Held workshop on 'environment-friendly material soil meets advanced technology'
Architecture workshop during summer vacation held for the 10th straight year since 2008
Alumni architects working abroad and domestic and foreign college students participate to take part in architectural tests and discussions for 6 days
[Jul 14, 2017]
<The 'architecture workshop' is being held for the 10th straight year to help improve the capacities of students in the School of Architecture>
The YU School of Architecture is working hard to improve the capacities of students in their majors by holding architecture workshops regularly for the 10th consecutive year.
In order to offer special experiences and knowledge that are hard to deal with in the regular curriculum, the School of Architecture has been holding architecture workshops every summer vacation since 2008. The workshop was carried out by inviting alumni architects working abroad to serve as tutors. As time passed, it developed into an 'architecture workshop' joined by experts and college students from Korea and abroad.
<Architecture Workshop Group Practice and Presentations>
At this workshop, which marks its 10th year, students from the YU School of Architecture and 36 students who applied around the nation participated. At the workshop held at the Architecture Hall for six days from July 3 to 8, professors in different areas of architecture and architecture students who will be responsible for the future of architecture gathered to conduct experiments and hold discussions on various topics related to architecture, and also took the time to present their group's final output from the workshop.
Kang Kyu-won (YU School of Architecture, junior), who participated in this workshop, said, "It was a short time, but it was a valuable opportunity to be able to experience the new trends of architecture."
<Final presentation of outcomes from the architecture workshop>
In particular, Professor Park Dae-gwon was invited for this workshop. Professor Park joined the YU School of Architecture in 1998 and earned his degree at Harvard University, and is currently working at a prestigious private university of America, Syracuse University. Professor Park used soil, which is an environment-friendly material, for the theme of 'Future of Traditional Soil Architecture' and attempted various procedures to realize nonlinear architectural spaces and formats using digital architecture methods. The participating students grouped up into six teams and set their locations in and outside of the architecture hall to devise nonlinear devices, and made their own models using a 3D printer.
Professor Park Sang-min of the School of Architecture who planned and supervised this workshop said, "Nonlinear architecture is an important topic for future architecture and it has unlimited growth potential by combining with 3D printing technologies. This workshop themed on soil should have been very helpful to students." He added, "I hope that the architecture workshop, which is the pride of the YU School of Architecture, will be able to develop even further next year."
