Sited within a rugged coastal landscape, amidst the larger archipelago, Helsinki is a place profoundly situated in- between land and sea. By configuring the harbour to mediate between land and water uses, resident and tourist amenities, port traffic and pedestrian space; and by weaving these competing activities together to not only allow, but enhance, their co-existence, the proposal addresses this in-between-ness, and through the twin strategies of the Path and the Archipelago a unique vision is presented for a new and dynamic cultural district in the heart of 21st century Helsinki. The Path, formed around and between the consolidated port terminals, creates a continuous thread of public open space and transit routes connecting both sides of the harbour as a unified district, and stitches the waterfront and its cultural activities back to the surrounding city at various points of tangency. Along the inland edge of the Central Market, the path decks over the depressed Etelaranta and Phojoisesplanadi streets to frame the historic plaza with a pedestrian greenway that allows direct access from the historic city center. As the path engages with the water, the edge is modified to facilitate the docking of programmed barges, which through their migrations will continually transform South Harbour, connecting the cultural activities of South Harbour to the various other harbours around the city and the greater archipelago beyond.

123occupy is a project meant to connect strategies for occupation and protest with reproducible physical actions. We do this through prototypes and a simple set of instructions for building. | ACTION: STAKE GROUND Project 1 is INSULATED PALLET, foundwooden pallets insulated with layers of cardboard (2-3 inches) and waterproofedabove and below with plastic tarp. When placed side by side, thesepallets have the capacity to stake ground in a modular grid pattern. Originally designed and built as awinterizing strategy for the Zuccotti Park occupation. | ACTION: COLLAPSE FOR MOBILITY Project 2 is BUBBLE WRAP MOBILE,built on an INSULATED PALLET that pops up to house public activities. Though the prototype was originally built to house a winterized self-servicedesk for the medical tents at Zuccotti Park, the design is deliberately simpleand multi-purpose. BUBBLE WRAP MOBILE is made fromhinged 1x3s with pegged diagonal bracing. Its skin bubble wrap shinglesheat are welded between plastic for insulated transparency. | ACTION: BE TEMPORARY INFLATABLE G.A. is a temporarystructure to cover the general assembly. It acts symbolically—inflatedabove the general assembly it assumes a temporary presence to the rest of thecity—and practically—shielding from the elements and providing a space to storethe heat of bodies during the winter. INFLATABLE G.A. can be a messageboard and a call to gather. When the gathering has finished, it modestlydeflates, allows the city to take back its public space, and waits to berelocated for another public meeting. | In collaboration with Greta Hansen, Adam Koogler, and Andy Rauchut. | Download the Material: http://www.123occupy.blogspot.com/

It is inherent in human behavior to present a front before others. Outside of our homes we all wear “social masks” and, in essence, all become actors and actresses for an indeterminate audience. Consequently, the spaces we inhabit can be perceived as amorphous or transient theatrical spaces. The concept of Sectional Theatricality is to provide a framework for the manifestation of this type of unexpressed pluralistic theatricality. The performer and audience are equals in their attempts to explore every-day human interactions in an artistic, poignant and experimental manner using found space. Our proposal involves the sectioning of St. Anna Church. Cutting the building transforms the structure into an open and communal space while retaining its original architectural characteristics. It also conflates notion of the performer and the audience where it is assumed that every individual has the creative capacity and spatial opportunity to embody both – a sectional view into another’s home and a stage set in one’s own home. | In collaboration with Hoang Nguyen and Creative United in the B, a performance planning group; Chiehwan Sung, Kyunghwan Jin, and Hyoju Lim

V.I.N.O. (Viticulture Integrated Networking Organism) transforms the Salerno-Reggio Calabria Highway into an ecologically and financially sustainable infrastructural system that is intelligent and innovative. This socially meaningful connection between Scilla and Bagnara is achieved through the synergies made with the confluence acts of Farming, Converting and Sharing. By thoroughly understanding the region's agricultural, historical and geological background, viticulture is extracted as an essential Farming element. Then the region's solar, wind and rainfall resources are "converted" through the energy farming as the main power and water resources for VINO. VINO constructs a framework for communities to "share" the synergies created through growing, collecting, transferring and distributing the nature. Once these components are mixed and stitched through the existing highway, unexpected synergies and innovations can occur that translate into productive landscapes and new culture. | In collaboration with Heejoo Shi & Dongsei Kim | Classified at Solar Park South Competition

