Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2017 i Space

In the early 2000s, many countries actively promoted a new urban development encompassing the digital industry and advanced technology. Cities known variously as a Smart City, U-City, and Digital City were at the centre of such developments. The DMC in South Korea is an IT-and-media-industry-centred new town. Since its development in 2002, major companies have moved in, and the shape of the city has now stabilized. However, how can a Smart City last long faced with a rate of industrial innovation that continues to advance? While it is getting almost tiresome to hear stories about the Fourth Industrial Revolution, what would the future of these cities – which are all outcomes of the Third Industrial Revolution – look like? ‘2017 DMC International Conference’ was held on Sep. 28 at DMC…

Hosted together by Auri, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and HUG, an urban regeneration seminar ‘The Frontline of Urban Regeneration in Private and Public Partnership: Change & Resolve’ was held on Sep. 27. The parties spoke of the lessons taken from the and current state of Japan, who had an early interest in urban regeneration and who took the initiative ahead of us. In the case where a project carried out not by the government, but by the private sector succeeds, this became a unique opportunity for looking across the broad spectrum of urban regeneration projects. In Part 1, Yoon Zoosun (associate research fellow, Auri) explained that ‘from 2017, a working age population is decreasing while an aged population is increasing’, so ‘it is unavoidable for tax amount to…

With the opening of the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism on 2 September, the Donuimun Museum Village, that had long been hidden under a veil, was finally revealed to the public. The one-century-old site of the Donuimun Museum Village is composed of residential buildings dating back to the Japanese colonial period and to the 1980s, some of which were changed into a cluster of restaurants in the 1990s. The Seoul Metropolitan Government allowed them to continue with their aim of preserving the entire village. The decision was made to keep the current urban organisation and to retain cultural traces without causing too great a rate of damage. Both their intentions and directions seem optimal. I am wondering whether they have selected the best processes and created the best possible…

I prefer the concave to the convex, dented traces to lofty forms. A balanced architecture half buried in land is always far more appealing than the one protruding from flat land. Concavity is directly connected with the earth, and, as such, it is natural, sometimes even becoming a part of nature. Convexity is also based on the earth, but it wants to overcome the land, and sometimes to be isolated from it, as if Sebitseom (Floating Island) floating on the Han River. There are a lot of projects that have fallen through at the planning stages, but I felt sadness in the case of the Baekje Historical Museum. The museum was supposed to be in the middle of the mountain Song-san in Gongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, where seven tumuli of the Baekje…

Architect: Heatherwick Studio Group leader: Mat Cash Project leader: Stepan Martinovsky Design team: Simona Auteri, Ruggero Bruno Chialastri, Yao Jen Chuang, Francis Field, Sarah Gill, Xuanzhi Huang, Changyeob Lee, Julian Liang, Débora Mateo, Stefan Ritter, Luke Snow, Ondrej Tichý, Meera Yadave Location: Cape Town, South Africa Programme: museum Site area: 9,476m² Exhibition space: 6,039m² Height: 60m Structural engineer: Arup, Sutherland Mechanical and electrical engineer: Arup, Solution Station Construction: WBHO Design period: 2012 – 2017 Construction budget: 30 milion GBP Client: Victoria & Alfred Waterfront Holdings (Pty) Ltd. SPACE: It seems to have been a brilliant idea not to remove the grain silos that have been a town icon for more than 90 years, and instead to use them as a main design feature in your gigantic atrium space. Was…

The Chilbo Culture Center for Youth (Chilbo Culture Center) which was planned to vitalize youth culture in the West Suwon district, stands alone on a large site located in a recently formed park. Because the site is devoid of surrounding elements to respond to, as in a city, the architect may have had difficulty devising an idea for the design to best address the site and its surrounding environment. Possibly, because of this difficulty, the existing public architecture nearby is composed of divergent forms that do not harmonize with the park and the surrounding area, and therefore aggravate the impression of the overall landscape. Chilbo Culture Center takes on a tidy plane, an orderly mass composition, plates that emphasize the lateral, and uses selective materials to restore order and stability…

