Soomeenam Desin SD 咸琇敏 设计研究事务所 td http: //soomeenhahm .com/ 8a Leather Ln, London, UK, EC1N 7RE +44.75.9529.0322 [email protected] Soomeenam Desin SD 咸琇敏 设计研究事务所 td Soomeen Hahm Director of SoomeenHahm Design Ltd. Teaching Fellow at UCL Bartlett School of Architecture (RC9) Director of AA Visiting School Beijing Director of AA Visiting School Seoul M.Arch, Architectural Association (AADRL), London UK B.Arch , Tsinghua University, Beijing China Former Senior Designer of Zaha Hadid Architects Former Course Tutor at AA Design Research Lab (DRL) Former Unit master at Architectural Association (Int 13) Former Unit master at UCL Bartlett School of Architecture (UG2) Soomeen Hahm is the founder of the SoomeenHahm Design Ltd, an architectural designer and researcher based in London. She gained her Bachelors of Architecture degree at the Beijing Tsinghua University and her Masters of Architecture degree at the Architectural Association where she studied in the Design Research Lab (DRL). After her graduation, she developed her interests focusing on research in generative and algorithmic design through the use of computer coding, application of multi-agent systems in design, interactive/responsive environments, behavioural patterns of natural systems, as well as robotic fabrication processes and digital modes of produc- tion. She is specialized in coding, digital simulations and 3d modelling in various software platforms. Since her graduation, Soomeen has taught and lectured at numerous institutions in UK and internationally, teaching studios, workshops and short courses focusing on computational design. In addition to this, she is contributing to various online educational platforms and digital toolset libraries. While participating in different academic events, she tries to tackle the issue of agent based design paradigm in architecture across multiple scales, through collaboration and exchange of knowledge with other experts from the field. She is currently teaching at the Bartlett UCL and AA, directing few design studio dealing with various computational design approaches in architecture. She is also an experienced designer worked several years at Zaha Hadid Architects and Zaha Hadid Design where she engaged in designing some of the most iconic buildings and products. SoomeenHahm Design Ltd. – is a London based design studio focusing on design research and practice tackling the issues of computational paradigm in architecture across multiple scales and perspectives. The research looks at the ecology of Contact computational power, technology and human intuition and see how this collaboration impacts on the design industry and physical environment. Approached from strong academic drives, the office is trying to bridge between academic interest web: soomeenhahm.com email: [email protected] and commercial practices. Practical work produced in the office includes from small products to large architectural and urban instagram: soomeenhahm.design design - experts in providing conceptual design solutions. address: 38, Vesage Court, 8a Leather Ln, London, UK, EC1N 7RE Currently the office is interested in the use of AR/VR to execute complex and precise digitally generated forms. Questioning tel: +44.20.3239.0322 the future role of human, robot, machine and computer. 4 5 Academic Projects R umented Date: Prese Research cluster 9 (RC9) is a unit of Architectural Design Program - a Location: re oo 12 month architectural masters course program in Bartlett UCL which is taught by Soomeen Hahm and Alvaro Lopez. This cluster each year Type: eserc Proecs produces series of unique design projects dealing with unique ways of Tutors: Sooee ro oe designing and construction based on computational design discourse. This year, the unit looked into augmented reality technique used in VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/294774272 design and fabrication process. Questioning the current state of high tech robotic and machine fabrication processes, trying to understand the future role of human intelligence and computer intelligence. 8 9 R Date: Location: re oo Type: eserc Proecs Tutosr: ie iri Sef ssi or Pic Sooee RC9 investigates in hybridized computational design methods. The work invites to look more closely at the relationships between design processes and the implementation of materials. The research works with materials physically and also through numeric means. With the advent of computerization, this particular spectrum between the digital and the manual can crudely be identified as an area between the computational and the analogue: self-generating geometries versus formal constructions. 