Sommaire pour N. 579 de Space

The Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA)’s first Modern History Project, an exhibition on the architectural and artistic value of the Nam Seoul Living Arts Museum (Nam Seoul Annex Building of SeMA), where the former Belgian Consulate had opened. During its two-year development period, some parts of the museum covered with white walls was demolished to highlight the unique aspects of the building as the main focus of the development process. The windows, pillars, fireplaces, and other elements of the building become the background for numerous art pieces, to encompass the stories of present day. In the busy Sadang Station intersection, replete with neighborhood residential buildings, the former Belgian Consulate building of neoclassicism stands out. The building was completed in 1905, and was finished with red bricks and stone, which were…

Kiwon Park, recipient of the 2010 MMCA Artist of the Year award, opened the doors to his solo exhibition on 6 January at the 313 ART PROJECT in Dosan-daero of Gangnamgu. The exhibition marks the artist’s first exhibition in five years since ‘Who’s Afraid of Museums’ in 2011. The ‘Growing Space’ exhibition is divided between the installation work Temperature on the first floor, and Width, a series of paintings on the second floor. The artist, who is noted for his ability to choreograph novel experiences by covering the floors or the walls of exhibition halls in a single material, chose vinyl for the main material of Temperature. Yellow vinyl at the height of 6m surrounds the gallery walls like a curtain, with a soft light emitting from within the layered…

Architect: Dia Architecture (Chung Hyuna) Design team: Oh Seunghyun Location: 517-1, Sasong-dong, Sujung-gu, Seongnam-si, Korea Programme: church and school Site area: 2,541m2 Building area: 609.16m2 Gross floor area: 3,937.06m2 Building scope: B2, 4F Parking: 33 Height: 10.6m Building to land ratio: 23.97% Floor area ratio: 70.75% Structure: reinforced concrete Exterior finishing: cement brick, western red cedar Interior finishing: exposed concrete, wood Structural engineer: TheKujo Mechanical and electrical engineer: Hana consulting engineers co. Construction: Sukjang construction co. Design period: Dec. 2013 – Aug. 2014 Construction period: Aug. 2014 – July 2015 Client: Eagle Christian School…

Jungmin Nam received a bachelors degree from Yonsei University, and a masters degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. After working in OMA, Kennedy and Violich Architecture and Moshe Safdie and Associates, he has running OA:Lab in Seoul. His project Flower+Kindergarten received the Honor Award from the International Region Design Awards 2015. He is also a professor at the Seoul National University of Science and Technology. The Disturbed Architectural Order Park Sungjin (editor-in-chief, SPACE) It seems that a greater number of designs for kindergarten and child care centres were devised last year. We are seeing works done in repetition throughout mass media outlets on a monthly basis, and upon hearing news of some architects winning awards, this reminds me of common techniques employed by architects that I had not…

The drawings don’t start with ‘a beautiful mark’. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It doesn’t have to be an accurate drawing, but it has to stand for an observation, not something that is abstract, like an emotion. Kentridge’s Studio: A Space for Reflection and the Growth of Senses Cha Seungjoo (curator, Arko Art Center) William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg in 1955, during a period charged with racism. Raised by his father, a civil-rights lawyer. Kentridge majored in politics and African studies as an undergraduate, then taking an Art Foundation course before studying theatre and mime in France. Throughout his early career as an art director in a theatre company, from 1975 to the early 1990s, and beyond, his interest in new…

The 8th of January saw the passing of the The partial amendment of the Building Act. It had previously been passed by the Land Infrastructure and Transport Committee (LITC) on 18 December and had been pending in the 2nd subcommittee of the Legislation and Judiciary Committee (LJC). This final decision took place after the legislation had been proposed under Article 51 of the National Assembly Act, with a partial amendment of the law as an alternative by the LITC, thereafter passing the plenary session of the National Assembly on the same day. As such, the Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) has passed this legislation as an amendment to the Building Act in adherence with the Comprehensive Countermeasures for Reinforcing Safety in Buildings, which was created with the purpose…

How we can show and what we can reveal when we create an exhibition considering a particular region as the theme is a troubling question. Normally it would be the repetition of communal memory, the recount of incidents, or a narrative of the region’s history. However, is there a way to discover not only new meanings at the present time, not the taxidermied past, but to make a conversation while past and future co-exist? Moreover, how might we arouse the sympathy of the audience of not only local communities, but from other regions? G-Valley special exhibition ‘ninety-nine’ begins with these questions. G-Valley means former Guro Industrial Complex, and G is for Garibong-dong, Guro-dong, and Gasan-dong where Seoul Digital Industrial Complex is located. It is a new coinage because Guro Industrial…