Conversation is anti-linguistic. The goals of language, which has its normative system in thought, and the goals of conversation, which is subjective and emotionally-expressive, are mutually different. Because of this, the combination of the two creates difficulty between expression and interpretation in art. However, there are individuals who are digging out new values in art from this narrow chasm created by this disparity. Ik-Joong Kang, who has been displaying installation works on the Korean language, is such an example. Kang, who is now renowned following his installation works at the Shanghai Expo Korean Booth in 2010, has showcased from time to time how words can go beyond words by displaying the variations between sign and symbols within the normative system that words abide by. The 2017 Arko Representative Artist Exhibition…

Is the relationship between me and my surroundings okay, or not? A big exhibition in the central square of Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) questions our relationships with our environment. It is the theme of the ‘Seoul Design Week 2017’. Each year, Seoul Design Week suggests the realm and role of design from various themes. For this year, with the keyword ‘relation’, the enterprise defines the role of design revealed through different kinds of relationships and examines key examples. At the main exhibition, Being Faust- Enter Mephisto, which borrows its theme from Goethe’s Faust, one’s inner side is brought out through a game, and Woowa Brothers Corp., who are leaders in horizontal business culture, present everyday corporate culture via a video. There also are other design examples that help to form…

On Oct. 16, the ICON Party_ Vol. 012 was held at Incheon Art Platform. This event, which was held as a part of Incheon Architecture Festival, selected for its theme ‘Architecture of Hope’ in connection with last year’s theme ‘The 4th Industrial Revolution and the Future of Architecture’. Jahn JinSam (publisher, WIDE Architecture Report) explained that ‘four themes under the theme “Architecture of Hope”, currently emerging as issues or garnering interest within the architecture scene, were selected’. For each of the themes, productive and vocal individuals in their 30s to 40s were chosen as their respective representatives—Song Jongryeil (editor, Architectural Critics Association), Lee Eunkyung (principal, EMA Architects & Associates), Lee Hyokjun (professor, Inha Technical College), and Woo Jihyun (partner, OFFICE ARCHITEKTON). Lee Hyokjun gave a basic explanation of 3D printing.…

The Seoul Metropolitan Government opened the Seoul Upcycling Plaza as an upcycling cultural space last Sep. The government built a large-scale building on a gross area of 16,540m², with five-stories above ground and two-stories underground on the site of the former Jungnang Sewage Treatment Center, Yongdab-dong, Seongdong-gu, which is relatively underdeveloped. The city of Seoul planned to use this building as a base for an upcycling town, involving the whole area of the 500,000m² Jungnang Sewage Treatment Center, the Janghanpyeong Used-car Market and the Seoul Sewerage Science Museum. The Seoul Upcycling Plaza is run by the Seoul Design Foundation. On the first basement floor, there is a treatment space used to clean and sort secondhand articles and a ‘Materials Bank’, to sell materials for upcycling, such as worn-out clothes, discarded…

What was the First Instance of Architecture? The theme of the 14th Arumjigi exhibition—a project which every year selects a specific theme related to living culture (such as food, clothing, shelter)—was shelter. Compared to past exhibitions on the theme of ‘shelter’, what was quite remarkable about this year’s project was that it sought to question the essential functions of architecture. In the past three exhibitions on this theme—‘Telling New Stories in a Traditional Korean House’ (2008), ‘Furniture: Discovering Practicality in Tradition’ (2011), ‘Doors: Boundaries of Communication’ (2014)—Arumjigi revealed a modern approach to reinterpreting traditional furniture, fixtures or architectural components. However, the exhibition’s introduction reveals that this year’s exhibition is an ‘investigation into the essential actions in the making of space’. While a trivial question, returning to the essential questions regarding…

The Naver Imae Nursery School, established on the eastern edge of Bundang, is a nursery school that teaches 300 students. With a college scale garden, a slope that extends more than ten metres across the site, and the requirement of a 20% legal building coverage ratio within a green area, a design plan for a new type of nursery school was initiated. Utilizing the naturally graded site, the building was organised into three levels: the parking lot and support facility on the lowest level, and the nursery facility on the upper two levels. The children were given a safe school where its confines accommodate all parking demands and bus turns. By using the sloped site in an efficient way, an underground space of the same conditions as the ground…

