Pyeongchang-dong Art Complex
Details
Location: Seoul, Korea
Function: Art/ Cultural
Type: Architectural Concept Design
Organizer: Urban Space Improvement Bureau
GFA: 5,101 sqm
Located at Seoul “Beverly Hill” region, the design celebrates an effective marriage of simple forms and functions in the local community. Composed of a series of cubes and rectangular boxes, the primitive forms achieve effective spatial planning for exhibition and different functions. The boxes were cladded in concrete panels with opening at best visual connection to the surrounding and in receipt of effective natural lighting to internal space.
Extract the characters of the site context, the boxes fit and slot into the existing contour of the hilly site, utilizing the existing level difference along the path. The Twist, a simply origami structure in basic prime geometry wraps and folds around, in and out of the white boxes across the split site land lots, connecting different volumes of programs. It interacts with the boxes and create exciting outdoor and indoor quality spaces to define different functions in varying degree of transparency and openness. The Twist wraps out the entire journey through the development and varies its characters as it goes along.