Portfolio 2025

Portfolio

2018 - 2025 Selected Works

GyuBeom Kim

Master of Science in Architecture

Pratt Institute

GYUBEOM KIM

T. +1 929 437 7516

E. gkim32@pratt.edu

A. 417 Grand Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

EDUCATION

Pratt Institute

Master of Science in Architecture

Pusan National University

Bachelor of Architecture

Department of Bio-Industrial Machinery Engineering

ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE

Corals Inc

Architectural Intern (Full Time, Hybrid)

- Contributed to a villa renovation project from schematic to design development phases.

- Producsed 3D models, plans, elevations, sections, and renderings using Rhino and Enscape.

Hana Retail (Independent Project)

Freelance Project Contributor (Hybrid)

- Produced millwork drawings and visualizations for grocery store display fixtures.

- Conducted site measurements and prepared floor plans and sketches for client meetings.

- Coordinated with fabricators to ensure feasibility of designs.

Pusan National University

Space Director of Graduation Exhibition

- Defined concept and layout requirements for optimal space use and circulation.

- Coordinated material sourcing and collaborated with fabricators for exhibition components.

Busan Architecture

Architectural Intern (Full Time)

- Designed massing, layouts, and study models for the Dream Tree Support Complex Center.

- Researched elderly/childcare trends and developed visual presentations.

- Created sketches and façade concepts to support feedback in the early design phase.

SEOHEOUNG TECH Co., Ltd

Freelance 3D Designer (Hybrid)

- Translated complex mechanical CAD drawings into 3D models for 8 industrial products

- Collaborated with engineers to ensure technical accuracy of models.

- Produced renderings for the company’s product webpage and internal presentations.

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Busan, Republic of Korea 01. 2021 - 05. 2023

Busan, Republic of Korea 07. 2023

Busan, Republic of Korea

2022 - 02. 2022

Busan, Republic of Korea 01. 2021 - 03. 2021

SKILLS

Software

REVIT, AutoCAD, Rhino, SketchUp, D5, Enscape, V-ray, Grasshopper, Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Microsoft Office Suite

Languages

English (Fluent), Korean (Native)

ACTIVITIES

Korean Architects Association of New York (KAANY)

Member Portfolio Tutoring

Volunteer Tutor

- Engaged in networking, mentorship, design discussions, and cultural exchange within New York’s Korean architectural community. Guided architecture students on portfolio design, presentation, and applications strategies.

Judo (Martial Arts)

3rd Degree Black Belt, Practitioner

- Practiced Judo for over 10 years, fostering discipline, resilience, teamwork, and leadership.

Pusan National University

Leader of Design Study Group (membership of 8)

- Building Design Analysis : Spatial Syntax, Structure, Detail, Quantative Analysis. Leader of Design Study Group (membership of 4)

- Coordinated group research and discussion on design theory and practice.

References

References and recommendation letters available upon request

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Infrastructural Poetics

Design begins not with the final form, but with a process—of layering, iterating, and responding. Many of the projects in this portfolio explore architecture as more than structure or utility: they treat it as a sensory and symbolic medium capable of engaging human experience and ecological narratives. Influenced by the idea of infrastructure as poetics, some projects reimagine systems as affective and spatial agents, while others draw on repetition, material transformation, and emergent geometries to create rhythm and atmosphere.

This portfolio navigates a range of themes—from the tactile textures of urban infrastructure to the emotional resonance of symbolic form—unified by a commitment to design as a dynamic, evolving act. Projects often emerge from intersections between distinct domains—art and engineering, memory and ecology, the digital and the hand-drawn—where the unfamiliar gives rise to new spatial possibilities. Each work is guided by experimentation and iteration, not toward a single solution, but toward a layered architectural language that invites interpretation, sensation, and coexistence.

Design Studio 2, Spring

Design Studio 3, Summer 2025

Design Studio 1, Fall 2024 Mediums 3, Spring 2025

Design Studio 3, Spring 2021 Design Studio 7, Spring 2023

Robotic Hatchery 01

Spring 2025, Pratt Institute

Aug. 2024 - Dec. 2024

Academic, Collaborative Work (Partner: Jonathan Lee)

Professor: Fabian Llounch

Automatic Robotic Sytem + Billion Oyster Project

Location: Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, New York

Software: Rhino + Vray + Adobe Suite

Deep Sea Nautilus Diagrams showing external sheel and internal chambered anatomy

How should architecture be designed for new oyster farming infrastructure?

