing. Urban Modular buildings will have opportunities to allow for terraces at a module of 3.3m. Terraces and roofs allow users to have access to open air, private gardens, and green roofs providing a sustainable and environmentally conscious approach to living and wellness. Rural Modular homes are built on a single-story configuration paying homage to the prairie style and modernist homes. An upturn cladding profile at the ground floor and downturn cladding profile at the ceiling line reduces the amount of glass being manufactured while giving opportunities for an integrated MEP and FF/E systems of built-in storage and seating along the perimeter of the homes. The Standard assumes pre-fabricated components of vertical surfaces (walls) and horizontal surfaces (roofs and slabs) with a simple module that can be quickly installed and constructed on-site. Lastly PV Panels and Trellis systems can be installed atop for self-sustaining architecture. https://tktn.works/Clover-House Tue, 28 Dec 2021 05:59:16 +0000 Tommy Kyung Tae Nam https://tktn.works/Clover-House Clover HouseTop 50 Selected Award The Tiny House Competition 2021Design Team | Eujean Cheong <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/433085154b11be4e0ada331731fe1b94a81a0441aabf07d565a71d9329555d72/V1-FINAL.jpg" data-mid="128359468" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/433085154b11be4e0ada331731fe1b94a81a0441aabf07d565a71d9329555d72/V1-FINAL.jpg" /> <img width="3500" height="2500" width_o="3500" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2239b539c78afe6126f7410088313c2c260765d6587d028fe2a61029abf8cb31/INT-03-EDIT.jpg" data-mid="128359465" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2239b539c78afe6126f7410088313c2c260765d6587d028fe2a61029abf8cb31/INT-03-EDIT.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/90de15abd30e20c0f70c200c8f5e716efdc938414850a29900de7b11d9522f17/INT-05-EDIT.jpg" data-mid="128359466" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/90de15abd30e20c0f70c200c8f5e716efdc938414850a29900de7b11d9522f17/INT-05-EDIT.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f2474ea188c1526f167ca57d5cc680a851a66b721391ee793814f0a7e0635ca/INT-06-EDIT.jpg" data-mid="128359467" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f2474ea188c1526f167ca57d5cc680a851a66b721391ee793814f0a7e0635ca/INT-06-EDIT.jpg" /> The typical modern glass house situated in the remote and wilderness, celebrates the concept of privacy and openness through the programmatic divide of the shell and hearth. The shell is a blank canvas of glass allowing one to view out and to be connected with nature and the surrounding environment. The hearth contains the utilities and mechanical programs such as the bathroom and kitchen. The Clover House reimagines the traditional glass box and starts to manipulate the shell; extracting the shell into its major programs of living, working, sleeping, cleaning, and dining. The programs are pushed out and separated allowing for more diversity between the spaces that are usually hard to distinguish between in houses with such small footprints. Similar to the form of petals found in a clover, the exterior facade undulates going in and out, creating concave and convex moments. This unclear delineation between the outside and inside gives the user opportunities to organize the interior and semi-outdoor spaces to their preference. In its default case, growing plants containing flowers, fruits, and vegetables can be harvested in the threshold creating beauty for its user, while being a natural barrier for privacy and shelter. The Clover House seeks to be a self-sustaining home reinforcing the brief that allows for a thoughtful and conscience architecture that can take advantage of practices of carbon farming, urban farming, clean and breathable living, and environmental sourced materials such as recycled wood found in all the storage, cabinetry, and roof canopy. https://tktn.works/Timeframe Sat, 04 Apr 2020 23:00:23 +0000 Tommy Kyung Tae Nam https://tktn.works/Timeframe Timeframe pavilion design a collaboration with "Archipleasures"2019+ Detroit City of Design Competition Submission - Finalist+ UNESCO Detroit City of Design <img width="3200" height="1800" width_o="3200" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25daa2cff595a01b664ffd9e48d6ae0a354b0ee4ea0d8c1c129972b9873ed2f6/PERS-07-DAY-EDIT.jpg" data-mid="100296790" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25daa2cff595a01b664ffd9e48d6ae0a354b0ee4ea0d8c1c129972b9873ed2f6/PERS-07-DAY-EDIT.jpg" /> <img width="3200" height="1800" width_o="3200" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9fc9f531f6a22b3ffb43227cd22282d067b319be1c1a47b44b8d5a759cf65e28/PERS-07-NIGHT-EDITS.jpg" data-mid="100296786" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9fc9f531f6a22b3ffb43227cd22282d067b319be1c1a47b44b8d5a759cf65e28/PERS-07-NIGHT-EDITS.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="1200" width_o="3000" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7749bae977904e04dc8d051382df2c7d8682376288f42261da885644fb5a6870/elevations.jpg" data-mid="78419405" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7749bae977904e04dc8d051382df2c7d8682376288f42261da885644fb5a6870/elevations.jpg" /> Our team seeks to enhance the landscape with a playful and flexible installation that supports the community’s endeavor to reclaim spatial stewardship over designated locations in the neighborhood. It will ultimately be a sculptural installation that indicates change in time and space. At its onset, the project will serve as a beacon, a spectacle. But as more people grow accustomed, it will become quotidian and unseen, truly blending in with the urban elements that make up a streetscape- the bus stop, the streetlights, the stop sign, the bench, the trees, the trash can- all the things that make up a neighborhood. Timeframe views the portal as an iconic architectural element that is shared throughout cultures- a fundamental expression of invitation or welcoming. Its form functions as a marker and defines clear transitions between spaces. The material strategy is borrowed from the concept of scaffold construction- an installed system that is in constant temporal state, as it is only used to support another building. However, it is the symbol that anticipates, prepares, and promises a final product in the making. The assemblage will be composed of readily available PVC piping. As a pilot, the ideal project would be easily maintained but also allow for constant experimentation and customization. The density of humble materials will generate transparency and a recognizable presence on the site. Taking cues from commonplace urban artifacts, like roadblocks or traffic signs, the project seeks to imbue an otherwise ordinary object with tailored configurations that can house multiple types of activity. The deployable and modular markers can be strategically placed in the landscape into three main configurations. The first, imagines how all the modules on the given site invite larger audiences to stay, inhabit, and engage a more localized event. This can take the form of a concert or a community gathering. The second, encourages people to walk around the project and to experience its multiple facets, similar to market stalls or playgrounds. The last configuration, blatantly asks pedestrians to travel from one module to the next. The intention is to ease visitors into experiencing the diverse stages of walkability.