Previous Work

Song E Han has worked for two of award-winning companies in the world; Perkins Eastman and MMK+. She was a former Lead Architect/Designer of Perkins Eastman in New York. She worked closely with most renowned private developers and public agencies. She also accomplished design competition awards during working in the MMK+ in Seoul.

Industry City @ Perkins Eastman

Client : Industry City

Versatile light manufacturing space was created from the existing industrial-scale floor plates on the buildings’ upper floors, with retail and public amenities at street level. Innovation Alley, an experiential passageway framed with industrial ‘wickets’, connects the site’s primary finger-like buildings, and creates public courtyards and event spaces from the loading bays between them. Raised sidewalks along loading docks, safer crossings on busy Third Avenue, and an enhanced Second Avenue streetscape are human-scale, pedestrian-friendly modifications that improve circulation, link with public transportation, and leverage proximity to nearby Piers Park and the waterfront. The Food Hall provides a communal site for interaction among tenants, and a gourmet destination for area residents. Bold way-finding graphics evoke the complex’s neo-industrial ethos and create a strong sense of place, while connecting the disparate structures within the massive campus. Industry City is the largest of several innovation hubs along Brooklyn’s re-developed waterfront. Its prime industrial infrastructure and diverse network of creators and entrepreneurs have generated 6,000 local jobs, with a long-term goal of bringing 20,000 manufacturing and tech jobs back to New York City by 2025.

New York Wheel @ Perkins Eastman

Client : New York Wheel LLC

The NY Wheel project site is located directly west of the Stadium along the St. George waterfront. The project proposes a new and compelling integrated waterfront site to attract both tourists and residents of all ages for a unique experience that includes retail, entertainment, restaurant and open space amenities, and most importantly an up-close experience of the Observation Wheel. The New York Wheel will be the world’s largest at 625 feet in height; it promises to be an important new component of the extended city skyline, and is the centerpiece of our site. The other program components of the project include a 950 car parking garage with bus parking, an approximately 113,000 square foot (sf) Terminal Building that will house restaurant, retail, exhibition and theater space, and an extensive landscape and sustainability program located on the roof of the parking garage and terminal building that will be designed to provide new, high quality publicly accessible open space that complements the wheel while reinforcing its role as the marquee of the Staten Island waterfront and the harbor.

Reconfigured Ground @ MMK+

Client : Seoul Metropolitan Gov.

Nodeul Maeul

Nodeul Island is a wild island in the middle of Metropolis. It has been isolated from Seoul and Citizen for over 40 years. How can we incorporate the wilderness of island and Seoul’s musical culture? How can we promote experience of ecology and spontaneous and vibrant urban lifestyle? Nodeul Island needs new land - reconfigured ground. Building a new ground layer from Hangang bridge to Han River, it catalyzes diverse musical activities - creation, performance, and events, and connects the entire island to experience nature and outdoor activities. This is a cultural ground, Maeul, where people can actively participate to design their own - work places, small shops, alleys, garden and Madang.

Pilgrimage Walk @ MMK+

Client : Samcheok City

Yisabu Dokdo Memorial Park

DISCOVERING ACCUMULATED LAYERS OF HISTORY The project site (Mt.Yukhyang and the surrounding land) is an important place where one can find a series of traces of historical events related to Dokdo Island and the General Yisabu who first conquered Usanguk in Silla Dynasty. The existing relics from different periods (Silla and Chosun Dynasty, Colonial period and modern era) and the unique value of the site provides an opportunity for generating a place that represents the true story of Dokdo and the General’s achievement. “Pilgrimage Walk” aims to create this special district into an integrated public park to commemorate the history of Dokdo and the General Yisabu’s triumph, while appreciating the various other historic layers of the region. By providing a continuous trail along the symbolically (and physically) crafted layers of space, visitors may explore and learn the significant value of historical events. As part of the larger loop, the Yisabu Dokdo Memorial Park (located on the east side of the Mt. Yukhyang) continuously provides and enhances its unique experience inside and outside, where the spaces are carefully shaped with water, light and landscape.

Jamsil Odyssey @ MMK+

Client : Seoul Metropolitan Gov.

Jamsil Residential Complex 5

CITY TO STROLL, CITY TO FACE While modern Seoul continues to change and evolve, the positive feelings of connection, whether with our surroundings or one another, remains constant. So this project starts with place-making within a unique urban context including mega-scale amusement park and the iconic Lotte tower, yet this re-design for the Jamsil 5 residential complex truly aims to reflect our everyday life. A city becomes rich in vitality when its individuals can meet casually, communicate spontaneously, or remain as flâneurs. This diversity is also the incubator of individual expression, and the Jamsil Odyssey attempts to capture that accumulated journey, and be where residents yearn to work, relax, meet, and share. POROSITY AND PUBLIC REALM We have learned that our previously typical city landscape—with its gated apartment complexes, privatized light, and one-way views—detached us from feeling present in our locations. So the Jamsil Odyssey optimizes a new urban landscape through carefully organizing three-dimensional programming along the underground, the ground and the sky-above. Towers, with their elongated vertical masses, follow the directionality of surrounding context. They maximize the openness of the block, while their subtle and elegant façades sets the canvas of the city. The porous ground allows pedestrians to elevate among the multi-layered community, and experience unique city views. By locating the vehicular traffic underground, the pedestrian experience is enhanced through a continuous integration with landscape. This transforms the apartment complex into an intimate village cluster with forests, hills, lawns, and orchards.

PLACE-MAKING THROUGH DIVERSITY AND DIMENSIONALITY The programmatic make-up has been carefully curated for three-dimensionality, and developed into seven types of urban experiences. ‘Mall’ is a diversified place where citizens can freely experience commercial facilities, open space, and terraced residences. It aims to activate the city-facing streetscape, and the community park. ‘Square’ is a sunken plaza at Jamsil intersection, linking the subway station, and the major underground retail complex, while also serving as its own commercial hub, convention center, and culture centerpiece for major city events. ‘Hybrid Tower’ is a mixed-use vertical complex at Jamsil Intersection, with large residential units, service residences, offices, and a hotel. Its public urban sky-lounge at its apex is the signature of the Jamsil Odyssey, and will become a popular destination within Seoul. ‘Hall’ is a large interior space with arranged SOHO type residential, business, and commercial facilities. From local daily markets

TONGYEONG Dock City @ MMK+

Client : Korea Land & Housing Corporation

Re-Structure, Work with Local, and Own & Manage

For last half century, our Society and its urban policy has rarely considered the decline of our city. Failure of our shipping Industry has also brought numerous problems in much different ways and TongYeong’s regeneration development is the first opportunistic project dealing with this challenge. But still our city will face constant urban problems and we may not easily expect such development with large amount of public fund. We should not see this as one chance resolution but it should be a sustainable framework that could resolve future risks. Shin-A old dockyard site is an attractive land with its grand size and beautiful surrounding landscape. However, it is difficult to transform the land through land purchase and physical development solely. Just like the time when shipyard workers had an ownership of the land and overcome difficult days, TongYeong must utilize this land as valuable sustainable resource. RE-STRUCTURE, WORK WITH LOCAL, OWN & MANAGE is three strategies that wants to create a valuable and attractive place with opportunities for local economy.