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Junha is currently thinking about a form of architecture that challenges assumptions about use and appropriateness...
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Run For A Bit
2024
FALL 2024 / MIT Option II
[thinking about ways to make running more purposeful and low-tech; what would it mean for building components to become mobile, leave home, and then come back home?]
Today, we run, sprint, and walk on high-tech machines to exercise, simply running from and to nowhere. Run For A Bit proposes a low-tech running gym that mainly functions as a home base for runners and a family of appendages - mobile auxiliary infrastructures. These appendages are temporarily deployed to become a part of the site’s larger running track, race, or event, and serve the wider running community and the general public.
When the appendages are away, dispersed across the landscape, they each serve essential functions of a runner’s journey: hydration, restrooms, shade, viewpoints, rest stops, and wayfinding. Over time, They gather different uses and physical traces - wear, bruises, stickers, and marks.
When the appendages are home, and parked at the building, they become a part of the building’s utility as circulation and furniture. Here, they are replenished, maintained, and cleaned, yet forever imprinted with memories and marks.