Innehållsförteckning för N. 584 från Space

Thomas Heatherwick, is the man behind a diverse range of three-dimensional innovations, from furniture and product design, buildings and urban planning. As a figure that has been commended by the grandfather of British design, Sir Terence Conran as ‘the DaVinci of our age’, he is like an inventor, working between the professions of designer and architect. He continuously questions given projects and creates things have not before been seen in our world, through a process of experimentation and realisation. Now, the opportunity has arrived to observe 26 of the most representative and popular works from the Heatherwick Studio, the 21 year old firm that takes his name. An exhibition organized by the British Council and curated by Kate Goodwin, the head curator of architecture at the Royal Academy of Art,…

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced the results for the Young Architect Award 2016 on May 21. After the first round of document reviews, 7 out of 28 teams were selected, and 3 teams including Kim Hyonseok (principal, june architects), Shin Minjae (principal, AnLstudio), Ann Keehyun (assistant professor, Hanyang University), and Lee Seungteak, Lim Mijung (principal, stpmj) made it to the final rounds after the second round of open review. Judges have decided on the finalists based on the belief that ‘the award should be a process of exploring and revealing the works of the applicants, not deciding the relative superiority of a few architects over others.’ They commented on the three teams that made to the final round, saying that the works of the finalists ‘respond well…

‘Gomjumsum’, a solo exhibition of installation artist Jihyun Jung at DOOSAN Gallery opened from June 1, alludes ‘something uncanny the audience is about to face.’ The title does not have any special meaning. Titles of the 25 works in the exhibition also have words that stimulate the imagination. With the combination among these words, it seems like an endless story is unfolding. We could make a sentence selecting three phrases from the titles of work: If Wind the Doesn’t Blow, Fallen after Flight, Where Elephants Art Caught. Where is here? To grasp its true nature, visitors start a pictorial puzzle in the gallery seeing work sketches in the exhibition leaflet. Because the sketches are just an outline, it seems to be an experience totally different from a reality depending on…

Choi Moonkyu (Choi): I have observed the works of Professor Yoo for quite a long time. While most of the programmes have been interesting and have aimed at diverse responses, they seem to lack any real response to the land and the surrounding environment. Take The Void as an example. Slightly changing the location or the direction from where it is now would not make much of a difference. The relationship between users has indeed been taken into consideration, but I would like to hear from him how he tried to interact with the shape of the land as well as the surrounding houses. Yoo Hyunjoon (Yoo): This may have something to do with my personal disposition. I personally believe that there should be a certain amount of distance even…

In the year 1994, when I went abroad for further study after finishing undergraduate study and military service, the world was excited over the Internet. At that time, William Mitchell, head of the department of architecture at MIT, predicted in his book City of Bits that the Internet would change our cities and lifestyle. Then, Amazon didn’t yet exist and the internet could only be accessed through Netscape. Most internet pages browsed by Netscape were the research papers of scientists. Unlike now, those pages were filled only with text. In that system, by clicking letters or words of different colours, known as hypertext, would lead to a linked page. However, people called this world of information comprised of letters ‘the Internet space’. At that time, I was curious about it.…

Sung Hong Kim (Kim): The idea of density seems to be prevalent throughout your work and publications since you published FARMAX in 1998. How did this idea come to you? Is it still a focus of your practice? Winy Maas (Maas): The idea that density is an essential tool emerged from the Club of Rome’s warning about the end of the resources. It struck me that the continuous sprawl that mostly takes place on fertile agricultural land has a negative impact on our global well-being and sustainability, densification is part of the solution. I never believed in negative solutions so in that way in my work I am always looking for compelling, seductive solutions to densification. There are many ways to densify and to do it well, a basic motive…

The biennale is an international and extremely personal report that shows what problems architects and their countries face in contemporary society. When the Venice Architecture Biennale is spatially formed of two segments, Jardini and Arsenale, its contents have two axes, the main exhibition curated by Alejandro Aravena and the national pavilion exhibitions which reinterpret Aravena’s message ‘Reporting from the Front’ through separate filters. What kind of topics are a subject of discourse? This report examines how far the interpretation of ‘frontline’ can be expanded through three special exhibitions in the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale. The word ‘front’ reminds us easily some geological location. However, when it becomes multiple concepts, that is, when it expands from place to place, ‘front’ becomes a phenomenon. The common ground of three special exhibitions is…

