Innehållsförteckning för N. 585 från Space

‘Seoul is overcrowded. Houses like matchboxes pack the slope of the mountainside, there are overcrowded classrooms, overcrowded buses...everything is overcrowded: cars, homes, signboards, classrooms. One even needs a license to be buried at a cemetery.’ Only a paragraph of news in the Dong-A Ilbo on Feb. 14, 1966 describes the situation of the overcrowded metropolis that was Seoul. Kim Hyeon Ok, the former mayor of Busan, became the mayor of Seoul in 1966 when the phenomenon accelerated. Proposing a masterplan for Seoul just after he took office, he left the trace of developing age at every corner in Seoul. He is the one who laid down the framework of the present metropolis we recognise as Seoul. ‘The city is a line, Mayor Kim Hyeon Ok 1966–1970’ at the Seoul Museum…

Kukje Gallery is holding the second special exhibition since it launched a programme of special exhibitions for guest curators, intending to discover new contemporary artists, beginning with ‘Songs of Slant Rhymes’ (2013) three years ago. This year’s guest curator is Kim Sungwon (professor, Department of Fine Arts, Seoul National University of Science and Technology). It is therefore quite exciting to see which artists will be selected by this ‘well-known’ curator, who has worked as an art director for unique spaces such as the Art Sunjae Center, Atelier Hermès, and Culture Station Seoul 284. It is bound to attract public attention to the artists considered as potential star in the future in that this exhibition is sponsored by a leading gallery in Korea. However, the title seems strange; ‘wellknown unknown.’ It’s…

‘Mentor’ originates from Mentor, a friend of Odysseus in the ancient Greek epic poem The Odyssey, meaning a positive adviser in one’s life full of wisdom and faith. The compliment to a mentor is known as a Protégé. The world may make progress when furthered by the close networks between a Mentor and Protégé. On June 16, Rolex, the Swiss watch maker, announced a number of new artists that will participate in the ‘Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative’. ‘Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative’, a biannual global culture and arts philanthropic programme supervised by Rolex has brought talented young artists together with artistic masters across seven disciplines of architecture, dance, film, literature, music, theatre, and visual arts in a one-to-one relationship. Turning eight this year, since it was launched…

Park Sungjun (Park): You studied product design at the Royal College of Art. Due to this, there is a rumour that the conservative architectural community doesn’t see you with favourable eyes. Your design spectrum is so broad – to the extent that you have designed handbags as a creative director at Longchamp. Whether it comes to fashion or Google HQ, what does an act of ‘making’ mean to you? Thomas Heatherwick (Heatherwick): I wrote my thesis when I was 20 years old. My big essay for my undergraduate degree was about how work should have a connection to the experience of making, and the lack of construction in the education of designing the buildings. I found at that time that there wasn’t any educational course that centred upon making buildings,…

Dwelling in the Mini-Residential/Commercial Complex_ The client, who is an ordinary salaried worker, wanted a home where he and his family could create good memories and also generate profit. The project had to include a dreamy attic, a profitable commercial space, and rentable studios and office spaces on a 200m² site. As it had to be a self-sustainable building before becoming a home, we decided to call it a mini-residential/commercial complex. Vertical Expansions in the Space_ We approached the floor area with the notion of making it feel larger and expanded than in buildings commonly used by users. We used the diagonal line due north organized around legal limitations. A staircase balcony would generally be used on this occasion, but we chose to make each balcony on the northern and…

I usually start off my lectures by explaining the meaning of the name, THE_SYSTEM LAB. A myriad of environmental factors exist around us, all with their own unique system and all optimized to sustain a unique organic organisation. We name this ‘THE SYSTEM’. As in nature, all architecture projects have their own ecosystem. Various items, such as the project costs, timespan, the client’s position, the site’s context, the architectural regulations, and changes to the user group, are all critical elements that will dictate the success of a project. Our company is a LAB that painstakingly engages in a tug of war with these individual factors to create THE SYSTEM. This is an effort made in forming an optimized system, by developing it in accordance with the project’s technology, capital restructuring,…

1 A system governing the Architectural critics award in Korea has operated for more than three decades. The first architectural critics award in Korea was presented to the winner of the Architecture Critics Competition held by the design magazine Ccumim in 1984. At that time, the many fields of architecture had recognised the importance of criticism, expanding the will to improve the built environment through improved critical understanding of the practical and conceptual realities. SPACE continued with this convention when it launched and held the SPACE Prize for Architectural Criticism from 1990 to 1992. Nowadays, the architectural magazine Wide AR regularly discovers young architectural critics through its Wide AR Architectural Critics Awards, held annually since 2010. Surprisingly enough, many architectural critics’ awards only exist thanks to the sacrifices and endeavors…

