Personal — leeyoonji

2017 - 2025

Ambiguity
2025 Spring
M.Arch Studio_3/Slab building

Although the slab building is a functional and economical structure, its inherent repetitiveness and closed system can suppress architectural diversity, resulting in homogenized environments. Nevertheless, density and efficiency remain crucial issues in contemporary society, and the slab building continues to offer one of the most practical solutions to address such challenges. Rather than accepting or rejecting it through a binary lens, it is essential to explore the latent potential of this form.
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Keywords Reinterpretation,Transformation,Experiential Space,Relational Architecture, Typological Innovation

Cube inFlow
2024-2025 Winter
International competition

Iceland is a land of sea, fields, volcanoes and glaciers. The project is located on a panoramic site at the edge of Reykjavik, facing the sea, and offers a harmonious fusion of nature and architecture through the conceptual language of 'inflow' and the formal element of 'courtyard'.
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Keywords Integration with Nature, Community Engagement, Functionality, Sustainability

Pieces
2024 Fall
M.Arch Studio_2/Urban

Redevelopment in Korea means to bulldoze existing grown urban structures and create a new ad-hoc city by master-plan planning. In order to build as high as possible and as quickly as possible, the existing environment is ignored, and dense high-rise apartment buildings form a dystopian urban concrete and asphalt landscape. In the process, neighborhood-ness and locality are lost, and residents are deprived of the place they have lived their whole life.
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Keywords Sustainable Urbanism, Social Sustainability,
Urban Regeneration and Renewal

Variation
2024 Spring
M.Arch Studio_1/Renovation

This studio is set in the Jeongdong district, especially Jeongdong-gil, which can be said to be a treasure trove of modern architecture. We ask questions and find current issues about how cultural heritage and buildings can build unique and correct values amid new demands and changes of the times.

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Keywords Renovation, Building, Multifunction, Music hall, Restaurant, Cafe

Loop
2019 Spring/Fall
Graduation Work

JeongDok Library, located in Bukchon, Seoul, is a building that was used as a school in the past. This building, which shows the beginning of the school building, is now preserved as an architectural cultural asset and is used as a library. However, I think that preserving the existing building as it is rather than using it reduces the value of the building and space.

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Keywords
Renovation, Interior, School, Library, Community, Cafe

Invisible Chair
2019 Fall
Design Computing Studio

The process of making this chair is a structure in which two chair sections come out from one piece. I designed a chair of clean lines on the outside and a chair with a lot of curvature on the inside to give a strong contrast.

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Keywords
Furniture, Interior, Bar, Cafe

Rock
2018 Summer
International Competition
Honorable Mention

Wellington is the place where the mountains, sea and cities coexist with each other. And the pavilion is on the most central location of that beautiful city. So, I tried to make it not to disrupt the panoramic view of city but at the same time to be iconic.

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Keywords Pavilion, Waterfront, Observatory, Gallery

Pixel
2018 Winter
International Competition

The DMZ is a demilitarized zone located in the military demarcation line between South Korea and North Korea. South and North Korea are currently in a state of ceasefire, but tensions of war still persist between them. The theme of the competition was to create a public bathhouse in DMZ that both South and North Korea could use.

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Keywords Landscape, Bathouse, Hotel, Observatory, Cultural Space, Community, Restaurant

Campfire
2017 Spring
Furniture Studio

This is the CAMPFIRE light. With the function of heating and lighting, the design not only lighten up spaces it is a heating devices for out- or indoor spaces. The light itself is portable and you can put it everywhere.

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Keywords Furniture, Outdoor, Camping, Lamp