Sommaire pour May 2019 de Space

The exhibition ‘Phantom City’, which focuses on the light and colour of modern cities, is open from Apr. 3 to July 21at Sehwa Museum of Art. The exhibition will be the second urban-themed exhibition following ‘Wonder City’ in 2018 at Sehwa Museum of Art, featuring 49 paintings, sculptures, and videos of nine contemporary artists who view the city as a vast mass of visual delusion. Entering the exhibition hall, you will see a series of landscape paintings of vibrant colour and patterning. Choi Eunjung combines natural elements with buildings, bridges, and urban structures to create chaotic and ambiguous scenes that express the artist’s dream of heteroecotopia. Hye Ja distorted the momentary scene of a crowded place such as a train station, an art gallery, and a park, which depicts the…

‘A building only expresses a thought, not the ego of the architect.’As he said, Choi Moongyu (professor, Yonsei University) has been practicing an architecture that conveys his own thoughts over the past 20 years, rather than pursuing a distinct style through the invention of an architectural language or the persistent use of certain materials. He sought to address simple but radical questions while exploring the circumstances of architecture and scrutinising specific programmes, and his architecture delivers and sometimes embodies the narratives of unexpected values and potential. In this Frame, SPACE would like to highlight the campus architecture that he designed by contemplating questions: ‘what kind of place is a university?’, which evolved, as he practiced, into ‘what role should a university play in the community?’…

Architect Choi Moongyu (Yonsei University) + Ga.A Architects Design team Kang Inchul, Koh Daegon, Song Bongki, Park Jeongho, Park Woon, Min Kyung, Roh Jinwoo, Woo Sanghwa, Jeon Yoojin, Kim Hyungsuk Location 163 Seoulsiripdae-ro, Jeonnong-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme university facilities (library, conference hall, gym, museum, classroom) Site area 270,595m2 (campus) Building area 5,244.33m2 Gross floor area 20,787.2m2 Building scope B3, 6F Height 27.97m Parking 130 Building to land ratio 55.95% Floor area ratio 18.66% Structure RC + SC + SRC Exterior finishing red bricks, granite stone, extrusion concrete panel, Low-e pair glass (T26,T24) Interior finishing granite stone, paint, PVC tile, wood panel Structural engineer BARUN Structure Engineering Co.,Ltd. Construction KUMHO E&C Mechanical engineer MAC&MEC., Ltd. Electrical engineer Chung Woo ENG.,Ltd. Design period Aug. 2015 – Apr. 2016 Construction period July…

Architect Masahiko Fujimori Architect Office (Masahiko Fujimori) Design team Masahiko Fujimori Architect Office Location Hiroshima, Japan Programme rental apartments Site area 1,552.4m2 Building area 705.76m2 Gross floor area 1,092.07m2 Building scope 2F Parking 12 Height 8.91m Building to land ratio 45.53% Floor area ratio 70.55% Structure wooden structure Exterior finishing Galvalume steel plate board Interior finishing wallpaper Structural engineer Takashi Takamizawa (Ladder up Architect Office) Construction Sekiwa Kensetsu Chugoku Corp. Mechanical and electrical engineer Masahiko Fujimori (Masahiko Fujimori Architect Office) Design period Nov. 2015 – Feb. 2017 Construction period Mar. 2017 – Sep. 2018…

Manhattan’s Urban Grid System The urban planning of Manhattan, in New York City, was established under the ‘Commissioner’s Plan of 1811’ in 1811. Now more than 200 years have passed, but this plan is still in effect and continues to fulfill its purpose by maintaining most of the original urban grid blocks and designated building types in each district. The building lot of the 57E130 NY Condominium is located in East Harlem, a residential district developed in the northeast of Manhattan under the 1811 plan. It’s one of twenty lots created by subdividing one of the two thousand urban blocks. Buildings in one block stand side by side, and only leave a seismic gap of 1in (2.54cm) between them. According to the city’s building regulations, every façade must align with…

An Introduction to Public Architecture With the Hansook Cheong Memorial as the starting point, now 20 years ago, I have designed various buildings – in Paju Book City and Heryi in the early 2000s, and the Ssamziegil in 2004 – that have mostly been commissioned by a private client. As such, the SSU Student Union in 2009 was my first public work. After this project, I designed various campus buildings throughout the following ten years, and certain insights emerged: those with regard to public architecture and alternatives to campus architecture, which I have thought of collecting and putting down in an orderly fashion if the opportunity were to arise. About ten years ago, Toyo Ito advised me to begin looking for a chance to get a public commission. I did…