Architect: Lee Eunseok (Kyung Hee University) + Kim Kwansoo (Kyung Hee University) + Atelier KOMA Design team: Jeon Changbae, Kim Yunghyun, Shin Joosub, Oh Jihoon, Jung Joonyong Location: 361-2, Chwipyeong-ri, Buseok-myeon, Seosan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea Programme: Church Site area: 1,650.02m2 Building area: 692.63m2 Gross floor area: 1,308.33m2 Building scope: 3F Parking: 10 Height: 11.6m (Cross Tower: 20m) Building to land ratio: 41.98% Floor area ratio: 79.29% Structure: reinforced concrete Exterior finishing: exposed concrete, external insulation dystem (stucoflex), THK24 pair glass. Interior finishing: cedar exposed concrete, water paint on gypsum board Structural engineer: Eun structural engineers Construction: direct management manager Kim Taiyoul Mechanical engineer: Jusung mechanical engineering & consulting Electrical engineer: Hangil Engineering Design period: Mar. – Aug. 2013 Construction period: Aug. 2013 – Oct. 2014 Client: Heavenly Gem Church senior pastor…

Woo Hyunjung(Woo): The members of LAb[au] are Els Vermang, Manuel Abendroth and Jérôme Decock. What are the specialisms of each member? How do you divide between and combine technology and storytelling when you make your work? LAb[au] : Manuel Abendroth (born in Wels, Austria, in 1969) studied architecture and urbanism at La Cambre in Brussels and worked for several years as an exhibition coordinator for internationally renowned artists, such as Hanne Darboven, Mingelangelo Pistoletto and Gerhard Merz, before starting his own art practice almost 20 years ago with Jérôme Decock (born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1973), whom he met at school during his studies on sound engineering and architecture. Els Vermang (born in Leuven, Belgium, 1981) joined LAb[au] at the beginning of 2003. Parallel to her studies of classical languages,…

This year Yoon Sunkyeong won the Heritage Tomorrow Prize with ‘Deeply Rooted House, Growing Seonggwak Maeul’. Competition for the architectural design idea, the Heritage Tomorrow Project 6 was held to propose a new prototype for the village block for the gradual redevelopment of Haengchon Village, Jongno-gu. While the scale of space in ‘Deeply Rooted House, Growing Seonggwak Maeul’ is kept lower than the height of Hanyang Doseong (City Wall), the ground level could be emptied with a strategy aggregating plots which place a dense residential space across 30 units in the basement. On the other hand, the ground level is designed as a low density space with only minimum public facilities, like approaches to the sunken garden of each unit standing like light columns, a security office and a senior…

The Anyang Public Art Project, better known as APAP, celebrates its 11th anniversary this year. It has been held five times with an interval of two or three years, but it is going to settle as the only trienniale of public art in Korea from this year onwards. It is APAP5 that is the title of the 5th APAP, to be held in Anyang Art Park and the city of Anyang for two months Oct. 15 to Dec. 15 Although it has adopted a deductive process of the confirmation of subject — the appointment of participants and the design of exhibits until now, it has adopted an inductive process this time to reflect the various perspectives of participants through the research of Anyang. Field research has been conducted by considering…

Architect: THE_SYSTEM LAB (Kim Chanjoong) Design team: Kim Younghwan, Park Sanghyun, Kim Jongkil Location: 10, 739-8, Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme: office Site area: 328.79m2 Building area: 196.99m2 Gross floor area: 1,247.42m2 Building scope: B2, 5F Height: 19.95m Parking: 11 Building to land ratio: 59.91% Floor area ratio: 249.85% Structure: reinforced concrete Exterior finishing: alucobond Interior finishing: paint on gypsumboard, stone Structural engineer: thekujo Mechanical and electrical engineer: HANA Consulting Engineers CO., Ltd Construction: Geo Hyun Construction Design period: May 2013 – June 2015 Construction period: Mar. 2014 – Aug. 2015 Client: Moon Sangho Street and Urban Architecture_ The M Building is located on the roadside between Hangangjin Station and the Cheil Worldwide Inc. Building. Because the view towards the river is blocked by the surrounding buildings, the site focuses…