The new Noryangjin Fisheries Wholesale Market has finally been completed after fourteen years. The Noryangjin Fisheries Wholesale Market was located in Noryangjin-dong, Dongjakgu, Seoul since 1971, and until 2014, it had a floating population of 30,000 people per day, as the largest traditional market in Korea. However, due to its old facilities and poor image, the Suhyup (National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives, Korea) had begun to renovate the market since 2002 when it bought the Noryangjin Fisheries and its refrigerated storages. In 2008, a feasibility research and basic planning project was established, and in 2009, the Hyundai Engineering & Construction and SPACE Group were selected as the designers. The market, which has been newly designed, is a building with two basement floors and six floors above ground, and its space,…

Having studied at Soongsil University and the AA school, and having worked at Beoma General Construction and iArc Architects, Park Insoo, founded PARKiz architects Inc. in 2010. Interested in reestablishing the fundamentals of architecture, he makes every endeavour to investigate the function and value of architecture, to find realistic resolutions, and to accomplish architecture beyond the physical domain. Currently, he is a vice president of Korea Architects Institute. The relationship between the architect Chung Hyuna and the Eagle Christian School goes way back to 2005. At the time, the school set a plan to renovate a small apartment building and utilize it as an alternative school. After holding a design competition with various interior companies, Chung Hyuna was selected as the finalist (POAR Jan. 2006). Afterwards, as the Eagle Christian…

Oh Sinwook (principal, Architects Group RAUM) has been experimenting with the concept of spacing and white colour. Spacing is the utilization and visual tuning of surface, in the form of a three-dimensional object. He also uses the colour white extensively, both in the interior and exterior of his works, stating that this is because white allows him to ‘adjust to the existing context, and also create new changes.’ He describes this process as ‘addition’, and said that the process is about ‘creating something new that is also traditional, and it can also change the function and even the meaning of the space.’ However, in light of his earlier work, such as the Half-House and O+A Building, Oh’s spacing and white colour concept was not capable of displaying new directions. Lim…

Our senses open up when we sense a silence in a campus filled with sound, or when we feel darkness in a bright space. In this space time, a soundless force strongly gestures to us. Intension of the design for the BUFS (Busan University of Foreign Studies) Chapel is to create a silhouette towards the entire campus, which stands for the ideology of the school. ‘One cross’, ‘one silhouette’, and ‘one light’ became the central concept to make this a one and only being. The one and only space creates new relationships by opening itself up to the surroundings. Although it is not located on the dead center of the campus, it is expected to be the center of one’s heart as the light fills up the surrounding space, which…

In shifting the centre of one's empathy from oneself to one's family one transcends selfishness. The move from family to the community transcends nepotism. The move from community to nation overcomes parochialism, and the move to all humanity counters chauvinistic nationalism. – Huston Cummings Smith, American religious studies scholar born in China, 1919 – INTRODUCTION: Fallacy of Modernity and the Four Tasks for Future Design TASK 1: Creating a New Civilization to Incorporate Eastern and Western Values TASK 2: Shift in the Design Paradigm for a Sustainable Society TASK 3: The Good Use of Digital Technology and the Design Revolution in Everyday Life TASK 4: The Rise of China and the Creation of East Asian Design Style CONCLUSION: Design for New Civilizations Opening a New Era Dr. Kwon Young Gull…

1. The Adolescence of Jeju’s Architecture 2. Busan and Urban Regeneration 3. Daegu and Yeungnam, New Town of Emptiness 4. Gwangju and Honam Province 5. Sejong, Daejeon and the Hoseo Provinces 6. Gangwon-do Compared to other areas, Gwangju has not seen any particular national city development project nor the construction of a city landmark. However, after entering the new millennium, the city has witnessed the increased pace of city development and the construction of modern architectural works such as the Gwangju Folly and the Hub City of Asia Culture Complex (ACC) with the culture city development, hosting of the Gwangju Biennale, and city regeneration and village creation. Amidst such trends for change in city development, Gwangju is active in trying to collect the opinions of the collective governance of the…

