IYAGI CONVERSATIONS
IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT


BRYAN KIM

















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IYAGI is Korean for CONVERSATION.

Conversation is the exchange of ideas, information, and emotions between two entities. In architecture, conversations manifest as dynamic interactions across multiple scales, from materiality to urbanism.

Listed projects serve as mediators that integrate diverse scales (human / non-human) into a cohesive whole. They shape conversations between users, materials, spaces, urban lives, and environments, fostering a dynamic built environment. Through design, buildings shape their context, facilitating dialogues between past and present, tradition and innovation, the built and the organic.

These ongoing interactions ensure that architecture remains a living, responsive medium—one that continuously negotiates relationships between people, places, and the external forces that shape them. Therefore, my projects are not merely static objects but active participants of an ever-evolving conversation in our built environment.











conversations with  
 1. The City
2. The Water
3. The Heat
4. The Wood

UBER PLANARITY

conversations with the wood
  • Spring 2022

  • Instructor: David Jaehning 
Uber Planarity embraces the structural and environmental possibilities of Cross Laminated Timber construction through a simple and efficient design that takes advantage of the planar qualities of CLT.

The design approach began from investigating the material qualities of Cross Laminated Timber to maximize the efficiency of wood utilization. With a focus on its planar qualities, all shear walls and columns run along the y-axis while all beams run along the x-axis to form a balanced system.

The skinny shape of the site resulted in two different circulation types based on the program. The public programs are shaped by an external circulation system to captivate social interactions within. On the other hand, private programs are shaped by an internal circulation system to create clear views of the cityscape out the windows.













Rhythmic Beam Depths
This project is a mid-rise, mixed use complex including short-stay housing and commercial/retail spaces for social activation of Atlanta. Through the variance of beam depths based on programs, the programs offer a sense of privacy or openness.

Deeper glulam beams allow opportunities for column/shear wall omissions to provide maximum openness on retail levels. Likewise, shallow beams and shear walls on residential levels foster a sense of privacy in units.