Architect: Lee Minsoo (Hanyang Univ.) + Ahn Keehyun (Hanyang Univ.) + AnLstudio (Shin Minjae) Design team: Choi Sungsik, Park Hyungkook, Kwon Hyoyoon Location: 49-1, 49-17 Jangjeon-ri, Aewol-eub, Jeju-si, Jeju, Korea Programme: residential (building A), pension (building B), cafe (building C) Site area: 2,971m2 Building area: 508m2 Gross floor area: 542m2 Building scope: 2F Height: 8.5m Parking: 8 Building to land ratio: 17% Floor area ratio: 18% Structure: timber structure & steel Exterior finishing: lime stone, mulbow, stainless steel plate Interior finishing: painting, tile, wood flooring Structural engineer: Fraser Valley ENG Mechanical and Electronical engineer: Jeongyeon ENG Construction: TCM global Design period: Aug. 2013 – Aug. 2014 Contruction period: Oct. 2014 – Mar. 2016 Client: Yoon Soonwhang, Kim Bowhan Lee Minsoo is an assistant professor of college of design, Hanyang University.…

Architect: Tchely Shin Hyung-Chul (shinslab architecture) Location: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Samcheong-ro 30, Jongno-gu, Seoul Programme: art installation Site area: 180m2 Pavilion size: 1300(W)×1700(L)×800(H)cm Structure: steel frame, steel plate Structural engineer: thekujo Light engineer: shinslab architecture Design period: Feb. – July 2016 Construction period: May – July 2016 Completion: 4 July, 2016…

The nominated work for the third rendition of the Young Architects Programme (YAP), Temp’L has been revealed to the public in the courtyard of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (MMCA Seoul). Temp’L, so named by combining the words for temporary and temple, is a pavilion in the shape of a capsized shipwreck, reaching up to 8m tall. It has drawn the attention of the countless people who saunter past Sogeok-dong, even before the opening of the exhibition. It might be thought that the work Temp’L will remind viewers of the Sewol Ferry Disaster, as images of the scenes depicting the ferry capsizing have now been represented in the Gwanghwamun area, an area not too far from the Blue House itself. The architect Tchely Shin Hyung-Chul (principal,…

The sketches to present a new landscape to two cities are ready. Left as an isolated island in city centre of Seoul for four decades, Nodeul Island has now ended its long journey at last reaching the third stage of completion on June 22. Prior to this, the winner of the Suncheon International Competition for Architectural Ideas, was announced, leading to the creation of a new landmark in the existing city centre. First, the Suncheon International Competition for Architectural Ideas, officially recognized by UIA (Union Internationale des Architectes), attracted great attention from home and abroad since it was launched last March. Five teams were selected out of 303 entries from 42 countries. The Suncheon Art Platform is to play an essential role in the Old City of Suncheon, by highlighting…

Consisting of about 40 videos and three-dimensional works, ‘Distant Rooms’, the fifth duo exhibition made by Portuguese movie director Pedro Costa and sculptor Rui Chafes, is to be held in Ilmin Museum of Art from June 25. What kind of inspiration will be presented by their works in contemporary art, which has often involved collaboration between different disciplines? The exhibition is dangerously dimly lit. Before adjusting their eyes to the darkness, people are likely to bump into Rui Chafes’s sculpture floating in the air like zero gravity. And they will be amazed at the weight of iron sculpture felt through their body. It is because its flexible movement flying in the wind and its floating shape free from its shadow hardly reminds one of its weight. The most important lighting…

Opening to the Public _ The official residence is a house built by the government in which the government official will live. The governor’s house in Gyeonggi province is for the governor and governor’s family to live, as well as where the governor will sometimes work. When the new governor was appointed, he decided to open the space to the public. The governor’s house was previously only open to the public on special days, such as Children’s Day, but the current governor’s house is now organized into public spaces for visitors to frequent, such as the guest room, exhibition room, café, and banquet hall, along with retaining distinct features, such as the governor’s office and event halls for the government. It finally has become a ‘living house’, where the inhabitants…

