The ‘Roundabout living’ is a speculative prototype of alternative inner city residential development which occupies redundant central island spaces found at the large roundabout intersections in London’s traffic network.

On top of the reclaimed public space, a 48 story residential tower is proposed hovering 20 meters above the ground. The structure of the tower is made of a network of diagonal peripheral cores which include lifts and services. This network forms the basis of both functional and structural integrity of the proposal. It creates a series of residential clusters and nodes of transitions so that the large numbers of units are subdivided into smaller groups hence increase sense of community.



Architects: poly.m.ur - Homin Kim, Chris S. Yoo
Location : London, UK
Projectt Status : speculative design reserarch
Site area : 5,700 m2
Bldg area : 1,800 m2
Floss floor area : 91,360 m2

poly.m.ur

Water Puritying Unit, Kwangju, Gyeonggi-do, South, Korea



Vogue House, Seoul, Korea
Fashion and Architecture



Sky Garden, Spiretec, India
Garden and Public Space Connection Throughout the Building

Sung Goo Yang established his Boston-based firm Ether Ship in 2008. His work spans scales from urban design to fashion runways and abstract digital animations and designs—all expressing his interest in the interplay between image and form. Recent work includes his prize-winning competition for the Gwangbook Street Renovation in Busan City, Korea; “Vogue Fashion House” and a fashion show runway for Wooyoungmi, both commissioned by Vogue Korea; the “Seoul Change Project,” commissioned by Harper’s Bazaar; and competition entries for a gallery in Porto and the Incheon Changla Tower.

Sung Goo Yang

8 Towers , Ordos 100 |  Inner Mongolia | 2010

SsD was included in a gobal selection of 100 architects curated by Ai WeiWei and Herzog and deMeuron.  The abstraction of the desert site is taken as an opportunity to develop new prototypical relationships between program and efficient energy use.  Each of the 8 towers contains a separate and distinct program: entry, living, food, exercise, sleeping, and bathing. Through the distortion of each tower’s geometry, the volumes join or separate creating strategic connections and segregations so that only occupied portions of the building need to consume energy.  The organization also creates experiential differences between rooms that are necessarily similar in size, while creating a high level of both porosity and privacy.  Finally, the strategy heightens the identity and iconography of each program promoting an intensity of accidental or intentional relationships between differing activities.

structural diagram: towers are able to lean by keeping the centroids of volumes within foundation line

Different zones of the home are used at different times of day. dynamically adapting building systems to these patterns of use allows for greater energy-efficiency. Separating the program into separate towers forms new spatial relationships while maximizing light and air to all rooms.



PROJECT CREDITS:

architect - Jinhee Park AIA, John Hong AIA/LEED (principals in charge), Brett Albert, Frederick Peter Ortner, Matthew Allen, Caroline Lang, Clara Wong, Bao Wei
structural engineer - Paul Kassabian, SGH

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