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Jiwon Heo

Jiwon Heo

New York, NY, US

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Seoul’s Next 100 years: Urban Mat

Removal and Collection of Sediments: This studio used the prompt of the Seoul Architecture Biennale (Land Architecture and Land Urbanism) to investigate the possibilities of a new paradigm for bridges-a paradigm that moves away from the entangled relationship between structure and path configurations (common in bridge design) and uses the absence of vehicular traffic in the prompt to explore a fine-grain montage between patterns of ecology (waterways, windways...), structure (rhythm of columns, arches, shells...), and human settlement to create a thick, yet light new constructed layered ground over Han River. This studio explored three examples of this paradigm across three sites outlined by the Biennale.

 
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Status: School Project