Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2017 i Space

Gangwon-do, the venue of the Olympic Winter Games 2018, is receiving attention from all over the world. An exhibition exploring the tangible and intangible assets of Gangwon-do was opened in order to raise domestic and international concerns about the region. ‘Spring of PyeongChang’, which opened on Apr. 25 at Culture Station Seoul 284, introduced the attractions, foods and activities of Gangwon-do through a reinterpretation of public design. The exhibition revealed the region’s authentic values, hoping to encourage continued public attention after Winter Olympics. The exhibition consisted of four parts: ‘Olympic Winter Games and Local Culture’, ‘Nine Scenery’, ‘Dish-Washing Car3’ and ‘Read, Eat, Link’. Local And, nooNdesign, Song Jeon Dong, and Paju Typography Institute curated each respective part. The sub themes of exhibition concern ways of communicating the ordinary life of…

It is often assumed that being powerful appears to make one a little blunt, while being more sophisticated and stable reveals one to be lacking in that more forceful edge. Jung Hyowon (principal, JHW IROJE architects) catches two birds with one stone by having both architecture prowess and completeness. The ‘Forest and House’, awarded the 2015 Kim Swoogeun Preview Award, surpasses the typical form of the division of space, and dramatically divides space by even separating the bathroom. Jung Hyowon weave the house into the client’s life. He aggressively dismantles function with the materials and structure, while sensibly adjusting the size and layout. JHW’s architectural strength derives from such bold and experimental elements, which are effectively exercised by his use of clear structural solutions and details. Pursuing his career for…

Texture of the Earth_ The plan began with concern about how to represent something of the texture of nature, which has a different character from the scale of the indoor stadium. We wanted the soft red-brown colour of the Youngsangang riverbank to continue throughout the mass. The Structure and Ceiling of the Stadium_ The long span space is usually secured by the structural form of the interior space or the steel-frame structure, but it also causes a visual distraction due to exposed structural material and equipment facilities. For this stadium, the structural limit of the interior form and the concrete long span beam was supplemented by the PT beams. A seven-sided court was planned inside the 50×20×12m (H) concrete box, which is a wall structure that does not allow any…

Architect: AL_A (Amanda Levete) Project director: Maximiliano Arrocet Design team: Fernando Ruiz Barberan, Mirta Bilos, Alex Bulygin, Grace Chan, Sara Ortiz Cortijo, Alice Dietsch, Ciriaco Castro Diez, Yoo Jin Kim, Ilina Kroushovski, Michael Levy, Cristina Revilla Madrigal, Stanislaw Mlynski, Ho-Yin Ng, Giulio Pellizzon, Raffael Petrovic, Chloe Piper, Filippo Previtali, Arya Safavi, Maria Alvarez-Santullano, Joe Shepherd, Paula Vega, Konstantinos Zaverdinos Local architect: Aires Mateus e Associados Location: Av. Brasilia, Lisbon, Portugal Programme: galleries, cafe, education centre, offices, museum storage Site area: 8,100m2 Total building area: 7,400m2 Total exhibition space: 2,855m2 Total roof area: 8,100m2 Total public space given to Lisbon: 9,430m2 South facade main surface: 1,130m2 Total number of ceramic tiles: 14,751 Civil, structural & building services engineering: Afaconsult Landscape: Vladimir Djurovic Landscape Architecture Restaurant and shop lighting Structural engineer: SEAM…

The historical figure Son Yang Won was a patriot who served a five-year sentence during the Japanese Colonial Era, for refusing to participate in Shinto worship. He was eventually killed, trapped between the ideological conflict of left and right during a period of unrest in the Korean War. He was made a saint of the protestant church, for a life of holy sacrifice and devout Christian faith that made him a rare figure, even in the history of the world, devoting himself to sufferers of leprosy who had been abandoned by society. The architectural project that was commissioned as a monument to the national patriot Son Yang Won evades the taxidermy-like exhibition method of simply displaying the heritage and personal belongings of the said figure. Rather, the project has been…

Jeong Euiyeob is a principal of AND (Architecture of Novel Differentiation), and he focuses on the issues related to the co-existence of heterogeneity and the construction of generative difference. He is the recipient of KIA’s Architecture of the Year Award in 2011, and had participated in ‘Korea-Japan Contemporary Architecture’ exhibition (2012) and Venice Biennale (2016). Architect: AND (Jeong Euiyeob) Design team: Kim Taekyoung Location: Seocho-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme: single family house Site area: 330m2 Building area: 160m2 Gross floor area: 240m2 Building scope: 2F Height: 7.86m Parking: 3 Building to land ratio: 48.74% Floor area ratio: 55.22% Structure: RC Exterior finishing: stuc-O-flex Interior finishing: gypsum board, paint, porcelain tile Structural engineer: THEKUJO Engineering Inc. Mechanical and electrical engineer: JUNGYEON Engineering Inc. Construction: Moowon Construction co. ltd. Design period: Oct. 2014…

