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kamily house2025 architecture

single-family house
Hanoi, Vietnam
built

credit:
Art Steel (steel), DAO.CC (concrete), Daisy Ziyan Zhang (photography and video), GiaLong (timber), HGAA (architect), Hoang Le (photography), Jieun Jun (design), KAMiLY(client), Taewon Park (design), and naïve practice (Il Hwan Kim)

divisare, archdaily
kham thien facade renovation2025architecture

renovation
Hanoi, Vietnam
design in progress

credit:
Maily Style(Client), 324 Praxis, and naïve practice (Il Hwan Kim)
cave house2023architecture

single-family house
Hanoi, Vietnam
unbuilt

credit:
KAMiLY(Client), Taewon Park, and naïve practice (Il Hwan Kim)
deep time and material circulation2024architecture

landscape
Seoul, Korea
unbuilt

credit:
Archiplay, and naïve practice (Il Hwan Kim)
Carlos Irijalba, The Surface, 2013.
sown plywood2025architecture

pavilion
Bethel Woods, NY
unbuilt

credit:
Catherine Wilmes, Eduardo Cilleruelo Terán, and naïve practice (Il Hwan Kim)
self-supporting inflatable formwork
2024 research

construction technology and design

Cornell Design Teaching Fellowship Research  Fund
2024

credits:
Daisy Ziyan Zhang (movie, photography), Evan Levy, Weizi Song, and naïve practice (Il Hwan Kim)

paper (acadia 2025)
almost useful tools
2024 exhibition

John Hartell Gallery, Cornell University 
Ithaca, NY

credits:
Daisy Ziyan Zhang (movie, photography), Evan Levy, Nicolas Moussallem, Ray Wang, Weizy Song, and naïve practice (Il Hwan Kim)

Cornell AAP
geomorphic concrete:
dissolution for forming2023
thesis

MIT
Il Hwan Kim (author), Skylar Tibbits (advisor), Sheila Kennedy, Mohamed Ismail (reader)

MIT DSpace
3d concrete printing frame structure in granular medium2024
research

MIT
Il Hwan Kim 

paper (caadria 2024)
rapid gradient density concrete fabrication_injection gypsum printing2024
research

MIT
Il Hwan Kim

paper (caadria 2024)
naive practice LLC
2025