 The Coconut House is a detached house on the few remaining lots of land in Pangyo Housing Area. While its exterior is finished by grey hard stone like as coconut shell, the interior is white and sweet as coconut flesh. The building has a courtyard that maintains the original shape of a square. At the end of internal traffic line, which starts at the entrance, there is a master bedroom for a couple. Walking through the living room, there is a room for a grandmother in the neighbouring a stair hall on the first floor, and rooms for children are on both sides of the second floor staircase. The opportunity to encounter and greet each other is naturally created when walking towards the space for the couple. The master bedroom…

 Architect: Kim Junsung + Architecture Studio hANd (Park Youngil) Design team: Chae Jua, Kim Younsun, Kim Yeokyung, Kim Jisung, Kim Yesun Location: Duseong-ri, Maengdong-myeon, Eumseong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea Programme: factory, warehouse Site area: 22,646.30m² Building area: 4,829.36m² Gross floor area: 4,715.95m² Building scope: 1F Parking: 27 Height: 9.84m Building to land ratio: 21.05% Floor area ratio: 20.56% Structure: RC, steel Exterior finishing: exposed concrete, aluminium sheet, glass, polycarbonate plate Interior finishing: exposed concrete, gypsum board, timber, CRC board Structural engineer: Jungang Structural Engineers Mechanical engineer: Yeongdong Engineering Electrical engineer: IS Construction Construction: SamyoungMEC Design period: Apr. 2014 – Apr. 2015 Construction period: Apr. 2015 – Dec. 2016 Client: XIOM Inc. (Kim Yongyeol)…

The concept of time holds a special significance for architects. The architect is the designer of the everyday stages in the lives of those bound to a single point upon the axis of time, yet he simultaneously possesses a heartfelt desire to render this figuration eternal. The element of the eternal here signifies the natural and unhindered communication between the present, the past and the future. Eternal Flame ‘Only the Brave can get the Beauty.’ The most contested issue concerning the Cheongun Residence is noted in the fact that the building returns to the ‘arch’, a tool which has established itself as one of the most important foundations in the ‘act of building’ and in the tectonic in architecture. The architect Kim Hyundai has used the arch, which has originally…

“The word used to indicate an object is a noun. One can say that one has a table, a chair, a house, a book, and a car. On the other hand, the word that is used to express processes and activity is a verb. It is used to say that ‘I am’, ‘I love’, ‘I desire’, ‘I hate’. However, there is a rising trend to express that one is in ‘possession’ of a certain action. The noun is used instead of the verb. However, it is an erroneous use of the language to say that one is in ‘possession’ of a certain action instead of a noun. This is because processes and activity is not something one possesses, but experiences.” Erich Fromm observed in his book To Have or To…

through this project, Seoul Metropolitan Government is purchasing and maintaining hanok for the sake of their preservation. This project began in 2001, and the number of hanok owned by the city has now reached a total of 19. The Hong Geon-ik’s House (Jongno-gu, Pirun-dong) and the Bae Ryum’s House (Jongno-gu, Gye-dong) joined the numbers this year, and these two hanok are opened to the public in May and July respectively. An exhibition has also been organised at the Seoul Hanok. At Hong Geon-ik’s House, an exhibition titled ‘The Room of a Yeokgwan’ is open, while an exhibition titled ‘Jedang and the Bae Ryum’s House’ is currently on show at the Bae Ryum House. While one might question if one is allowed to enter the hanok when approaching it on the…

‘Seongbuk Art Commons’ is a hypothetical town where artists and residents live together in an art community. On Sep. 2, an opportunity was offered to see the town. ‘Seongbuk Art Pumping Station’, located at the entrance of Seongbuk-dong, opened the ‘Seongbuk Art Commons Project’. A former Seongbuk 1 Pumping Station, which was closed and left disused from 2011, has been remodeled as a cultural space. The ‘Seongbuk Art Commons Project’ consists of an underused space know turned into a recycling project, networking exhibition, contemporary art in modern cultural and historical spaces, and an art street project, and includes more than 80 works by around 50 artists across 30 places in Seongbuk-dong. One of the most attractive aspects is that the town has become the exhibition place. Seongbuk-dong was a living…

