Seoul Studio

UNCC Study Abroad
Summer, 2016
Location: Seoul South Korea
Prof. Jeffery Nesbit + Partner Robbie Stubbs

Known as Seoul Studio, this architectural studio intentionally generates sensitive questions concerning the rise of capital development. The studio operates more as a detective interrogating and exposing what we don’t know in an attempt to reveal certain aspects of hidden, internalized urban morphological exchange. Using public architecture as focus for evaluation, the work proceeds across three stages of knowledge; (1) measuring the city through sampling, (2) detection of urban codes, and (3) translating urban evidences into negotiable design criteria for future responsive speculation.

My team's work is the last third of the publication here under Infrastructure as Armature which focuses on large infrastructural moves in the city under David Grahame Shane’s definition of armature. Here we map, model, and digest the types and ways these infrastructures develop and gentrify the city. Finally we propose speculative possibilities for the ways they will develop in the future due to existing developmental trends. Work shown below is one small subset of our teams production.

To see the full publication please see the link below:
https://issuu.com/jsnesbit/docs/ss16_book-digital This work was submitted and accepted into the Seoul Architectural Biennale the following year.

Seoul Studio

Morgan Jacobs