인간, 지능, 그리고 공간이 서로 감지하고 이해하며 영향을 주고받는 관계를 연구합니다. 우리는 공간을 고정된 배경이나 완성된 대상이 아니라, 인간의 신체와 감각, 행동과 인지, 사회적 맥락, 그리고 인공지능과 같은 기술이 지속적으로 상호작용하는 감응의 환경(tangible context)으로 바라봅니다. 건축과 공간설계를 기반으로 XR, 생체·행동 데이터, AI, 컴퓨테이셔널 디자인 및 디지털·물리적 제작 기술을 탐구하며, 인간과 비인간 지능이 공간을 어떻게 지각하고 사고하고 생성하며 변화시킬 수 있는지를 연구합니다. 이를 통해 더 친절하고, 즐겁고, 모두에게 열린 공간과 새로운 건축적 경험의 가능성을 탐색합니다.

Tangible Context investigates the relationships through which humans, intelligence, and environments perceive, understand, and shape one another. Rather than treating space as a static surrounding or autonomous object, we see it as a tangible context—an environment continuously shaped by bodies, perception, behavior, cognition, social conditions, and emerging forms of artificial intelligence. Grounded in architecture and spatial design, the Lab explores XR, physiological and behavioral sensing, AI, computational design, and digital-to-physical fabrication to examine how humans and non-human intelligences can perceive, reason about, generate, and transform environments. Through this research, we seek new possibilities for responsive, inclusive, embodied, and intelligent spatial experiences.

Lee Kyeong Jae Architecture Projects (lkjap) is a practice-based research unit affiliated with the College of Architecture at Myongji University (CAMU), working primarily at the scale of public and institutional buildings—transit, institution, healthcare, and neighborhood facilities—where architecture must reconcile heavy technical demands with the everyday rhythms of the people who live in it. The unit carries out design commissions and research as a mutual operation: built work sets the questions, and research answers them in terms that transcend beyond any one project.

Lee Kyeong Jae (AIA/KIRA) is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at CAMU and Principal of award-winning architecture practice lkjap established in 2016. He holds an M.Arch from the Yale School of Architecture and a B.S. in Architecture from Seoul National University, and is a registered architect in S. Korea(KIRA) and the United States (AIA, NCARB). Spanning over 17 years of practice, he has worked with prominent firms across nations including Iroje Architects & Planners, Samoo Architects & Engineers, Gensler, Huff+Gooden Architects, DTZ Korea and Kushman Wakefield. His belief in collective intelligence led to teach design studios for eight consecutive years at Hongik University and Seoul National University,  given the honor of receiving Tai Soo Kim Architecture Fellowship for teaching excellence in 2020.

Currently ongoing collaborations with Seoul National University Hospital Medical Imaging & Informatics Lab reflect his vast interests in public and institutional architecture meeting emerging technology: healthcare environments and the medical metaverse, digital fabrication, AI-assisted design, and the future of urban public space. He has served as a Public Architect for the Seoul Metropolitan Government run  Seoul Public Building Center(SPBC)  during 2019-2026 and sits on Seoul Institute of Registered Architects’ Research Committee ARIS since 2024.