This year, the DOOSAN Curator Workshop Exhibition has welcomed its 5th anniversary. Three co-directors and four artists have been gathered together for the exhibition ‘The Discrete Use of Reality’ which supplies an answer to the question, ‘What are artists’ individual reasons for maintaining themselves as artists within the given circumstances?’ In the exhibition, the participating artists present a humorous depiction of an art world that has fallen into the means of survival (Mok-Yon Yoo), raises questions about the labour of artists in reality (Bona Park), sustains their weary life with suffocating tension (Jiyoung Yoon), and reflects upon new senses created by the changes to the use of media in their work (Jeewon Yoon). The Artist Board Game by Mok-Yon Yoo uses domestic residency programs and art contests as a theme…

Miari Gogae (Ridge), is a ridge with six lanes in total that goes from Donamdong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul to Mia-dong. In the 1960s, during the period of urban development, a fortune telling town was formed around Miari Gogae, but it was soon dissolved and it has experienced many changes over the years. Donamdong became an adult entertainment district, while Gireum-dong and Mia-dong became an apartment districts. ‘Miari Gogae Rejuvenation Project Miindo’ commissioned by Arts Council Korea’s public art demonstration project ‘Regional Rejuvenation + Art’ has began to change the once obsolete Miari Gogae. The photo exhibition ‘Beyond Miari Gogae: 1994 and 2015’, which displays the changes of Miari Gogae from 1994 to 2015 was held with same agenda. Through the photographs of Miari Gogae in the period, you can see the…

An exhibition for the 14th Kumho Young Artist Programme 2015, which began in 2004, opened on Jan. 8 at Kumho Museum. The selected artists are Gwangsoo Park, Jaemin Jang, Jaiyoung Cho, and Suin Choi. Each artist occupies a floor and shows their works. Suin Choi’s exhibition ‘It Won’t Appear - No Show’ describes artist’s mental status about delusions on fire. Entwined white, grey, sky blue, and yellowish-green recall a landscape painting, but when the audience come closer forms become unclear and the brush strokes are rough. ‘It won’t appear’ in the title suggests the disturbance experienced internally that cannot turn one’s face away even the artist do not want to see. It is vital that the artist’s unconscious produces a chain reaction and that emotions themselves are jumping and colliding…

Kim Jeongim, a principal at Seoro Architects, has practiced across the various areas of master planning, architectural design, interior design and office planning among others. The renovation of Seoul Square (previously known as the ‘Daewoo Building’), the Cheil Worldwide HQ renewal, the Pai Chai University Howard Hall, the Deco-Netishion Headquarters, the Hannam-dong La Terrace and the Samsung Electronics R&D Design Center are all counted among her major works. She graduated from Yonsei University and the graduate school of Yonsei University. A Diffuse Mass Shin Seungsoo (co-principal, Designgroup OZ Architects) Right in the centre of Seoul, the site borders Jeongneung, one of the royal tombs of the Joseon Dynasty. Jeongneung, the tomb of Jungjong, was moved from Goyang in Gyeonggi-do as it was considered to be a propitious site according to…

The terrace and balcony, which are preferred as the best space in the whole building in the Western world, are disappearing in Korea due to the desire of more indoor space. It lost its distinct character by being covered with glass or being expanded to an indoor space. For the Namsna Patio, we wanted to create a place that would substitute this vanishing space. We wanted to create a sustainable free space, not a terrace or a balcony that would disappear in the future. Patio can contain a multiple meaning. This place(patio) can become a relaxed time in our lives, and it can also be a goal or an assignment. It can be utilized as an exterior living room, an entrance yard, a garden, or even as a domestic space.…

When Space Becomes Place Woo Hyunjung To understand Dynamic Relaxation in the backyard of the Seoul Olympic Museum of Art (SOMA Museum) in the Olympic Park, we should look at its ‘location’ first. SOMA Museum was established in 2004 to shed new light to the 1.42 million m2 park for the success of Seoul Olympic in 1988 and its cultural results. The museum also serves to promote public cultural activities and to provide a place for relaxation. 204 works, which were presented at the International Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition (Sep. 1988), were placed in everywhere near the museum. When Hyoung-gul Kook submitted Dynamic Relaxation to the nominated competition ‘SOMA Outdoor Project S’ offered for artists and architects in April 2015, he concentrated on the point that the museum is a static…