Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2019 i Space

How will the progress of digital technology affect architecture in the future? How will a new logic of form and construction change architecture? It is not easy to predict, but many architects and architectural firms are already active in applying digital technologies to establish new paradigms in architecture. Sometimes they run their own modelmaking team, including Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Morphosis. Haenglim Architecture & Engineering Co., Ltd. (hereinafter Haenglim Architecture) is also operating their own modelmaking team, ‘Haenglim Shop’. Haenglim Architecture recently held the ‘Agitecture’ exhibition about architectural designs and models using digital technology at Myungdong Church Gallery 1898 from July 17 to 29. The title of the exhibition ‘Agitecture’ is a compound word of ‘Agitpunkt’ plus ‘Architecture’, which means that in-house architects gathered in a hideout…

Thomas Barger’s first solo exhibition ‘Sugar Dish’ was held in Supply Seoul in Seongsu-dong from July 25 to Aug. 15. Thomas Barger, a young furniture designer born in 1992, majored in architecture and landscape architecture, and produces furniture of cartoonish shapes and intense colours. Not knowing how to make furniture because he was not trained as a furniture designer, he began furniture design with discarded IKEA furniture found on the street by adding paper pulp to it. This production method soon became part of his unique design language. The powerful image of his furniture means that it looks like sculpture, but they are also practical items satisfying their function. A biscuit-like object with a bite taken out of it is a hanger; a round volume like a tree trunk with…

SOAP (Kwon Soonyup)’s ‘Reflective Scape’ was selected as the winner of the Hangang Sky Walkway Design Competition. It is a design that draws its guiding concept from a pontoon bridge, which is the original form of Hangan Bridge. As a form made up of the repetitions in a floating boat-shaped structure, the architect divided the bridge into two functions – that is, the upper deck part and the lower structural part – and developed an effective system that will accommodate various spaces. This was decided upon with consideration for the structural limitations, as the original bridge post must support the new walkway. Unlike the lower part, which was developed with the bridge post of Hangang Bridge in mind, the upper deck part transitions into a different level where activities such…

Architect BCHO Partners (Cho Byoungsoo, Lee Jihyun, Yoon Jayoon) Design team Kim Minyoung, Jeong Yoonseok Location 9-2, Yeonhui-ro 24-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme neighbourhood living facilities, multi-family housing Site area 773.2m² Building area 398.74m² Gross floor area 1,997.21m² Building scope B2, 4F Parking 13 Height 15.96m Building to land ratio 51.57% Floor area ratio 143.28% Structure RC, CFT, PT Exterior finishing aluminium porous panels painted with fluoride, pine board exposed concrete Interior finishing water paint on fire-resistant gypsum, pine board exposed concrete Structural engineer Dongyang Structural Engineers Group Co.Ltd. Construction C&O Engineering&Construction Mechanical and electrical engineer HANA Consulting Engineers Co.,Ltd. Design period June 2016 – Feb. 2017 Construction period Dec. 2016 – June 2018 Client Park Seo-Bo Located amidst Yeonhee-daero of Seodaemun-gu and the many multi-household residences, GIZI_Art Base (GIZI)…

Physical Properties and Relationships In the 1960s, the art movement known as Minimalism emerged in the United States. It attempted to eliminate unnecessary matters and leave only minimal needs. In opposition to the rules of visuality and the flatness of painting, it pursued a conceptual art and other art practices that deny flatness. Artists such as Frank Stella and Richard Serra pursued new works of art that would focus on the sensations that occur when encountering objects, the perception of time and space, and the behavior of recognizing the relationships. With Japanese artists as the central figures, Mono-ha (School of Things) explored the stimulus presented by the physical properties of objects such as soil, wood, glass, water and steel, and also the encounters with industrial materials, minimizing the act of…

The exhibition ‘Busan: It exists now as it was then’, which explores Busan’s original city centre (wondoshim), is on show from Aug. 3 to Sep. 15 at F1963 in Busan. From the perspective of viewing the dynamic history of wondoshim and the lives enshrined within it as Busan’s foundation of strength, this exhibit explores this theme through the photographs, paintings, installations, and video works of 16 local artists that total up to 100 works. The first section, ‘Surging, Rolling Power’, focuses on the sea. Upon entering the exhibit hall, one faces a ship propeller lying about on the floor and hears the sound of clanking metal making contact reverberating throughout. This is Jung Manyoung’s GgangKangKungPungKwang. It exhibits a recording taken in GgangGgangyi town where continuous racket produced by hammers striking…

If there was one thing that I have constantly contemplated and wanted to realise since the opening of my office in 1994, and throughout my interest in the experiential and perceptual aspects of architecture, it would be ‘things related to the land and nature’, with the intention of ‘making the building simple while enriching the phenomena and experience’. There is nothing more primal and effective than the experience of the land and nature, which can lead us into the realm of meaningful cognition. In order to further explicate the spirit of the land, and nature, its surrounding context, and the numerous and complex elements of nature to have them more potently experienced and related, the building about to be introduced there must first and foremost be simplified to emphasise the…

