MVRDV has won a competition to redesign the Tancheon Valley and waterfront in Seoul with “The Weaves”, a design that knits together a tangle of pedestrian and bicycle paths, natural landscapes, and public amenities into an appealing, playful, symbolic landscape. Commissioned by the government of Seoul and planned for completion in 2024, the design introduces an intense combination of nature and human activity in the midst of the city. In announcing the winner of the competition, the jury described how MVRDV’s design “shows great balance between ecology and the creative program, and offers an outstanding strategy to provide urban event spaces and resting areas to citizens, encouraging many different target users to take advantage of the site.”
Located between Seoul’s former Olympic Stadium in the Jamsil district and the rapidly growing central business district in Gangnam, the point where the Tancheon River joins the Han River is currently dominated by surface car parking and elevated highway structures. A kilometre-long stretch of the Tancheon River will be completely transformed by the design, as well as a significant stretch of waterfront along the Han River.
A Photographic Art Museum should be a celebration of light and how space and architecture can be crafted by the multiplicity of atmospheres and effects it is able to create when travelling through and into materials. Our proposal seeks to provide an inspiring journey through different light atmospheres which are in tune with the specific purpose of the each space.
Stay_Soar is a multi-family housing project in Yangjaecheon Cafe Street. A total of 13 units were arranged in this volume of 286.81m2, including 12 residential units and one retail on the first floor. This was possible because the area of common use space in a typical floor plan was reduced to minimum by incorporating the skip floor layout. We tried to reveal the skip floor structure to the outside through the outline of the mass and the arrangement of the windows. An important element that determines the impression of this building is the movement in the border where the upper part covered with white shell meets with the lower part exposed with the frame structure. This is also the result of moving along the building composition of skip floor. Since most of the outer walls, including the inclined wall, were planned with white stucco finish, it was important to have a countermeasure against contamination. The construction was completed even incorporating details that are not commonly used. In addition, we even had the opportunity to sufficiently inspect the actual performance of the finishing because the construction extended over a period of fine dust and rainy season continuing back-to-back.
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We were short of time and budget, but we were full of passion.
This project was to change the unused spaces (Seongbuk Dowon and Seongbuk Art Booster Station) of Seongbuk-dong to exhibition spaces, as part of “Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism-Seongbuk Art Commons”. However, we faced two big hurdles. For the exhibition project conducted by Seongbuk Cultural Foundation, two buildings had to be designed by July and constructed by August and the budget for remodeling was far from enough.
For the design of Seongbuk Dowon, there was an endless discussion on what to leave and add after sharing out the budget for the two buildings. So we had a meeting every day to determine the design direction. According to the estimate for construction afterwards, the evacuation cost and the electronic work cost were ten million won and five million won respectively, while we only had a budget of 80 million won. So we asked a favor of a senior, who is an interior designer and fortunately, he undertook the construction work to keep faith with us. We took charge of construction supervision every day with no pay or reward and occasionally, we did physical labor to make up for the shortage of construction costs. We couldn’t leave the construction site and the office of Seongbuk-dong throughout the summer for nearly 2 months.
‘Salon Guui’ seeks a new possibility of refurbishment for an 80’s popular residential building type in Korea. The old building is 3 stories; semi-basement, uplifted 1st floor and the 2nd floor which has independent accesses representing spatial features of the 80’s building. It used to hold 5 residential units: 2 units for semi-basement, 1 for the 1st and 2 for the 2nd floor. The refurnished holds an office in semi basement and the 1st floor, and a single family residential for the owner of the office in the 2nd floor. The main working space of the office is placed in the semi basement. The 1st floor connected through cut-out slab from the semi-basement provides with multi-purposes, as a place of conference, exhibition for a guest, a space of rest and a theater for both office staffs and residents. Placed in between office at the semi-basement and residential at the second level, this uplifted 1st floor works as a ‘salon’ in the whole building.
<STAY B Hotel> is located in the middle of Myeong-dong. If it is a feature, this site is very irregular, and as a result, this exerted a major influence in the building showing an irregular form as well.
There were two main points of this project. The first was to construct a building that does not seem small on a small site, and the second was to design 'protruding windows'. Regarding the former, the distance from the pedestrian passage to the entrance of the first-floor lobby is quite far, unlike the size of the small plot. It creates a feeling as if entering a large hotel.
The Paul Bassett coffeehouses are a popular chain of cafés in Korea named after Australian World Barista Championship winner Paul Bassett.
Ichiro Shiomi, director of the Tokyo firm spinoff, handles interior design for the chain, and so far he’s completed over one hundred Paul Bassett cafés.
Loft Junghwa-dong is a single bedroom residence located on the top floor of a 30-year-old industrial building. The client is a single, career-driven woman, and she has a keen interest in well-being. Upon her request, this double height, double sided green wall was created as the centerpiece of the residence. Measuring 2.1 by 4.5 meters, the green wall acts as a screen that divides the living area from the entrance. The green wall is comprised of 56 slightly different units, together creating a continuous flow. The units can be easily removed from the wall for maintenance.
This house is single-family, detached house of 36pyung Type built-in Ilsan, Gyeonggi province.
A young couple decided to move into a quiet, peaceful place from the city for their expected baby. Ivory house is for the three-member family; it consists of the main living room, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, dress room, kitchen and workroom in 119.04㎡ of the floor. Ivory House is located at the end of the housing complex which already had been built with a number of single-family houses. Also, Ivory House is surrounded by mountains, nearer to nature, which helps you to experience the beauty of nature more directly. The land feature of Ivory House is a wide land of long and narrow square-shaped of 6x25m. Maximizing the feature of the land to the maximum, Ivory House intends to enable endless interactions with the surrounding landscape.
Centennial have the maximum floor space as a mixed-use housing built on a small land, at the end of a cul-de-sac in the city center, and designed it in a creative way to overcome the forms inevitably determined by legal conditions. In addition, by creating an affluent space that can communicate with the outside elements, the resident comfort is secured and sustainable architecture is realized by using recycled materials.
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