Architect Choi Moongyu (Yonsei University) + Ga.A Architects Design team Koh Daegon, Song Bongki, Park Woon, Woo Sanghwa, Lee Siwon, Kim Juwan Supervision Koh Daegon, Woo Sanghwa Location 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme university (office) Site area 4,281.09m2 Building area 1,093.69m2 Gross floor area 1,852.52m2 Building scope 2F Height 13.5m Parking 8 Building to land ratio 25.55% Floor area ratio 166.87% Structure RC Exterior finishing granite stone, clay roof tile, T24 low iron pair glass, T0.7 oxide copper plate, T0.7 zinc, black bricks, Ipe wood Interior finishing granite stone, oak sliced veneer, painting Structural engineer EUN CONSULTING STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS, Ltd. Construction EAN R&C., Ltd. Mechanical engineer MAC&MEC., Ltd. Electrical engineer INKOK., Ltd. Design period June – Dec. 2017 Construction period Mar. – Dec. 2018 Client Yonsei University Yonsei University…

Architect DIA Architecture (Chung Hyuna) Design team Park Woorin, Shin Secheol Location 21 Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme neighbourhood facility Site area 289.6m2 Building area 143.44m2 Gross floor area 995.66m2 Building scope B2, 7F Height 22m Parking 7 Building to land ratio 49.53% Floor area ratio 232.31% Structure RC Exterior finishing stone, Ipe wood, zinc Interior finishing exposed concrete Structural engineer Teo Structure Construction Dasan Construction Engineering Mechanical and electrical engineer HANA Consulting Engineers Co., Ltd. Design period Apr. – Dec. 2016 Construction period Feb. 2017 – June 2018…

Inspired by his mother’s knitting, Lee Kwangho began to braid wires, hoses, and PVC tubes. His lighting and chair works have drawn significant media attention and from design industry professionals at home and abroad. He has collaborated with famous brands such as FENDI, DIOR, Swarovski and Onitsuka Tiger, and adorned numerous spaces including Amorepacific Headquarters O’Sullok and Namhae South Cape. Although his knitted furniture successfully marks out a designer in full possession of his identity, he dares to take one step forward. The artist deals with various materials such as red copper, straw and styrofoam, fiercely expanding his territory by crossing boundaries from small objects to human-scale pavilion. He had released a chair piece using 3D printing technology instead of hand-knitting for collaborative exhibition, ‘Second Language’, with the hip-hop artist…

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. Blind peer reviews are performed twice by the chief editors and three international reviewers. 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. Submission Guidelines Manuscripts are primarily text…

The Korean Association for Architectural History (KAAH) has conferred the 1st Korean Association for Architectural History Award on Bucheon Art Bunker B39 (see SPACE No. 610) by Kim Kwangsoo (principal, studio_K_works). The jury board carried out a document review and on-site inspection on recently constructed buildings over the past year to find examples that best explored the strata of time, paying attention to the historical contexts of architecture and cities. Aside from Bucheon Art Bunker B39, Gusan-dong Village Library (see SPACE No.580) by Choi Jaewon (principal, FLO architects) and Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture by Zoh K-Chan (principal, Terminal 7 Architects) were also nominated, and the winner was decided after the final presentation held at the Monthly Academic Seminar in Mar. Bucheon Art Bunker B39 is a regeneration project…

Uncomfortable Genius These days, where the absoluteness of aesthetic standards in design is often in doubt, I feel it increasingly difficult to critique architecture. This is particularly true when I’m asked to speak about a newly-built work, which I only visited for a few hours, and where I often desire a chance to meet the inhabitant who might share his/her own living experience—but this is almost impossible. It is also not easy to fully comprehend an architectural drawing that contains a manifestation of the architect’s inner thoughts. Robin Evans, a British architect and historian, once depicted the nature of both the architect and his/her architectural drawings in an indirect way: referring to Gustave Flaubert, he conceives of an architect as ‘travelling on strange seas of thought-alone’, and also referring to…

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