Architect: THE_SYSTEM LAB (Kim Chanjoong) Design team: Park Sanghyun, Park Changkwon, Kim Jongkil, Choi Jinchul, Gwon Soojung, Han Dongsu, Won Hyejin, Lee Hojae Location: 5, 6F, Hyundae DPT. Pangyo Store, 20, 146gil, Pangyoyeok-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea Programme: exhibition & cultural facilities Gross floor area: 2,853.67m2 Building scope: 5 – 6F Exterior finishing: GRP, double low-e glass, zinc composite panel, MPG system Structural engineer: Bosung ENG Co., Ltd. Mechanical engineer: Doul ENG Co. Ltd. Electrical engineer: Pyeonghwa E&C Interior construction document and construction: Geumgang Enterprise Co., Ltd Façade GRP construction: Halla Corporation + Factory IMS Design period: Dec. 2014 – May 2015 Construction period: May – Aug. 2015 The Museum as a Journey_ Visiting the museum can be a boring activity for the kids. They tend to have a lengthy…

More architecture awards are being organized than ever before. At the start of the new millennium, domestic architecture awards were limited to only six awards, including the Good Place Award and the Korean Architecture Award. Today, more than 60 domestic architecture awards have flourished in their affiliations with various institutions, such as governmental organizations, local governments, architectural and academic associations. In spite of this deluge of architecture awards, many doubt whether this has contributed to stabilizing the field of architecture over these past years. Many of these awards prosper, having been arranged according to similar circumstances, with the promise of interchangeable prizes, yet, it is rare to find an award that has been uniquely formulated with its own identity. This report will cover the shortcomings of domestic architecture award systems.…

Architect: Yi Jongho (Korea National University of Arts) + METAA (Woo Euijung) Design team: Kim Hyungsuk, Kim Sungtai, Lee Eunsook, Kim Youngbae, Hong Jungwook, Lee Junbum Resident supervisor: Kim Hyungsuk Location: 17 Jeongdong-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme: office, retail Site area: 2,084.3m2 Building area: 1,014.93m2 Gross floor area: 9,970.67m2 Building scope: B3, 9F Height: 35.9m Parking: 76 Building to land ratio: 48.7% Floor area ratio: 249.9% Structure: RC Exterior finishing: brick, T24 color double glazing(steel frame) Interior finishing: water paint Structural engineer: Ilmaek Construction: Goduk Construction Mechanical engineer: Jinkyung Electronical engineer: KD Eng. Design period: Jan. – Sep. 2014 Construction period: Oct. 2014 – Mar. 2016 Client: Ewha Academy Yi Jongho and Woo Euijung met while studying architecture in Hanyang University. After graduation, Yi Jongho went on to work under…

Architect: Atelier du Pont (Anne-Cecile Comar, Philippe Croisier) + Jean Bocabeille Architecte (Jean Bocabeille) Design team: Solweig Doat, Luc Pinsard, Ariane Rouveyrol, Aline Defert Location: Clichy-Batignolles ecodistrict, Paris, France Programme: private housing, social housing, nursing home, retail businesses and religious center Gross floor area: 17,858m2 Parking: 118 Structural engineer: Kephren Fluids engineering: Alto Ingenierie Construction economics: Mazet & Associes Sustainable engineering: Plan02 Acoustics: Acoustique Vivie et Associes Landscape designer: Atelier Jours Light designer (religious center): Lumesens Graphic design (religious center): Pinard Design Completion period: 2015 Clients: Vinci Immobilier, Orpea, Diocese de Paris Social housing provider: France Habitation Urban redevelopment company: SPLA Paris Batignolles Amenagement…

The passenger list of Seoul – Jeju flights, one of the busiest airlines in the world, is more likely to include architects than ever before. I assume some are flying right at this very moment. In order to save face, architects have to carry out at least one project in Jeju. Not only starchitects, but also the younger architects regard Jeju as a very important place in which to cement their fame. As you might expect, how to relate architecture to nature is absolutely crucial in Jeju. However, it is rare to observe a competition between nature and architecture. Most architects tend to adopt a similar attitude and strategy. They decide to accept nature by regarding architecture as a device to view and appreciate nature. Even the Glass House at…

Arko Art Center in Daehak-ro opened two exhibitions concurrently on the 8th of last month. Proposing ‘Refugees’ and the ‘Homeless’ as their keywords, the exhibitions don’t seem to be deeply related to each other as they are based on different genres, such as architecture and visual culture as well as different social contexts. Their connection can be found only as a result of the fact that the Arts Council Korea has put them together into one loosely defined category because they were both looking at the same social issue, ‘alienation,’ among the winning works of the 2016 Support Exhibitions for Visual Arts. Exiting the exhibition, an image of a fraternal twins looking at each other through a frosted window comes to mind. The twins have no idea about the existence…