The Atlantic City Boardwalk Memorial is a sculptural presence made from three paths that intertwine as they ascend, each rising to a view of the majestic ocean beyond. They form an abstract Star of David, the Jewish symbol, as described in the Holy Zohar (vol. III 73a) as “three knots connecting one to another: G-d, Torah and Israel." This three-dimensional symbolic diagram evokes this connection and a renewed faith in the persistence of humanity. The labyrinthine experience creates both moments of uplifting reflection and destabilizing tumult. Each of these passages upwards is framed by tall vertical pieces of recycled steel aged from 1944. As one climbs upwards, glass replaces the steel to gradually reveal the ocean ahead. Three significant poems (by Paul Celan, Czeslaw Milosz, and Martin Herskowitz) are engraved in selected seating areas. These areas provide places for contemplation, gathering, and meditation under the shadow of the memorial above. In collaboration with Alex Maymind

Peace derives from mutual understanding which can be enhanced through exposure to diverse cultures and opinions. Peace pentagon has kept their communityship to bring more voices of minorities to current issues and public awareness. The new 339 community building will maximize this function by reverberating the voices of people. The building will function as multiple soap boxes which retain and amplify voices of every peace movement of tenants, and collect diverse opinions from the general public. In collaboration with Heejoo Shi | Honorable Mention at Peace Pentagon, Call to Action Competition

Boundary defines relation. Socio-economic context of an existing site always requires negotiation between programs, architectural forms, and material, contextual and psychological behaviors. If a site is given, architecture should respond to its surrounding through constant negotiations of individual and collective relations. A linear program, which is derived from security checking process, adapts the building to a helix form as a result of adjusting the given site. Structural elements support the transformation of the architecture and boundaries are reconsidered to re-adjusting relations defined by physical and structural elements. This feedback loop re-defines boundaries and re-creates socio-economic relations. In collaboration with Yeoni Chang

How can preservation of historic figure activate community and its culture? Conventional ways of preservation passively refrigerate relics so that visitors and the artifacts hardly interact. Mere exposure of history does not catalyze the social activities. High Bridge Art Mall excavates the unused infrastructure – CROTON Aqueduct- in order to open up the new possibilities of active engagement with historic figure. Unearthed Aqueduct will function as cultural infrastructure with insertion of cultural programs in and around the pipe. In collaboration with Yongju Lee | Jury Selection at Highbridge Bronx, Emerging New York Architects Competition

Buenos Aires celebrates the nature’s most valuable assets, River Parana the second longest river in South America. This vertical zoo captures the ecosystem of the River Parana. The zoo, located at the east edge of the Rio de la Plata, “Costanera Sur” Ecological Reserve, will work as an ecological library to collect the critical parts of the river. Extensive archive of regional ecosystem will honor its own biological heritage to preserve it for the next generation. 7 critical regions along with the River are selected to archive. Different vegetation patterns from the regions are distributed vertically and the animals from the floral patterns will be located on same level. In collaboration with Yongju Lee

Water is an indispensible resource for human health and the alleviation of poverty. The need for action and awareness coincides in response to the changing environment thus, the Info-Poverty Totem Playground is a device for communication providing a link for play and learning exchange with different parts of the world. Through a school network system allowing for the exchange of information and visual dialogue between countries, the playground communicates the growing water crisis and the effects of unclean drinking water in underdeveloped nations. It is an educational and useful tool providing access to clean water along with the ability to gather water contaminant data. The logic behind their rotation is based on an "aiding-aided" country relationship, rendering opportunities for financial and development assistance to help alleviate poverty-stricken areas around the world. In collaboration with Bori Kang and Yongju Lee

New land by new way of reclamation provides housings, connects disassociated recreational network, and resolves (traffic) congestion of downtown Manhattan. In order to make a new reclamation, we propose a porous structural land fill system instead of trditional reclamation works. These self supported stuructural units not only can create vast waterfront area which has possibility to grow but also provide mass housings. These housings will resolve the chronic shortage of housing supply and the traffic congestions in Manhattan as well. In collaboration with Kyuseon Hong and Yongju Lee | Special Mention at eVolo Housing Competition