Degree Type
Honors Capstone Project
Date of Submission
Spring 5-1-2013
Capstone Advisor
Professor Francisco Sanin
Honors Reader
Assistant Professor Roger Hubeli
Capstone Major
Architecture
Capstone College
Architecture
Audio/Visual Component
no
Capstone Prize Winner
no
Won Capstone Funding
no
Honors Categories
Creative
Subject Categories
Architectural History and Criticism | Architecture | Urban, Community and Regional Planning
Recommended Citation
Jung, Sooji, "Fun-ctional Mega-Structure: A Formula for What Is Beyond Necessities in East Asian Cities" (2013). Honors Capstone Projects - All. 20.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/20
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Comments
This thesis poses two questions:
1. What is architecture?
2. How does architecture transform contemporary cities?
To the first question, architectural theories and precedents are researched and examined. For the second, a city was selected as testing ground for the project and the urban analysis and design resolution were produced to argue the validity of Fun-ctional Architecture. This book consists of 6 chapters. The first three argue what role an architectural project should play in the contemporary society by setting up the definition for fun-ctional architecture, outlining the premises, and analyzing the urban conditions in contemporary cities. The last three chapters propose the idea of mega-structure, re-conceptualized, has great potential and contemporary and future cities. An urban project is conceived based on this argument, thus providing the new typology in Seoul, South Korea, the testing ground for Megastructure in East Asian Cities.