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Digital Ecology – Generative City / Studio Soomeen Hahm

Name: Digital Ecology – Generative City / Studio Soomeen Hahm
Price: 350.00 USD
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This workshop will make participants think about the relationship between architecture and its context.

Instructors

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Soomeen Hahm

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2 courses5.0

Hanjun Kim

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1 course5.0

About this workshop

Digital Ecology – Generative City by PAACADEMY will make participants think about the relationship between the architecture and its context, the program and its environment, and the building and the ground by speculating how architecture responds to the changing landscape due to variation in the environment. The studio will run and lead by Soomeen Hahm and Hanjun Kim from Soomeen Hahm Design. 6-week-long project-based online studio by PAACADEMY.

What you will learn

Explore the relationship between architecture and its context.
Build digital landscapes in a virtual environment.
Generate urban designs on a virtual site.
Use Unity for architectural visualization.

Methodology

We will start by building a digital landscape in a virtual environment using Unity, then generate a city on the virtual site. The final proposal will be represented in an animated film, which will showcase the design of the building, the ground, and the context.

Course Content

6 Lessons

Important Notes

Week 1
Learn Unity C# script basic
Build terrain
Create flocking objects
Week 2
Generate geometries
Control geometries
Control camera
Week 3
Basic UI
Improve user experience and interaction
Make an animation of people and objects
Use AI navigation
Project Review
Week 4
Sound effect
Graphics improvement1: post-processing
Project Review
Week 5
Graphics improvement2: Adding minimap + UI design
Build PC/Mobile App
Project Review
Week 6
Review/Discussion of final work

Software & tools

Unity

Visual Studio

Instructors

Soomeen Hahm

2 Courses5.0

Soomeen Hahm is the founder of SoomeenHahm Design Ltd, a design researcher, educator, and architectural designer specializing in computational design and robotic fabrication. She earned her Bachelor of Architecture from Beijing Tsinghua University and her Master of Architecture from the Architectural Association’s Design Research Lab (DRL).

Her expertise spans generative and algorithmic design, multi-agent systems, interactive environments, behavioral simulations, and digital fabrication. Her recent research focuses on AR/VR, wearable machines, and human-computer interaction, advancing augmented design and construction methods.

Hahm has led design studios at the Architectural Association and The Bartlett (BPro AD), where she developed projects exploring design and construction by augmented humans. She has lectured and conducted workshops at institutions worldwide and contributed to online education platforms dedicated to digital design tools.

She worked as a designer at Zaha Hadid Architects and Zaha Hadid Design, contributing to some of the most iconic architectural and product designs of recent years. With a deep specialization in coding, digital simulations, and 3D modeling, Hahm continues to shape the future of computational design through research, teaching, and practice.