Caruso St John Architects was founded by Adam Caruso and Peter St John in London in 1990. Working together for 26 years, they have always worked together on projects in the office and teaching students. Adam Caruso has written several books under the theme of the ‘Forgotten Generation of European Architects’. He tries to reexamine the works of forgotten European architects who have never been introduced in English. The highlights of this research are beautiful pictures and recreated drawings. These detailed drawings take the research to the level of art rather than simple survey reports of old buildings. Caruso, whose intention is always to learn from history, has clearly conceived of his works not only in terms of his practical and professional projects in Caruso St John Architects but also…

The AIA 2017 Conference (A’17), held in the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, United States, from Apr. 26 – 29, witnessed long queues of two hours prior to opening. Contributing architects also waited in the queue in order to attend the first lecture given by Michelle Obama following the retirement of former president Barack Obama. Michelle spoke about the Obama Museum, focusing on planning and the experience of urban space in Chicago and Washington. She asked architects to be mentors and to help children from low-income backgrounds to achieve their dreams of becoming architects. The former first lady, who is committed to social projects, received a standing ovation from many attendees and participants. During the lectures and seminars over three successive days, speakers such as Elizabeth Diller (partner architect, Diller…

Opening my office in 2013, I did not have a specific direction or plan in mind on how to establish or run it. I carried out some of the architecture designing projects in the first year after an interior design project received as my first order three months after the office opened. The four different projects are including houses and neighbourhood living facilities. Some of my works during the first year of operation have given me time to collect my thoughts about my design experience, my interest, and specifically what I should select and take forward when setting a direction in the initial stages of design works. It was so exciting to apply specific details one-by-one during the design process, so that the numerous difficulties I faced while managing the…

Site and Streetscape_ The building is located in the backstreet of the Cheongdam intersection, where luxury brand shops, and opulent apartments and houses boast their unique form. It is surrounded by the Hyundai and Gusan Apartment complex and other commercial facilities that are more than ten stories high. Structure and Expansion of the Interior Space_ Abiding by the condition that the mass had to decrease as it reached its higher levels, the structure was planned by placing four of the long span PT beams in the same location on all floors. The remaining structure is organised with a cantilever structure, which led to the expansion of the interior space without any independent columns. Architectural Regulations and the Double Skin_ The site has a precondition by which the Hyundai and Gusan…

MAAT, the new Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, is an outward-looking museum located on the banks of the River Tagus in Belém, the district from which the great Portuguese explorers first set off across the world. Proposing a new relationship with the river and the wider world, the kunsthalle is a powerful, yet sensitive, low-slung building that explores the convergence of contemporary art, architecture and technology. The new building is the centrepiece of the EDP Foundation’s masterplan for an art campus that includes the repurposed Central Tejo Power Station. With a 3.8ha campus along the Tagus River in Lisbon, MAAT is an ambitious international project that embodies the unique and contemporary vision of the Foundation. The campus sits on the banks of the Tagus, the source of Portugal’s historic…

Cho Sungik graduated from the department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering of Seoul National University and received his M.Arch from Yale University. He then worked at SOM on diverse projects including supertalls and urban planning works. He is now investigating the interplay between architectural design and urban research as a professor at Hongik University. He works as a principal of TRU Architects as well as a public architecture supervisor for Seoul. Architect: TRU Architects(Cho Sungik) Design team: Park Junho, Yoon Kyungok, Park Sungmin Location: 1006-5, Unjung-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea Programme: single family house Site area: 230.60m² Building area: 114.80m² Gross floor area: 278.68m² Building scope: B1, 2F Building to land ratio: 49.78% Floor area ratio: 86.85% Structure: reinforced concrete Exterior finishing: brick Interior finishing: paint, wood flooring, tiles Structural…

On the way to the new wood experience centre in Incheon Grand Park, a newly constructed park welcomes visitors. The building reveals its sensible appearance little by little through the light green leaves and branches of early spring. The wood experience centre has the aesthetic value of sculpture, spindling triangular shapes and lines cross and connect with each other in dynamic combinations. Most particularly, the façade at the entrance, with a wall that extends as far as the outside of the second floor, caught my eye. The façade consists of dark red wood pieces in a linear pattern. Each piece is compose of a spindling triangular shape that keeps the figurative motives of building, and has sense of weight, but does not look blunt. The wooden pieces have an entangling,…

The black box which suddenly appeared on a street laden with a long line of small detached houses presents an unexpected scene. This black box was again divided into two, with the upper side appearing as if it had been lifted into thin air—an even more unanticipated sight. The black box functions in adherence with its original purpose to intercept the gaze of those on the outside, yet, at the same time, the horizontal windows which pass through the entirety of the box allow a little expectant glimpse into what lies within. The black box holds small white boxes. The black box creates a strong boundary between the interior and exterior, and the white boxes are arranged liberally at the centre of the site within this interior. The black box,…

