Songdo International City is located in the vicinity of Incheon Port, 56 km west of Seoul, the capital of South Korea. The city is only 15-minute drive away from Incheon Airport, its ideal geographical location makes it a better place for business and trades in Northeast Asia. Songdo International City is known for being a tech-based, intellectual, and eco-city. While the infrastructure of the city is growing mature, the development of more cultural buildings, such as this public library, is expected to be a key indicator to carry out a cultural purpose into the city and hoped to draw closer connections with their living citizens.
It is a public space for infants and children to play. These days, children spend space at the expense of using it. Children pay for the academy and meet their friends to study, and teenagers stay at cafes by paying the fee. Not only children and teenagers but also infants and toddlers can play at kids cafes and amusement parks. In this world of consuming space, people who are in financial difficulties are not free to use space even to study or play. Therefore, we need public play space for infants and children to use it free, not consumption of space. Publicly operated spaces for infants and children should have been able to operate flexibly due to changes in the program rather than the installation of special amusement facilities at existing kids’ cafes. Above all, we hoped that it would be a place like a house where children can come to their own house and play comfortably. We installed small houses that fit the eyes of small children, and each house will be filled with a different kind of toy or play program. It is a space where naughty people can play around in their own homes.
“Cocooning phenomenon” is a term made by German Social Psychologist S. Popcon, and it stands for the habit of silkworm hiding inside a cocoon and protecting it-self from the outside. As modern society gets complicated, people pursue the intimate comfort of oneself through a slightly enclosed place than excessively exposed exterior activities.
The structural format from the “Magok Hive” is the same as “Urban Hive”, which is own designed in 2008. By combining columns and beams diagonally, it created a structural wall in which the flow of gravity came down straight and removed the gap between the stress lines. When a glass-wall that divides the interior is separated from the structural wall, the structural wall can be an exterior skin. This method is based on the principle from the Korean traditional building, “Hanok”. In the case of “Hanok”, there are the exterior skins behind the wooden structure. It can be applied at modern structural system, reinforced concrete.
Lots of brands are moving from offline shops to online shops with the trend of untact society resulted from COVID-19. Consumers are no longer interested in offline shops that only sell products. To revive offline shops, there should be special factors except selling only products that can attract consumers.
Spyder Haven, located in Namyangju city, Gyeonggi do, plays its role as a complex sports and culture space as well as an outlet shop meeting the trend.
Building on the successful partnership developed during the Hankook Technodome project – the company’s integrated R&D centre in Daejeon – Foster + Partners has designed Hankook’s new headquarters in Pangyo, on the outskirts of Seoul. The new building embraces several themes that are symbolic of Hankook’s desire to create a dynamic office environment that supports flexible working styles, as the company looks towards the future. The building serves as a catalyst for change for the company’s ongoing efforts to inculcate a progressive corporate culture.
Head:the first art and photography museum in the world which has taken a picture by itself!
Turkish Architect Öznur Pınar Çer’s firm MASK Architects has designed ‘’ The First Art and Photograpy Museum in the World which has taken a picture by itself in Seoul. Named ‘’ The First Camera Obscura Photographic Art Museum ‘’, we can think about this installation in a simple and fun way: it is the museum itself, with its roof-top camera and pinholes in exhibition rooms, who are taking a picture of the present skyline of Seoul and showing it to the visitor.
The biggest camera on planet earth is in seoul!
Isn’t the purpose of a Photography Museum to celebrate Photography? So why not create the biggest camera on planet Earth and celebrate the art of photography and the city of Seoul with an installation of a rooftop ‘Camera Obscura’ that marries past, present, and future into an experience that visitors will never forget. Photography makes our memories valuable, fixing them for a moment, while life keeps rolling rapidly in time. From digital to analogical, from microscopic pictures to satellite images, Photography has bee n freezing those fleeting moments. And, before all that, there was what we can call the grandmother of Photography, the ‘Camera Obscura.’ And it is to this origin that we want to come back to present the first innovation of the camera properties and give both locals and tourists a landmark experience that will provide Seoul with the Biggest Camera on Planet Earth. Our installation will also boost the city’s economy and tourism flow, as visitors from all around the world, and all ages and profession, come to participate in Seoul’s vibrant cultural scene and have the Museum’s as one of the main incentive s for their visit.
The bracing house is a multiplex house for earnings from leasing that can be easily seen in any general residential area in Seoul, but it was our intention to make it different looking to the typical multiplex house.
An office is a place unlikely to seek change. Despite the fact that it is where we spend most of the day, most office spaces are focused on functionality rather than value. For instance, residential space emphasizes communication between family members. Hence, nearly every home has a living room in the center which connects to the other parts of the house. Wherever you go, you must pass through the living room where you may naturally encounter other family members. On the other hand, a commercial space is designed to deliver the value of brand identity. Spatial experience of brand value and philosophy enables customers to become attached to the brand, thereby enhancing sustainability. Then what value should be depicted in office space?
Residence L-ga is located in the end of the business district of Hwamyeong-dong, which is downstream of Nakdonggang River – the main river for Busan and Kyungnam province. In spite of the great scenery of the river, the site was left undeveloped for over ten years. We created a yard, which would allow encountering nature and neighbors. It is materialized by composing a section to connote the whole. The unite has L-shape, composed with three rectangular shapes. The roof of the lower level becomes the yard for the upper level. Three sides of more is always exposed in air, and the shape of the whole is established by the stacked stair design. By its systematization, each unite forms and identical shape whether it’s located on the 10th floor or the 24th floor. The yard formed with the method is a place where one experience nature and self-fulfillment, and also a space of possibility which opens up communication with the neighbors. It has secured economic feasibility by maximizing space and minimizing the finishing material. The high sustainability of space maximizes variety and minimizes low sustainable finishing materials, creating a tangent between the business owner and the tenants.
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