Architect BCHO Partners (Cho Byoungsoo, Lee Jihyun, Yoon Jayoon) Location 226-37, Gugi-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme single house Site area 274m² Building area 101.2m² Gross floor area 275.7m² Building scope B1, 3F Parking 2 Height: 10.3m Building to land ratio 36.93% Floor area ratio 100.99% Structure RC Exterior finishing exposed concrete, expanded metal Interior finishing paint on gypsum board Construction C&O Engineering&Construction Electrical engineer Cho Eun Technology Group Design period Mar. 2016 – July 2017 Construction period Dec. 2017 – Sep. 2018 The lower half of the site located at the foot of Bukhan mountain is surrounded by buildings to its left and right and stonework to its back. The original site level possessed unfavourable conditions for good natural air circulation and exposure to daylight. In this situation, the main…

Place and Change The site is located in the Historical and Cultural Aesthetic Control Zone (hereinafter HCAC Zone) between Gwanghwamun Square and Gyeonghuigung Palace, a place in which a building over four stories cannot be built. Even if it was submitted to deliberation by the Architectural Committee and was eventually deregulated, a building of only six stories or under can be built, and yet the 600m-long road is filled with high-rises. There are only two buildings that are four stories or below, and which seem to be considering their potential for development. The first design proposal consisted of three underground levels and four ground levels, in order to use the maximum space available within the given conditions. However, the removal of the HCAC Zone was announced. How it would change…

This project is part of the urban regeneration of the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG), remodeling an old Japanese house built in 1935 by altering its primary use and subjecting it to major repair, now used as a shared community facility. This house is registered as one of the SMG Architectural Assets ▼1 , but observers tend to have a negative opinion about such a registration programme as it might infringe property rights. To contend with this, SMG recently announced the ‘Seoul Architectural Assets Promotion Enforcement Plan’, in an attempt to spread the opinion that the Architectural Assets Registration Program is an opportunity for capitalisation and not an economic loss due to unilateral regulations. The Hoehyeon Community project seems to have been planned with the aim of establishing local assets by…

Penetrating our everyday lives, it seems nearly impossible to imagine the world these days without delivery. The spread of high-speed internet services and the growth of single households, along with the advancement of the delivery system, has helped free such services of limitations and make available myriad items and accessible the remotest of places. The competition between service brands, including promises such as one-day delivery, before- sunrise-delivery, and express-delivery, are higher and more in demand than ever. One artist is attempting to capture this social phenomenon, transferring it into their interrogative art pieces. Her name is Koo Donghee, an installation artist. The exhibition, ‘Delivery’, which will be held from July 20 to Sep. 1 at Art Sonje Center, will be Koo’s first solo exhibition in five years after her inclusion…

The finalists in the 37th Seoul Architecture Award have been announced. Oil Tank Culture Park, designed by Heo Seogoo and RoA architects, have been selected as the Grand Prize winner. Oil Tank Culture Park is a remodeling project of an oil storage site—a modern industrial facility. The project was praised for how it managed to overcome the overbearing impression of the original facility, the unique property of the site, and an unclear programme to transform the site into a new architectural space while retaining and effectively drawing on the structural properties of each oil tank. Excellence Awards were given to a total of four works: the Seosomun Shrine History Museum by a consortium including Yoon Seunghyun (professor, Chung-Ang University), Interkerd Architects, VOID architects and LESS architects; Amorepacific Headquarters by David…

Architect BCHO Partners (Cho Byoungsoo, Lee Jihyun, Yoon Jayoon) Design team Kim Minyoung, Yang Hongjun, Lee Jihyun, Park Seonyeong, Kim Tanho Location 137, Yugwansun-gil, Byeongcheon-myeon, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea Programme educational and research facility Site area 34,174m² Building area 11,901.69m² Gross floor area 41,485.03m² Building scope B1, 3F Parking 279 Height 19.86m Building to land ratio 34.83% Floor area ratio 71.17% Structure steel frame, RC Exterior finishing expanded metal, exposed concrete, IMP panel Interior finishing corrugated steel plate, cement block Structural engineer Guy Nordenson and Associates, Dongyang Structural Engineers Group Co., Ltd. Construction Hyundai Engineering&Construction Mechanical and electrical engineer HANA Consulting Engineers Co.,Ltd. Landscape architect Garden In Forest Co., Ltd. Design period Dec. 2014 – Dec. 2017 Construction period Apr. 2016 – May 2018 Client Hyundai Motor Company The Hyundai…

Architect BCHO Partners (Cho Byoungsoo, Lee Jihyun, Yoon Jayoon) Design team Kim Minyoung Location 76-12, Heyrimaeul-gil, Tanhyeon-myeon, Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea Programme neighbourhood living facilities Site area 760.3m² Building area 365.74m² Gross floor area 849.4m² Building scope B1, 3F Parking 8 Height 10.95m Building to land ratio 48.1%3 Floor area ratio 72.87% Structure RC Exterior finishing exposed concrete, expanded metal Interior finishing paint on gypsum board, oak Structural engineer Dongyang Structural Engineers Group Co.Ltd. Construction Seum Engineering&Construction Mechanical and electrical engineer TED E&C Design period Dec. 2014 – June 2016 Construction period June 2016 – May 2017 The site is located on a corner between Galdae Plaza Park and Neutimadang Park within Heyri Art Village, Paju-si. The site condition is complex as the marshes created by the Galdae Plaza Park are…