Architect: OLI Architecture PLLC (Bing Lin, Hiroshi Okamoto) Project team: Hiroshi Okamoto (design partner), Bing Lin (managing partner), Fabian Servagnat (interior design, site representative), Steve Hopkins (job captain), Po Chen (site representative), Dongshin Lee, Muzhi Chen, Michael Zhao, Grace Kim, Michael Pryor, S.J. Kwon, Remi Bun, Jerry Lu Location: Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, China Founding director: Chen Danqing Local architect of record: Suzhou Huazao Architectural Design Co., Ltd. Programme: galleries, library, auditorium, lounge, collection storage, administrative offices, cafe, gift and bookshop Total building area: 6,700m2 Total gallery space area: 877m2 Temporary gallery space area: 439m2 Auditorium / lounge area: 97m2 Building scope: B1, 2F Structural and MEP engineer: Suzhou Huazao Architectural Design Co., Ltd. General contractor: Zhejiang Jujiang Group Co., Ltd. Concrete consultant and mix designer: Reginald Hough Associates Concrete subcontractor:…

Seogyo-dong is a residential district in the area near Hongik University, otherwise known as the Hongdae area. With the development of large-scale franchises and commercial buildings in recent years, many skyscrapers resembling those around the Gangnam Station and Shinchon area have now been built in the Hongdae region. However, the region is primarily a residential area, which means it is legally banned from having the kinds of buildings that attract large numbers of people. In spite of such institutional constraints, it is nevertheless drawing a massive number of commercial buildings, which may have to do with it being a unique space with the vestige of low-density residential areas with various residential features, differentiating it from other densely-populated commercial areas with uniform development patterns. Many residents that lived in the region…

Apr. 17 – Nov. 20, 2016 It was from June 2009 when Punta della Dogana in Venice started to receive attention from the art world after its fourteen-month renovation. The building at the edge of Dorsoduro Island, constructed in 1441 (rebuilt in 1675), had been abandoned for 30 years. Francois Pinault, who has a number of luxury brands including Gucci, made a contract for 33-year of agreement with the City of Venice, and established private museum investing 20 million euro. This was his second project after the opening of Palazzo Grassi as a contemporary museum in 2006, and it caused a sensation with its renovation design by Tadao Ando. During the global festival called the biennale, I visited a special exhibition ‘Accrochage’ at Punta della Dogana, where has been placed…

Korea is known as the Republic of Apartments. Mass-developed apartments, which went up during the period of rapid industrialization, have long been regarded as the most important property of a family and as a means to increase assets rather than simply as a living space. As houses regain their reasons for existing as a sanctuary of life, however, the ‘building my house’ fever has gripped the nation and shows another aspect independent of the real estate business. More and more people are paying attention to single-family houses as the years go by. The Kimchungup Museum, opened in 2014, presents the second special exhibition on single-family houses, which shows a sharp sense required by the first and only architecture museum in Korea. On May 21, it opened its two-part exhibition, ‘The…

The first stage of the National Agency for Administrative City since 2007 was completed last year, and this year sees the start of the second stage. This stage aims to expand self-sufficient functions and an urban infrastructure for a city of a population of 300,000. The main projects encompass the construction of a university, companies, cultural facilities, and the National Museum Complex, including five museums and two central supporting facilities. Now, an International Competition for National Museum Complex Masterplan of Administrative city, Korea, is taking place and to acknowledge this a symposium under the theme of ‘How to Specialize the National Museum Complex of the Administrative city’ was held on May 26. Presentations were given at this symposium by Han Changseop (head, National Agency for Administrative city Construction Public Architecture…

A synthesis between ‘anonymous architecture’ and ‘no one ever knows’ The street between Hangangjin and Itaewon station, which goes by the name ‘Comme des Garçons street’, is a dense retail district that has recently been caught the attention of trendsetters in Seoul. Located down the hill from the Hyundai Card Music Library, by the entrance of the Hannam Village, On Ne Sait Jamais café is one of these select shops. Here, there are none of the studious tables nor customary chairs that one might commonly picture in a café. Customers sit upon legless chairs and cushions huddled around a large tiled structure reminiscent of a bathhouse tub, while enjoying the café’s signature menu. It is difficult to imagine such a unique interior space for a café, and even more so…

