STUDIO EMPATHY
[News]
10/ 2024: The story of the library design got featured in Dezeen, UK.
10/ 2024: studio [em]pathy is excited to reveal our new and improved website.
08/ 2024: The library project has been featured in Space Magazine, South Korea.
06/ 2024: New library designed by studio [em]pathy recently opens to the public
ABOUT
Founded in 2022, studio empathy is a New York-based award-winning design agency aspires to reshape contemporary life of human beings and recreate various cultural resources existing on our planet through interdisciplinary practices in architecture and interior design, expanding to other design fields including branding, furniture, industrial, graphic, media design and even art works, achieved by the idea of Design of Things emerging from emotional network among people, environments and cultures. studio empathy explores intrinsic in manmade Things, optimized fusion of imaginary possibility and pragmatic experiment, therefore approaches design as Reciprocal Consequence with a belief that a good design is implemented and finally sustained by interaction with people and its environment where it belongs.
studio empathy has been striving to use design as an interfacing agent among various spatial dimensions in the built environment. Forging versatility of design to reconcile and integrate urban grids, landscape, ground, buildings and interiors, studio empathy is dedicated to creating spaces where the client’s visions and demands materialize, and the resident and the community experience the power and grace of space. studio empathy’s unique design approach comes from an innate understanding of materials and pursuing conceptual clarity through spatial innovations. We believe design can improve our everyday lives and transform them into something extraordinary. We focus on expanding the reach of design through practice, education, and multidisciplinary collaboration.
studio [em]pathy 공감능력(共感能力).
의뢰인과 공감하고 사용자와 대중과 공감하며 도시환경 나아가 사회문화와 공감하는 사물과 공간을 구상하고 실현합니다.
LEAD DESIGNER
Choi, Changhaak 최창학 | Founding & Creative Director
Changhaak Choi is a Founding & Creative Director and leads all scope of design solutions in architecture, interior, furniture, graphics and art works. His education includes a Master of Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP, a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree in architectural design received in Korea. He has over twenty years’ professional experience and has been establishing professional distinction in design industries based on his interests on “reciprocity” in design.
His design recognized with numerous design competition winning entries and awards including Would Architecture News (WAN) Awards, Matthew W. Del Gaudio Memorial Award, and nominated as 100 Architects of the year 2019 in Korea by UIA and appointed Next Generation Design Leaders by Korea Institute of Design Promotion. He is the fellow member of SOM fellowship and his works exhibited in New York, Seoul and Madrid, and published extensively in leading design journals and books worldwide.
SELECTED PRIOR PROJECT EXPERIENCE
SK hynix America Office, NY, US
SK Telecom TMT Investment Flagship Office, NY, US
Library for Korean Cultural Center New York, NY, US
Downtown Broadway Hotel Development, NY, US
5th Avenue Residential Tower Development, NY, US
Consulate General of the Republic Of Korea, Honolulu, US
Hyundai Department Store Group Headquarters, Seoul, Korea
Nexen R&D Center, Seoul, Korea
Hyundai Heavy Industries Headquarters, Suwon, Korea
National Assembly Communication Building, Seoul, Korea
Incheon International Airport Terminal 2 Phase 2, Incheon, Korea
Olympic Gymnastics Arena Renovation, Seoul, Korea
University of Greenwich Stockwell Street Development, London, UK
New York University Abu Dhabi Campus, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Columbia University New Business School Proposal, New York, NY, US
UCSF Institution for Regeneration Medicine Research Center, San Francisco, CA, US
Claremont McKenna College North Campus, City of Claremont, CA, US
Museum of Korean Art (MOKA), NY, US
National Museum of Agricultural Experience, Suwon, Korea
Board Art Museum Proposal, Los Angeles, CA, US
The Cleveland Museum Of Art Phase 2 Expansion, Cleveland, OH, US
Mina Zayed Waterfront Development, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Sejong 2-2 M2 Block Masterplan, Sejong, Korea
New Stanford Hospital Masterplan, CA, US
Battersea Power Station Redevelopment Master Plan, London UK