This project encompasses infrastructure for automated oyster farming, reef production and maintenance, as well as public programs for education. Based on biological metaphors, we approached the design with a systems-thinking mindset rooted in scalable and selfsustaining biological processes.

Functioning as a local landmark, the building operates like a living organism—grafted onto existing structures and adapting to its surrounding environment.

3/16”=1’-0” Physical Model

Air brushed PLA, UV Resin, PVC, Cast Acrylic, Plywood, Framing Lumber, HDU, 25” x 74” x 50”

Selected for 2025 Pratt Show Archived at Pratt Institute School of Architecture

For

This project focuses on oyster cultivation as a means of water purification. Research at both local and global scales shows that climate change and sea level rise are driving marine pollution. Building on the Billion Oyster Project, the site is proposed as a testing ground for an automated, globally adaptable purification system.

ADDED AQUA ROBOTICS PROGRAM

GIVEN

EARLY ED. ROBOTICS PROG. VENTURE CAPITAL BILLION OYSTER PROJECT

stack-wrap-reflect program-transparency fracture-layering circulation-site

for two generations

rebuild-fill-subtract bind-tear scars-infill operation-circulation

stack-wrap-pierce growth-interiority interiority-wrapping mass-program-in&out

pierce-protrude prosthestic-lift extend-mass program-circulation

stack-pierce-oblique intrude-disrupt mass-adjacency mass-interiority-program

high tide 2020s

high tide 2100

future flood plain 2020s

future flood plain 2100

existing - significant

design language - detail

program - circulation -section

skin - massing

Bug Model Taxonomy Diagram

The taxonomy diagram, integrated with the bug models, illustrates the flow of thought from site, building, and program research to the identification of issues, potentials, and design solutions. On the left, the 24 bug models represent iterations of program, building conditions, and design ideas, which converge into a cohesive narrative. This narrative unfolds into program organization, design language, and the relationship between people and infrastructure, ultimately extending beyond function and renovation toward metaphor, symbolism, and the role of the building as a landmark.

layering - cutting

program arrangement

human - robotics

Viewing Steps

Intersecting Space

Sectional Physical Model, 3/16”=1’-0”

Air brushed PLA, UV Resin, PVC, Cast Acrylic, Plywood, Framing Lumber, HDU, 25” x 74” x 50”

Selected for 2025 Pratt Show

Archived at Pratt Institute School of Architecture

Exisiting vs New

The building is conceived as a single organism composed of multiple “organs” where the expandable oyster-farming automation system intersects with public programs. Within these organs, the moving objects interact and form relationships. The three model images on the upper left illustrate how people experience the building as part of this flowing system, and how new organs connect to the existing structure and evolve into design.

Existing Condition

1. 2. 3. 4. Chimney Coal Storage Steel Structure Pier (680feet)

Fabrication

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Shell Conveyer Shell Grinding Concrete Batching & Printing Oyster Reef Propagating Reef Maturation Chamber Robotic Reef Application

Sectional Chunk Model

Intersecting Space

Community Steps

Open Education

Observatory Tentacle (waterfront)

Observatory Tentacle(urban)

Isolated Water Testing

Deep Water Testing

Conveyer Pipe

Oyster Shell Grinding

Oyster Reef Fabricating

Oyster Reef Propagating

Storage / Water Pump

Within this vast, organism-like building, people encounter devices that redefine how they relate to architecture. Pipes cut across the structure, testing tanks are vertically embedded to connect systems, and similar elements are distributed throughout the space. These devices are integrated with one of the Billion Oyster Project’s central goals—education—allowing learning to emerge naturally through spatial experience.

One of the building’s most important functions is not only to operate as infrastructure but also to reveal how people engage with this system. Just as we find interest in watching the preparation process in omakase dining, or observing robotic arms making coffee through transparent glass, this building allows visitors to directly see and feel how the infrastructural system works. Such experiences serve an educational role, foster curiosity about infrastructure itself, and ultimately contribute to achieving the crucial goal of sustainability.