10 11 U Date: Bartlett undergrad unit 2 (BSc Program) was ran by Aleksandria Rizova Location: re oo and Soomeen Hahm for 2 years during 2016-2018. The unit explores material driven research, researches on architectural spaces that are Type: eserc Proecs determined by material tectonics. Each students developed individual Tutors: esri io Sooee projects started from very specific material experiments, searching for tectonic and spacial qualities from those tests which then carefully scale d up to create meaningful and complex architectural proposals. The program was a 1 year long design studio for 2nd and 3rd year Bachelors degree students. 12 13 nt3 Date: AA Intermediate Unit 13 is taught by Soomeen Hahm during 2016-2018. Location: rciecr ssociio oo The unit developed different building projects based on computational design thinking, thinking about advancements in technology and latest Type: eserc Proecs shift in paradigms, explores and imagine how these changes will impact Tutors: Sooee on architecture and urbanism in near future. The unit looked at this issue from multiple perspectives, question and tries to answer/ foresee the ways we will design, construct and experience our world in near future based on the reading of the computational design history. The topics investigated includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, genetic algorithm, generative computation, modular robotics, multi-material 3d printing, robotic fabrication etc... 14 15 S Seoul Date: rese AA Visiting School Seoul is a annual workshop series directed by Jooeun Location: Seo ore Sung and Soomeen Hahm, hosted in Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea each year. Under the title of “Social Algorithms”, each year in this workshop, Type: eserc Proecs we divided our participants into 3-4 units to develop separated design Directors: ooe S Sooee projects to address the issue of Social design and Algorithmic design from different approach and perspectives to openly discuss and share ideas. The specific small unit taught by Soomeen Hahm with Aleksandar Bursac, Igor Pantic, HyunJae Nam investigated more specifically into algorithmic design approach, exploring urban design using data collection and visualization techniques. 16 17 S Sanai AA Visiting School Shanghai is a annual workshop series directed by Date: Tom Verebes where SD has been participated as teaching faculty since 2011. The workshop runs multiple units under a larger agenda regarding Location: oo computational design approach in urban design. The images shown in Type: eserc Proecs this page is a collection of work from the unit ran by Soomeen Hahm, Igor Directors: o erees Pantic and Wenqian Yang in August 2018. This year, we explored the ways Design Tutor: Sooee or Pic ei we build structures through the use of augmented reality technique. We chose to use PVC pipes and ready made joint elbows to assemble the structure. The design is highly depending on (Traveling Salesman Problem) algorithm. After forms are generated computationally, they could be executed in a very short time thanks to AR without a need of blue print. 18 19 Proposal for Beijing WaterCube SeriesAA Vsiting of Process School Beijing Unit1 (2016 December) S Beiin AA Visiting School Beijing has 8 years of history. Each year, this school Date: Prese explores specific industrial site in Beijing with real potential clients, Location: eii i government or authorities to discuss seriously and deeply how certain Type: eserc Proecs creative ideas can emerge to be able to have real and practical impact on decision makings on better transformation on the actual site. This Directors: o Sooee school each year has gained great support from the authorities of the site and openly discuss about how data based, computational design research can be more beneficial to real life issues. Especially focusing on data driven urban analysis and master planning, SD developed unique projects in this program. In 2016, our students proposed a time based transformation of the Beijing Water Cube over 50 2022 2058 years time through the understanding of the building as accumulation 2016 2108 of base geometry. In 2017, we proposed to understand the 751 factory Unit 1 (in)Formed Disposition | Soomeen HAHM , Zed HUANG & Hana HUANG Bubble Utopia | Shengran ZHENG, Sida YU, Libo MIAO, Hongchang DUAN AA VS Bejing 2016 Su(pe)r Real 3.0 | THAD & Beijing Water Cube 19 /31 through communicating in VR/AR environment using game engine. Game Design AA Vsiting School Beijing Unit1 (2017 December) Student: Dexter You Sheng NG, Ruby Ho Tung SO, Teng Wern NG, Qun He YIEW, Wei Keat POH 20 21 Online Educational Projects (since 2011) Workshop, Lecture & Conferences Online, Coding/ Scripting/ Modeling Tutorials as Programmer, Researcher & Designer Plethora project http:// plethora-project.com/education/ AA Visiting School Seoul, with Yonsei University Tsinghua University, Parametric Design Workshop as Director.