On Sep. 26, the 2017 Korea-China-Japan International Symposium took place at the Seoul Museum of History under the theme ‘City History Museum and Urban Memory’. In this symposium, the Hanok professional Song In-ho (director, Seoul Museum of History), an expert in the Chinese bell, Han Zhan Ming (director, Beijing Capital Museum), the internationally known architect Terunobu Fujimori (director, the Edo-Tokyo Museum) and Wang Chi (director, Shenyang Palace Museum) gathered to share their experiences of collecting and preserving urban history in the urban history museums of the three cities. The first section focused on ‘examples of grafting historical places, incidents, figures and urban memory’, and the second on ‘the solutions for application and collection of urban memory’. ‘Urban memory’ here means a kind of collective memory that consists of individual experiences…

What is the role of engineering in contemporary architecture? As speakers at the Autodesk University Korea 2017, Alein Wahha and Shri Kant Sharma of BuroHappold Engineering (BuroHappold) argued that the architect’s vision is made complete through engineering. I interviewed the architectural engineering firm, BuroHappold, which is still not known well in Korea but has expanded its practice all over the world, to investigate the role and success of the architectural engineering industry. Park Gyehyun (Park): The roles and fields of engineering in architecture have been expanded. Can you explain the field of engineering attended to by BuroHappold, and its role in architecture? Alain Waha (Waha): BuroHappold has explored almost every engineering area. Its main business is structural engineering, second is building services including lighting, fire protection, and air conditioning, and…

 The Nursery School of Siheung 3-dong is surrounded by rows of residential houses. The site is located on an inclining, narrow entry-way, and has an unfortunate, inconvenient line of sight originating with an elevation than is noticeably lower than the surrounding area. This small nursery school for 50 children had to bear the inconvenience of this environment and to be satisfied with the given programme. The main entrance was installed on the second floor, utilising the slope that reaches the one floor height. The building was placed in a Y-shaped form to encompass the playground. The Nursery School modestly abides by the city’s context as a two-story building that appears to be a one-story building when viewed from street-level. Although the playground assumes the role of a courtyard, because…

Park Sungjin (Park): The Naver Imae Nursery School boasts a significant size. It is distinguished and connects the various required programmes with the plan and section, as is important. Considering that the coverage ratio is 20%, there must have been many possibilities outlined in the plans. Lim Yeonghwan (Lim): The Naver Imae Nursery School accepts 300 children and has a total floor area of roughly 5,400m2 , which is ten times that of the Siheung 3-dong Nursery House. The biggest concern was how to adjust the scale. First, the idea was to plan three nursery houses and bring the elevated site level in three portions. The plan was consolidated into one as the parking lot, faculty room and supply room were placed on the lowest foundation, the principal’s office,…

 ‘150 for the desk and 180 for the chair’ When the first meeting with director of XIOM was about to wrap up, he started talking about the office arrangement and asked if he could make desks with a width of 150cm and chairs with a length of 180cm. That was quite an unusual proposal for office furniture, so I gently enquired after his reasons. ‘Staying seated for work doesn’t help you come up with good ideas. Instead, from time to time, lie on a chair with your eyes closed, then you will be able to get some fresh ideas.’ The design of XIOM began like that. Everyone from the generation that was born in the 1970’s and 1980’s must have played table tennis on a…

Research and Project I first chanced upon the design of the Cheongun Residence a year and a half ago. Since its earliest stages, it conformed to the basic rule of a 3 by 3 grid, gradually completing itself by fleshing out its structure with more sculptural aspects. It is always difficult to work on small-scale projects according to pre-arranged architectural and spatial concepts or theories, and even more so with residential projects. This is because it is difficult to meet a client that will understand and accept such extraneous architectural attempts, notwithstanding the already pressing need to satisfy a variety of everyday needs in a small space. Yet the Cheongun Residence was impressionable, as it had already absorbed a variety of functional demands through communication with the client and possessed…

Aim of SPACE Academia SPACE Academia is the Architectural theory research section of SPACE. The section serves to introduce academic papers that enrich and expand the legacy of SPACE, in its search for future directions in ways of thinking about architecture. After being officially listed on the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), SPACE Academia was established in concurrence with its 45th anniversary issue, on November 2011. SPACE Academia looks forward to the emergence of new discourse that can open up new horizons, and renew contemporary intellectual perceptions. SPACE Academia cordially invites the submission of academic papers of a high standard that can diagnose the intellectual potential of our times. The ‘New Type of Church’: From Le Corbusier’s Church at Firminy Jin Kouk Jeong Jin Kouk Jeong Jin Kouk Jeong,…