Single floor Hanok: Hanok 1.0 The first generation Hanok is a low density housing type built on a single floor. The whole house is made up of multiple buildings: the main building, a second bedroom building, and the guest bedroom building. A Hanok has two distinct void spaces: first, the yard opened to the sky is a passageway inviting nature and daecheong, the second void is a well ventilated space, which has character of both interior and exterior space. This kind of Hanok was recreated in an urban style by the house sellers in the 20th century. This is the first floor type Hanok 1.0. Three- bay Apartment: Hanok 2.0 Ever since the period of rapid urbanization, many Korean households chose to move to apartments. The universal three bay apartments…

The relationship between architecture and society has been revisited time and again as a main issue facing the world of architecture. Under themes such as ‘CITTA: Less Aesthetics, More Ethics (2000)’, ‘Cities: Architecture and Society’ (2006) and ‘Placed between Life and Society-Architecture (2010)’, the Venice Architecture Biennale has also been collecting public ideas on building a communication method for architecture and society, as well as on its possibility and necessity. However, at the current 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, Alejandro Aravena, director, while presenting successfully realized project cases and methodologies, declared ‘propose and do something.’ He also suggested the theme ‘Reporting from the Front’, which was expected to result in a number of intense applications and statements by many architects. On the exhibition, which opened on May 28, Aravena decorated the…

One step back from a crowded street, there is a small canal running across the Giardini. On the bank of the canal, the Australian Pavilion emerges, which has turned out to be the very first construction of the 21st century. If one enters the pavilion, you will realize that it doesn’t have any particular object to show, and will be surprised to find that the space is almost empty. There is only a pool taking up more than half of the area, and around the pool, a ladder and folding chairs are scattered here and there. They don’t seem to adopt any special design or intend to deliver any particular message. Instead of leaving the site with nothing, I suggest one sits on the edge of the pool or in…

Architect: JUNGLIM Architecture (Lim Jinwoo) + Olson Kundig Architects Design team: Koh Minkyu, Kim Boksoo, Baek Seungyong, Lee Junghwa, Jeon Yunchul, Jang Yeree Location: Dosandae-ro 449, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme: office, retail Site area: 1,312m2 Building area: 750.25m2 Gross floor area: 13,794.42m2 Building scope: B4, 15F Parking: 46 Height: 69.78m Building to land ratio: 59.93% Floor area ratio: 775.72% Structure: SRC Exterior finishing: THK32 double low-e glazing, granite, honeycomb panel Interior finishing: granite, wood, carpet tile Structural engineer: The Naeun Structural Engineering Construction: Shinsegae E&C Mechanical engineer: Hankook engineering Electronical engineer: KIC Design period: June 2010 – Jan. 2015 Construction period: Oct. 2010 – Apr. 2015 Client: Shinsegae International Lim Jinwoo joined JUNGLIM Architecture in 1986 and became the Design Department Manager. He is now the current CEO of JUNGLIM…

SPACE: We find that the Mu Xin Art Museum is linked within an area comprising the Grand Theater, the Historic District and a Visitor Center around the river. How did you plan to architecturally reconcile the natural conditions and the urban historic context of the location? Hiroshi Okamoto (Okamoto): When we first visited the site, we were truly inspired with the well restored ancient canal town where the artist, Mu Xin was born. The canal was a lifeline due to its long history of economic growth, connecting streets, markets, and courtyards with bridges and boats. The water was as much a connector as a divider and the experience of the urban space was quite different from a typical town based on a network of streets. We first began by making…

On June 14 1986, Korean modern architecture lost a prominent figure: the architect who designed buildings such as Kyungdong Presbyterian Church, the Space Group Building, and the Seoul Olympic Stadium, as well as urban areas like Sewoon Arcade, Yeouido, and Daehangno. He was the Lorenzo de' Medici of Korea between the 1970s and 1980s, who created space in the Space Group Building in which numerous artists have long mingled. Most of all, he was the architect that commenced publishing the monthly journal SPACE, which has now become the representative architectural and cultural magazine and is now celebrating its 50th anniversary. In spite of dying at the young age of 55, he still remains a legendary figure in Korea’s modern architectural scene. This all amounts to a description of none other…

Two people brought a big electric fan on the stage, set it in spin, and put it the floor. When the fan increases tension with a cracking sound, a man appears and solves the problem. He stopped its rotation and pulled out cord (Deus Ex Machina). Two black brothers wearing black garbage bags dance to the rhythm of an empty plastic box. Later, they adrenalized basic human senses by creating the sound of wind turning a rope (Libre Sans Toi-T). On June 11-12, an interesting competition that shows different ideas has been held in the LG Arts Center in Seoul. The title was ‘Danse Élargie’. It was a new type of performance competition hosted every other year since 2010, made by Théâtre de la Ville, a legendary theatre in Paris,…

