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The site is located in a calm and quiet residential area. The small river that flows through the area blows a natural atmosphere to the neighborhood and changes the pattern of the Chicago original grids. With the unique grid system on the site, the other main focus of this project is the building circulation for users. The building needs separate circulation systems for different users; the members of the boat club, the employ-ers, and the visitors. The studies of the circulation and grid system finally leads to shape the building form.

PLAYfulGROUNDS

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Productive Landscape

Triple Zero Highrise

Toy Store

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Zero Net Emission Bldg

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Steel Frame Studio_IIT_Fall 2009Boathouse for the Lincoln Park Boat Club

Chicago, ILAdvisor Professor_Andy TinucciSamuel Horowitz Scholarship awarded

Dahee Sim_ M.Arch._UMich

The main concept of the project is POROSITY, which responds to the mild climate on the site. Each unit is designed to maximize its open façade, resulting in the C-formation of the unit groups on each side of the corridor. The progression of space from the public street to the unconditioned circulation ring of the complex onto more private courtyard corridors into the unit itself and culminating in the private terrace has connections to vernacular progressions of space in traditional courtyard dwellings within Buenos Aires.

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System(BIM) Studio_UMich_Winter2013Ciudad de Aire

Buenos Aires, ArgentinaAdvisor Professor_Heidi Bebee, Julia McMorroughTeam_ Peter Halquist, Da Hee Sim, Xiao Qin Teh

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PLAYfulGROUNDS introduces the concept of playing in the backyard of the city. Despite the Amtrak and Metra railroad yard functioning as an important role as the city’s main traffic infrastructural ground, the yard also creates a hard border between Roosevelt residential neighborhood and the commercial area.

One of the city’s stockyards, an infrastructural ground, has potential when it is recognized that the ground is not something to ‘pass by’ but a lively backyard to ‘stop by’. Its ability to gather and accumulate opens the potential to bind playing, learning, and socializing together: PLAYfulGROUNDS shall provide a playful atmosphere to children, widen the limit of empirical learning, and satisfy the recreational needs of the community.

Network Studio / Site Operations_UMich_Fall2012PLAYfulGROUNDS

Chicago, ILAdvisor Professor_Neal Robinson, Geoffrey Thün


Observatory for Drivers Family Activity Ground Young Adventure Ground Outdoor Performance Ground for Neighbors

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Advanced Studio_IIT_Fall2011Triple Zero High-rise in Chicago

Chicago, ILAdvisor Professor_Werner Sobek, Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido, Kerstein Puller, Timo Schmidt

In the compact city like Chicago, not every apartment can have a fantastic city view. To get open views as many as possible, the building has to face the open corridors between surrounding buildings. This project is focused on not only getting proper open views for the residents but also providing horizontal open corridors for the surrounding buildings. The roof gardens on every nine to twelve floors provide the chance to have outdoor activities for the residents. By having these gardens the building makes five horizontal open corridors in the city. As an active energy gaining system, Photovoltaic cells are installed on some part of the façade. The whole area of the façade with PV cells will be 3,240 m² (three 1,080 m² of East, South, and West side), creating 410.5 Kwh/m²/a (with the PV efficiency of 0.17).

Building Information Floor Area: 1,480 m² (Efficiency: 64%)Building Height: 257 m (Core Width: 25m, Aspect Ratio: 1/10)Primary Structure: Light weight concrete core with Steel outrigger system


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Advanced Studio_IIT_Spring2012The Center for the Humanities

Chicago, ILAdvisor Professor_Ron Krueck, Tom Jacobs Open House and Graduation 2012 exhibited

Model Photo - East Facade and Outdoor Entry Space

1st Floor Plan - Space for Conference/ Center Shop/ Lobby 3rd Floor Plan - Roof Garden/ Space for Displaying/ Space for Study Cross Section through Space for Studying/Working and Space for Displaying

South Elevation

View to the Roof Garden


The project seeks to focus on the spatial problems: modulation of space, amplification of light, resolution of scale, fulfilment of proportion, purpose of structure, and authenticity of material. The Center for the Humanities is developed on a generic South-East corner site in Chicago, which corresponds to an artist’s empty, 3-dimensional canvas. The project is developed to manipulate internal pressures that disrupt the original 30’ x 30’ structural grid. The final solution is to bring these forces into resolution retaining a harmonious composition.

Work_GridWerk Architecture_Spring 2013Akavickas Toy Store

Oshkosh, WIProject Manager_Jim WildRole_Intern_skin design, modeling, rendering

The10,000 SF Retail barely sits on the site. The wood macro trusses add the dynamic atmosphere to the Store. The zoning requires stone cladding. Porcelain panels, utilized as rain screen, wraps around the skin. The panels perpendicularly hung from an aluminum system which transfer the facade loads to the mullions of the glass.

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“The two boys are 11 and 12 years old and are home for the dragon festival. When they were asked about where they preferred to be they answered with ease to being at school. They found the village to be too boring and thought that the village could use a place where they can play and hang out when they are home. We asked these boys who they lived with when they were home and they answered their grandparents. This is a common occurrence in these villages because the parents move into the city to try and make money while the grandparents stay in the village to farm and take after the children. The boys did not seem to think that this was a strange way of being raised and liked their grandparents.”

- Interview excerpt from ‘RURAL CHINA, volume 2., BASEbeijing 2010’

Dahee Sim_ M.Arch._UMichStudio_UMich_Fall2013Village China Reading House

Pearl Spring Village, Zhenzhu, ChinaAdvisor Professor_Mary Ann Ray

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The project brings the movement of food production in the area. Since the large portion of Englewood is in a food desert zone, the goal of this project is to create an urban farm community in Englewood so that the fresh food is produced where it is consumed. To carry the products around the embankment, the railway will be re-constructed on the embankment by using both new and existing railroad structure. Thus, the farm land will be served by its own two-mile-long railroad system which is the way how this area was developed with local industries in the past.

Site Plan - east farm area ( herb farm)

View - to the east farm; visitors can walk around the farm area and enjoy watching the process of food production

View - railroad from the street level

Advanced Studio_IIT_Spring 2011Rethinking Sites of Production

Englewood, Chicago, ILAdvisor Professor_Mary Pat Mattson


dahee sim_ work samples - selected

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building circulation

unit groups

umichthe main concept

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unconditioned circulation

quiet residential area

commercial area

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