Sohyun Jin
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Recent Projects



Professional Experience

Associate Architect, AWA Architects (2021-2022)

Registered Architect, Korea Institute of Registered Architect (KIRA) (2019)

Project Manager at Ublo | Façade Designer, VS-A Korea (2018 - 2021)
Role:
Product R&D
: mold design, performance test, glass structure calculation, patent.
Communication
: website design, production management, façade design and consulting.
Research
: Smart Ublo; Ventilation Sensor Phase 1


Junior Architect, Designcamp Moonpark dmp (2015 - 2018)
Role:
Complex geometry 3D drafter
, shape optimization & rationalization, concept design, schematic design, design development, construction document

Junior Architect, The System Lab (2014)
Role:
Organic form finding
mainly with T-splines of Rhino plug-in, 3D printing with post-processing.

Building Engineer Qualification, Human Resources Development Service of Korea(2013)

Intern, Il Hoon Roh Studio (2014)


Awards and Scholarships

Outstanding Performance Commendation, Carnegie Mellon University (Spring 2024)

SoA Merit Scholarship, Carnegie Mellon University (2023 - 2025)

Grand Prize, “Urban Jungle Gym”, Posco Steel Design Festa, POSCO (2013)
Urban Jungle Gym
, in collaboration with two members, a steel design competition
Role: Leader, speaker team arrangement, design development, coordination.

First Place, “A Way to Han River “, B.Arch Graduation Thesis, Yonsei University (2013)
A way to Han river
, Solo work

Honorable Mention, “Overhead Tensegrity”, Korean Structural Engineers Competition (2012)
Overhead tensegrity
, in collaboration with two members, a competition of structure design
Role: Design development, production.

Full Scholarship, National Engineering Scholarship, Korea Student Aid Foundation (KOSAF) (2008-2013)

Full Scholarship, Yonsei Eagle Scholarship, Yonsei University (2008)


Lectures and Conference Presentations

Guest Instructor, “Kinetic Architecture”, Soongsil University, Korea (Nov. 2021)

Guest Instructor, “Introduction to Architecture Design Practice”, Soongsil University, Korea (April 2021)
Webinar Speaker, “Personalized Ventilation Windows R&D”, Zak World of Façades, Virtual Conference (Aug 2020)
On behalf of VS-A Korea, Delievering a presentation of
VS-A Group research project
, the customized design window Ublo and Ufo, named after Uf=0, meaning u-value for frame is Zero.
Conference Exhibitor, “Ublo and UF0, two innovative façade components” , Glass Performance Days(GPD), Tampere, Finland (June 2019)
Participated as a UBLO engineer at an expo booth
Introduced the system to visitors, built networks for future partnerships in related industries, and sought opportunities with distributors abroad.


Publications

Sohyun Jin. “The Works of Rookies.” A&C Architecture Magazine vol.391, Dec. 2013, pp.191.
One of six selected graduation theses
of 2014

Sohyun Jin. “2013 Posco Steel Design Festa.” C3 KOREA vol.349 supplement, Sep. 2013, pp.16-17.
A winning design proposal
of the Posco steel design competition


Courses and Workshops

Workshop: Digital Form Finding, “Virtual Actuality” (2012)
Algorithmic design
workshop via Processing
Yonsei University

Design Studio: “Incremental Bridges” (2011)
Design proposal
in Batam, Indonesia


Exhibitions

Exhibition, “Urban Jungle Gym”, as a competition winner, Posco Center Building and Posco A&C Building, Seoul (2013)
Space frame configurations with reusable units


Exhibition, “Folding chair”, Mirae Asset Center1, Seoul (2013)
Foldable cardboard chair


















Ventilation Sensor: Smart Ublo system

Sensor networks and calibration

2019 2022

@UBLO.Inc

Participant

Role: Coordinator, Tester

Collaboration:
Robert-jan van Santan(Technical director),
Naree Kim(Director), Sowon Choi,
Christophe Szukala, Hugo van Santen(Sensor Designer),
Jiye Moon




During 2019-2020, Our team joined an R&D program, “Smart Ublo; Ventilation Sensor Phase 1”, as the Didimdol Startup Growth Project, granted by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups in South Korea. It was for calculating the capacity of buoyancy ventilation with a ublo window and developing its IoT sensor to find occupants’ comfort zones by natural ventilation.

There was another opportunity to have joint research with Yonsei University on “Zero energy building package engineering advanced track”, which reinforced the experiment by comparing the numeric values from CFD simulation and on-site experiment data.




Ventilation sensor development scenario

1. Calibration of Hugo Sensor based on valid data
2. Optimized positions of sensors inside Ublo
3. Locating Mesh sensors to find valid data for occupants
4. Building ventilation map with a Ublo window




Sensor concept: when do we open & close operable window for ventilation?




Hugo sensor, designed by Hugo van Santen

Preliminary research for gauging the UBLO’s ventilation performance


Phase 1 -1
The performance of this study was to compare the buoyancy ventilation performance of Ublo windows. Its flow equations with finite methods were realized with Solidworks flow simulation, done by Christophe Szukala at VS-A HK.


Phase 1-2
Comparing the buoyancy ventilation of ublo with the general casement window. The CFD model was callibrated by the actual values as a part of joint research program with Yonsei University.