To Live Together Seongsu-dong and Munrae-dong in Seoul, Korea are well known for being naturally formed local communities by artists moving in to the area, while Heyri of Paju is known for being a local community that only accepts residents based on their professions, such as writers, artists, filmmakers and architects as residents, hence reinforcing the local identity. These local communities are known for forming a place in which people from similar backgrounds come together, leading the once desolate city to start becoming a place in which neighbours form bonds of friendship and dependence. KNU Village is a village that corresponds to the latter. Potential residents of this new village should be within the faculty of Kyungpook National University. The majority of university campuses set aside residential space for their…

I was surprised twice when I first visited the Daekyoung Factory. The first surprise was the beautiful scenery of the mouth of the river of the Nakdonggang River, and the second surprise was that the beautiful scenery could not be seen at all from the factory complex. There were three buildings in the complex, with two buildings lined up on parallel lines, making a rectangular plaza. The plaza was busy, with many workers passing by. The third building was placed perpendicularly with the plaza, blocking the scenery towards the sea. I felt sorry for the factory workers, who are so close to the beautiful scenery, but could not even see it. The client wanted a conference room, a studio, and an office for seven workers. He also had a plan…

Two years have gone by. The Korean Pavilion won the Golden Lion Award in 2014, and Heung Soon Im won the Silver Lion Award in 2015. We are facing the biennale with the relaxed spirit of a winner, and therefore also with some expectations of winning an award. We are in a place where we can focus on what we should hope to express through the biennale, instead of obsessing over the competition and winning awards. In this article we will dissect the 2016 Korean Pavilion ‘The FAR Game’ from several angles: the aspects of the background and theme, the composition and expression, the human resources, and the evaluation of the exhibition will each be described separately. This approach may not effectively deliver an overall evaluation of the exhibition, but…

MODIFICATION AND REMODELING • LAN / Urban renovation of Lormont Génicart district, 79 collective housing units in Bègles / France • • Souto Moura - Arquitectos, Braga municipal market and its reconversion into a music and dance school / Portugal • • designworkshop : sa / Enabling structures / Durban • • Grupo EPM / Water reservoir as public park / Colombia • OPPOSING REGULATIONS • Arno Brandlhuber + Chiristopher Roth / Legislating architecture / Germnany • INSTALLATION OF NEW FACILITIES • SANAA / Inujima landscape project / Japan • • El equipo Mazzanti/ Trustics: architecture as a tactic of trust / Colombia • • Menos é Mais / Gaia Cablecar / Portugal • • GrupoTalca / Observation Deck in Pinohuacho / Chile • • Zao,…

Architect: Gusang Architectural Group (Min Soh, Cho Jinhee) + Kim Kyoungtae Location: 10, Jandari-ro 3-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme: commercial facility Site area: 274.15m2 Building area: 153.1m2 Gross floor area: 407.06m2 Building scope: B1, 2F Height: 8.6m Parking: 3 Building to land ratio: 55.84 % Floor area ratio: 88.47 % Structure: RC Exterior finishing: brick, fluorocarbon resin metal panels Interior finishing: paint on gypsum board, tile, marble flooring Structural engineer: Barun structure engineering Mechanical engineer: Sungwoo engineering Electronical engineer: Sungwoo engineering Design period: Apr. – Sep. 2014 Contruction period: Oct. 2014 – Sep. 2015 Client: Rutter Associates Korea Min Soh earned his Master of Architecture from U.C. Berkeley in the United States. He worked at Kunwon International in Korea and K2A Architecture & Interiors in San Francisco from 1995 to…

May 8 – June 18, 2016May 28 – Aug. 28, 2016 The contemporary art scene has been under a bright spotlight over the past decades, bringing with it challenges such as the number of visitors to exhibitions, branding, the efficacy of communication, accessibility… The typical way to deal with such issues is to enlarge the scale of shows and artworks, and to locate the shows in big buildings, be they heritage houses or new hyper-designed buildings. Both public proposals and private commissions are in tough competition, challenging each other in a harsh climate, but hopefully for the best outcome. Our concern today lays with with successful events, which guide attention to two extremely different situations but deal with over-scaled visual proposals. The question is whether gigantic space can be offered…