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For a long time, I have struggled with my origins, with my Korean-ness, with who I am. Whenever I finish a project, I often feel that there is still something that needs to be explained. In this thesis I attempt to explain precisely my ideas of design as these reflect my Korean-ness. Defining the city and its architecture as existing boundaries, I translate my Korean-ness and origins into an idea I call, metaphorically, "metamorphosis." This "metamorphosis" has to do with the way space is transformed from one thing into something else, as is the case when one walks from an airy Korean courtyard, in a traditional Korean house, into the house's shadowy interior. It is ambiguous, this metamorphic transformation, and for each individual visitor always a somewhat different experience, and sometimes a vastly different experience from that of anyone else, a familiarity with the unfamiliar nevertheless shaped by the uniquely personal prior life each visitor brings to the architectural space. / Master of Architecture

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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / Langmuir circulations in a coastal environment at an inner shelf site with strong tidal forcing were examined using a 4-month observation of high-resolution velocity profiles during the ONR-sponsored CBLAST-Low air-sea interaction experiment. Because of their potential contributions to mixing processes in the surface boundary layer, Langmuir circulations are important for naval operations such as ASW, MCM and Amphibious operations in littoral waters. A detection algorithm for upwelling / downwelling velocities due to Langmuir circulations was developed. Analyses focused on long-fetch, unstratified water column conditions with locally developed seas. The observations showed that strong Langmuir circulations greatly reduced water column shear arising from the tidally forced bottom boundary layer, while there was no significant effect from the strong tidal boundary layer on the formation of Langmuir cells. Long fetch conditions had the strongest vertical velocities with Langmuir number 0.1-0.4, while short fetch conditions have weaker vertical velocities with Langmuir number greater than 0.5. Cell vertical velocities were correlated with the water friction velocity, but penetration depths did not depend on forcing mechanisms. Spacing and penetration depths were correlated for increasing wind speed and wave heights whereas this correlation was not seen for constant high wind speed and wave heights. / Lieutenant Junior Grade, Turkish Navy