Cheonggye-cheon has gone through many changes. In 1960, there was a shanty-town situated along the stream, and since the late 1960s, the government began redeveloping the place. The restoration work was completed in 2005. Now that twelve years have passed since the finalisation of the restoration work, the Cheonggye-cheon of the past seems to have been forgotten. However, there is a person who recorded Cheonggye-cheon in the 1960s, Kuwabara Shisei. His photography exhibition ‘Looking Back on Cheong Gye Cheon 1965 – 1968’ opened on Apr. 27 at the Cheong Gye Cheon Museum of Seoul Museum of History. Kuwabara Shisei is a news photojournalist, who came to Korea in 1964 as a correspondent. The Grand Hotel building, now the Dongseong Bldg., where he was staying, was located at a contact point…

‘Dance with a large piece of chalk. Mark up the nearest surface and pay attention to the movement of your feet’. Following the instruction of Joan Jonas, visitors dance on a blackboard, scribble, and do works in their own way. Not only the participating artists, but also visitors can freely interpret these works. ‘do it 2017, Seoul’ presents an exhibition of 44 instructions. This exhibition is a version for Seoul of ‘do it’, which was initiated by Hans Ulrich Obrist publishing artists’ instructions in nine languages. In this show in Seoul, the instructions are recreated through the collaboration of more than 20 teams of choreographers, sociologists, chef, and visual artists, including Gu Minja, Kim Sora, Hong Jackson, Hong Seung-Hye. Among the works exhibited, Where Should We Go? by Kim Namjin…

The Second Life_ The client, who is a professor and an engineer, is facing retirement in three years time. He wants to prepare for this second life, where he will enjoy the surrounding environment in a nature-friendly home. The Yard-less House_ A house is built on a small mountain, land borrowed from Mother Nature. The trees are carefully dug up in order to set the house’s foundations. Because the lot is borrowed from nature, the creation of a yard for human pleasure was felt to be unnecessary. There is only a small path leading towards the entrance. As there is no yard, the entire surrounding environment—where one lays his/her eyes becomes the yard. Scattered Rooms_ Each room is widely scattered and placed on the edge of the site. The shell…

An architecture that speaks is attractive; one that tells lies is even more so. Architecture is perhaps among the many genres of art the one with the most limited means of communication. Architecture may start with an architect’s sketch drawn in isolation, but it can only be realised through a dramatic process involving the understanding, misunderstanding, and cooperation between clients, office staffs, contractors, engineers, site managers, workers, and civil petitioners. But even so, its primary method of communication is through the impressionistic language of form and space, the property of plastic arts. This brings our attention to the most recent social attention given to storytelling, a method that utilises the most fundamental and friendly method of communication in order to transfer physical objects and data into understandable meanings, and thus…

1 What does it mean to draw a plan or to create a drawing to you? 2 What do you think about how the position of traditional plans, elevations, and sections are deconstructed and reconstructed in contemporary architecture? 3 What do you think makes a good section? If you know any good models, could tell us about them and their author? 4 What kind of sequence and process do you follow when you draw a section? I would like to know your considerations regarding expression. 5 I would like to know what informed your ideas in this section and why you choose this approach. What were the essential values and characteristics of the work that you intended to show here? 6 How do you develop your ideas about section in…

‘To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit.’ – Igor Stravinsky Escaping from a desolate city, Incheon Grand Park is paradise. Living creatures are not so frivolous as to select their leader or to be selected. There is no urban inelegance. They are celebrating the new season with a mischievous smile. It’s summer! MOKYEONRI is part of the Wood Culture Promotion Programme of the Korea Forest Service, and a winner of the design competition for the Incheon Wood Culture Experience Centre. The architect Han Eunju named the work as MOKYEONRI, which means ‘separate trees make harmony merging into each other.’ It also implies a series of spatial meanings that awaken various perceptions of guileless people in woodland and trees. It is hardly possible that this small…

Rearing up from the riverside in a dynamic arc, the new kunsthalle of the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) is a shimmering addition to Lisbon’s fast evolving exhibition scene. The long elliptical structure, which opened in late 2016, slopes up away from the city to face the fast flowing currents of the River Tejo, the white steps to its entrance leading to edge of the water. Costing an astonishing 20 millon EUR (24,827,698,461KRW), the building was designed by the British architect Amanda Levete to be both a striking contemporary landmark, signaling a new era of prosperity and cultural ambition in Portugal, as well as remaining sensitive to the stylings of the traditional Portuguese edifice. Thousands of pure white crackle-fired tiles have been affixed to the curved walls of…