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Atelier 58l0, founded in 2022, is a collective of designers based in New York and Tokyo with a mission to expand the culture of architecture to the public. Drawing inspiration from how paintings, photographs, and films reshaped our perception of reality, they see virtual reality as the next canvas for reimagining three-dimensional spaces as works of art.

They use virtual reality not merely as a display of technology, but as a medium to bring ambitious, radical designs to life—projects that may not be built in the physical world, yet can still be experienced in their full scope. Atelier 58l0 challenges traditional approaches to architecture by creating immersive environments that allow people to engage with bold, visionary spaces in new and meaningful ways.

The aim is to make these experiences available and accessible to a wide audience.

  • Co-founder / Director

    Geri Roa Kim is currently an M.Arch II candidate at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where she is also a member of the Harvard Innovation Lab. She co-founded Atelier 58l0 and serves as its Director while also partnering at SaulKim Studio.

    Roa's architectural work explores the intersection of technology and spatial design, with a particular focus on virtual reality as a medium for architectural innovation and education.

    A graduate of Pratt Institute with highest honors, Roa received the Arthur Edwards Award for Outstanding Scholarship and won the Best Thesis Prize for her work titled Life, Death, and the Eternal Recurrence of Architecture. She also minored in Museum and Gallery Practice, studied Art as Global Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and was the recipient of the Eleanor Allwork Scholarship from AIA New York. Her past professional experience includes serving as an educator at the AIA New York | Center for Architecture.

  • Co-founder / Lead Designer

    Kelvin Hu is the Co-founder and Lead Designer of Atelier 58l0.

    Kevlin’s design interests are rooted in exploring the dynamic and sentient qualities of architecture, concerning elements of time, duration, and sequence. He is captivated by the mobile components of architecture, which come in the form of elevators, escalators, vehicles and modular parts. His Best Degree Project Prize thesis project, Life, Death, and the Eternal Recurrence of Architecture challenges the static nature of existing preservation strategies and proposes the strategy of replication to create ‘save as’ versions of the original. Thus architecture becomes a physical timeline.

    Kelvin is currently a Master of Architecture II candidate at Harvard GSD, having completed his Bachelor of Architecture at Pratt Institute. Previously, he has worked at the Store Development department at Giorgio Armani, and at Risland US - the developer for Skyline Tower in Long Island City. He also teaches at the Center for Architecture in New York during the summers.

  • Lead Designer

    Emmet Sutton is an alumni and undergraduate professor at Pratt Institute. At Pratt he received the AIA New York Center for Architecture Design Scholarship. His Honors degree project, Bypassage, contemplates the corridor, its history, and potential future. The project comprises a variety of new types of corridors interlinked to create a peripatetic medical school appended to the existing Woodhull Medical Center. In concert with his thesis, this line of corridor exploration was also exhibited at the Center for Architecture as part of an event organized and curated by Atelier 58l0.

    Emmet recently completed a residency on governor’s island with the Institute of Public Architecture. His work with the IPA builds on Bypassage, revolving around the political and economic implications of the corridor, namely lobbying and labor.

    Previously he has worked with Shohei Shigematsu at OMA NY, Rem Koolhaas at OMA EU, and Steven Holl at SHA. Currently, Emmet operates TUSK, an architecture office, with his two partners Safa Mehrjui and Tyler Javitz.

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  • Lead Designer

    Youngdae Song is currently a Senior Designer at Sou Fujimoto Architects. His architectural backgrounds lie in various international environments such as Seoul, New York, Mexico City, and Tokyo. Youngdae has been participating in diverse key projects from pavilion to masterplan scale with a notable contribution to the Winning International Competition “Shenzhen Reform and Opening-up Exhibition Hall” as a Core Designer.

    Youngdae’s thesis project titled “Liquid Playground: Experiential Transparency” was published in The Korean Institute of Culture Architecture with an award. The project investigated a new type of spatial relativity to re-define and transform Korean architecture’s historical elements eave and landscape into fluid shading spaces and experiential fields. His project “Non-objects: Hidden Closet” was exhibited in Luis Barragán’s Casa Gilardi and Liga DF in Mexico City. His group work “Adaptable Terrain” was also installed in Zaha Hadid’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul. Youngdae gave a lecture titled “Beyond Sceneries” for the AIAS Pratt Lecture Series with his own analysis and deep understanding of Japanese architecture.

    Youngdae holds a Master's degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and Bachelor of Architecture from Seoul National University of Science and Technology.

  • Technical Designer

  • Technical Designer