Summer 2025, Pratt Institute

Academic, Individual Work

Professor: Erich Schoenenberger, Alex Tahinos

Program: Hydro-Infrastructure, Mobility Network, Community Center

Location: Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico

Software: Rhino + Enscape, D5 + Adobe Suite

Speculative

This project is located near the Norte Stadium in Mexico City and speculates on the city’s future conditions before and after large-scale events such as the upcoming World Cup. It addresses the paradoxical challenges of water scarcity and flooding that affect the city, reconnects pedestrian networks fragmented by road infrastructure, and provides new public space. More importantly, through a speculative lens, the project extends beyond problem-solving to propose an experimental framework that reimagines how infrastructure and urban life can generate new possibilities for community activation and resilience.

Connecting Spots, Collecting Water

The design begins by identifying and connecting multiple potential spots around the site. Public programs, positioned alongside an activated pedestrian network, transform these points into key urban nodes. At the same time, rainwater collected from the building’s surfaces and a flood-responsive plaza serve as passive strategies to address both water scarcity and flooding.

Base on Function as footbridge, Roof, Program, Rain Harvesting

Through a formal study exploring forms suitable for a system that simultaneously addresses pedestrian networks and water collection and storage programs, the design has evolved into a form that not only meets these requirements but also enables the system to operate effectively.

Axonometric Building Section Rhino, Enscape

Infrastructure for People and Water

The floor plan not only performs the system of water collection, filtration, storage, and distribution but is also designed to adapt to both everyday conditions and large-scale events such as the World Cup, where massive crowds gather and disperse. The second floor primarily functions as a circulation level; on ordinary days, it accommodates a vendor market and provides space for the local community to stroll and gather. During events, however, all spaces can be cleared to accommodate large flows of people.

Designing for Everyday and Event

Similar to the second floor, the ground floor is developed not only to operate the rain harvesting system but also to adapt to conditions before and after flooding. During floods, the plaza functions as a pond that retains water; in everyday situations, it becomes a public park; and during events, it transforms into a gathering space for people. In the diagram, the contrasting shading illustrates the difference in occupancy density between event periods and ordinary days.

The ground space condition diagram illustrates a porous form carved by human movement, revealing unique spatial qualities shaped through circulation. Unlike the uncomfortable underpasses of conventional footbridges, this serves as a strong example of how pedestrian infrastructure can be integrated with architecture to function more effectively.

How can we experience architecture that is integrated with infrastructure? From its earliest planning stages, this project has focused on the flows of water and people. Just as water is collected, filtered, stored, and redistributed through a sequence of processes, the movement of people is aligned with this sequence, allowing them to directly experience each stage of rain harvesting within the building. Through this, residents can transform negative associations with water into new experiences, while the building itself functions as both a community hub and a device for shifting perception.

Typical Building Section

Small

Vendor Market & Pedestrian Network Public Park

Inhale-Exhale 03

Fall 2024, Pratt Institute

Academic, Individual Work

Professor: Alex Tahinos

Program: Housing, Public Park + CO2 Capturing

Location: 395 Broome St, New York

Software: Rhino + Enscape + Adobe Suite

Urban Sampling

This project explores the integration of CO₂-capturing technology with urban elements such as small parks in New York City. Its goal is to merge futuristic technology with familiar spaces, creating a new architectural experience where past and future intersect. Through this process, the project investigates how emerging technologies can organically embed themselves within the urban environment.

Step 1: Hybrid Experimentation

In the initial stage, the project analyzed the functional aspects of CO₂ capturing and processing devices and explored their potential to merge seamlessly with architectural forms. Through 3D modeling experiments, elements of urban parks—such as benches, streetlights, plantings, and paving—were sampled and combined with new technological devices in a hybrid modeling process. This experiment went beyond simply visualizing technical performance, aiming instead to explore how urban spaces might acquire new aesthetic and atmospheric qualities in the era of climate change.

Urban Sampling

01. Original Model

Modeling Experiment

Hybrid Experiment

3. Hybrid Experiments

Step 2: Selection on Hybrid Object

Among the various hybrid models, objects suitable for residential and public programs were selected. The multi-family housing is composed as if made of modular units, resonating with the logic of windfall. Meanwhile, the park is envisioned not as a standardized or efficiency-driven space, but as a place where people can linger and relax—integrated with CO₂ processing casings. These hybrids embody both functional and sculptural qualities, visualizing how CO₂-capturing technology can naturally permeate the urban context. Renderings of the selected hybrids present concrete spatial images, revealing a new hybrid atmosphere within familiar cityscapes.

01. Whole Parts of Hybrid Objects

02. Details of Hybrids Objects

Phase 3: Architectural Integration

In the final stage, these hybrid objects were fused with actual architecture. As seen in the contrast between the floor plan and the axonometric building section, CO₂-capturing machines equipped with filters are integrated into residential units, supplying purified air to the interior. At the same time, the filtered air is released into the CO₂ Free Park, where it merges with kinetic devices to generate an entirely new type of park atmosphere. Through this process, people are able to sense, observe, and experience the act of filtration directly.

In the final stage, the project is articulated as a single building operating in dialogue with its context. At the rear of the site, where the balconies of adjacent buildings face inward, the CO₂ Free Park is strategically placed in respect to this condition. The surrounding buildings emphasize a repetitive verticality, which the design both acknowledges and reinterprets. This results in a gradually recessed, cave-like entrance at the front, contrasted by a vastly open public park at the rear. The strong juxtaposition of these elements produces a spatial drama, allowing the building to operate as an architectural form that resonates with its context while offering a new type of public space.

Vertical Dynamics 04

Fall 2024, Pratt Institute

Academic, Individual Work

Professor: Fabian Llonch

Proseminar: Skins

Location: 110 Prince St, New York

Software: Midjourney, Rhino, Enscape, Adobe Suite

Image to Skin

This project explores the architectural potential of geometries derived from AIgenerated images. By analyzing and translating these algorithmically-produced forms and patterns, the study investigates how they can be applied to existing environments as expressive facade designs. It aims to propose new modes of spatial expression where digital imagery meets material architecture.

Phase 1: AI Generative Image

Mid Journey

Based on images obtained through Midjourney’s blending feature, this project explores the potential of functioning as a skin by extracting forms, separating similar elements, and layering them.

Phase 2: Respect of Verticality

110 Prince St, Soho, Manhattan

With the goal of designing dynamism while respecting the strongly vertical context, the project was gradually developed by varying density, scale, layering, and assembly.

Phase 3: Methaphor of Water Fall

The final façade, shaped through layering and density testing, metaphorically resembles a waterfall. It introduces a pocketpark quality into the city’s vertical monotony, with each layer abstracting elements of flowing water—streams, stones, and mist—turning the skin into both structure and poetic image.

3/16”=1’-0” Study Models PLA, 4” x 4”

3/16”=1’-0” Physical Model

Archived at Pratt Institute School of Architecture

Mimicry Facades 05

Spring 2025, Pratt Institute

Academic, Individual Work

Professor: Joseph Giampietro Mediums 3: Visuallization

Location: 500 Park Avenue, New York

Software: Midjourney, Rhino, Enscape, Adobe Suite

Mimicry, Fragmentation, Systemic Assemblies

“Mimicrying Facade” is an architectural experiment where different façade systems coexist with similar functions and forms, yet never fully integrate. Rooted in the concept of mimicry, the project explores the tension between similarity and difference, and the assemblage-like collisions that shape the façade design.

Transition via Visual Mediums

Mimicrying Facade is an experimental façade design that explores the concept of mimicry. By allowing the curved bay window and the vertical curtain wall–louver system to imitate yet resist full integration, the project creates a layered surface where similarity and difference coexist, producing tension, continuity, and unique architectural expression.

Initial Modeling Studies

Louver System(left), Bay Window(right)

Photography Reinterpretation

Photoshop

AI Inspiration

Midjourney

Victory of Jagalchi Market 06

Spring 2021, PNU

Academic, Individual Work

Professor: Jaehoon Jook

Program: Cultural Complex

Location: Jagalchi Market, Busan, Republic of Korea

Structure: Post-tensioned concrete slab, Tensile membrane

Software: Rhino + Adobe Suite

Preservation of Traditional Markets and Sensibility

This project preserves the traditional market while adding vibrancy through a cultural facility above it, which also provides the market’s entrance and roof. Inspired by the market’s iconic canopy, the upper structure employs a tensile system that maintains the market’s distinctive ambiance while introducing modern functionality.

The suspended, overlapping canopies serve as the building’s surface, symbolizing the market’s disorderly yet harmonious character. Through gaps between them, fragmented scenes of the market emerge, immersing visitors in its atmosphere. Together with the market’s historical value, this complementary architecture enriches the community and elevates the market as both a daily hub and a tourism asset.

The first market is created when people gather to buy and sell daily necessities and various items. Over time, buildings are erected and streets become organized, and the variable and temporary characteristics of the market fade away. The physical market becomes standardized and loses its sensitivity. What is the role of architecture in preserving the traditional market and its unique sensibilities? A hint could be found in the objects used in the formation of the first market, such as tents.

Deformation

Gravity 07

Spring 2023, PNU

Academic, Individual

Professor: Chaerin Lee

Program: Community Center

Location: Busan, Republic of Korea

Structure: Timber, Reinfored Concrete

Software: Rhino + Grasshopper

The project explores the relationship between the theories of physics and architecture. It began with my idea that architecture has the power to attract people, similar to how massive celestial bodies in space draw objects towards them. The aim of the design is to create spaces that embody the force of architecture, including a complex facility for the local community.

The structures and forms created through the metaphorical similarities between physics and architecture will provide people with new shapes and a variety of spatial experiences.

Operation1 : General Theory of Relativity

Oparation2: Hohmann transfer orbit

The theories of relativity and the Hohmann transfer orbit have been applied to architecture, developing them into structural basic forms and specific designs, respectively.

Design Sequence

entering space (positive) gathering space (negative) program strength (mass)

Section Plan

551 Breezy Hill Villa (In progress) 01

Project Contributor(Full Time), Corals Inc

2024. 12 - 2025. 02

Professional, Intern Architect

Program: Villa

Project Type: Renovation

Location: 551 Breezy Hill Rd, Hillsdale, NY

Structure: Timber

Software: CAD, Rhino, Enscape

This project renovates a vacation home at 551 Breezy Hill with one basement and two above-ground stories. The basement, once storage, is now a recreation room. On the first floor, a bedroom and large bathroom replace the small living area. The second-floor living room was expanded by moving the dining space to the terrace, adding spatial flow. A framed visual axis at the entrance creates a staged view into the living room.

My role in this project was to produce the basic drawing set, including sections, elevations, and detailed drawings. Through this process, I developed a deeper understanding of the construction principles of typical two-story wood-frame buildings in the U.S. and gained valuable insight into interior architectural detailing.

Future Generations Support Complex 02

Internship(Full Time), Busan Architecture

12. 2019 - 02. 2020

Professional, Collaborative Work (Member of 5)

Role: Intern | Massing & Layout Development, Facade Drafting, Case Studies

Program: Childcare Support Center

Project Type: Competition (2nd Prize)

Location: Busan, Republic of Korea

Software: CAD, SketchUp

A Childcare Facility Balancing Public Accessibility and Security

This project aims to achieve both public accessibility and security by leveraging the unique characteristics of the site. The site is located on a steep slope, with a small forest at the rear and a main pedestrian road at the front. Taking advantage of this terrain, the outdoor play area is placed on the upper level, enclosed by the building and the forest to ensure a safe environment for children. Meanwhile, the multipurpose auditorium is positioned on the lower level, enhancing accessibility not only for the children at the daycare but also for local residents. Through this design, the facility goes beyond its childcare function to serve as a communal space for the neighborhood.

Retail Display Fixtures 03

Freelancer(Hybrid), Hana Retail Display

2021 - 2023

Professional, Freelance 3D Designer

Project Type: Renovation, Interior

Location: Busan, Republic of Korea

Software: CAD, SketchUp

Design Intent

The project involved designing and detailing custom display fixtures for a grocery retail environment. Tasks included precise site measurements, floor plan adjustments, and fabrication coordination to ensure functional layouts and durable millwork solutions. The design emphasized efficiency, accessibility, and clear product presentation.

Industrial Product Visualization & Product 04

Freelancer(Hybrid), SEOHEOUNG TECH Co, Ltd

01. 2021 - 03. 2021

Professional, Independant Work

Role: 3D Modeling, CAD Translation, Rendering

Project Type: Renovation

Location: Busan, Republic of Korea

Software: CAD, SketchUp, Enscape

A Freelance Role Bridging CAD Precision and Visualization

During a short-term freelance contract, I created 3D models for eight industrial products by converting complex CAD drawings into accurate digital forms. Working closely with engineers ensured technical precision, while high-quality renderings supported both product marketing and internal presentations. This role combined accuracy with visualization to serve multiple teams effectively.

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