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- Fantoni Headquarter Office / 3rd Skin Architects
- Vista-Folding Tower / Doarchi
- Jalisco, Mexico: Prototype for INFONAVIT, by ZD+A and Iñaki Echeverría
- Burnham Prize 2017 Winners Announced for 'Under the Dome' Competition
- Entre Portas / depA
- Projection Mapping Light Show Tells the Story of the Guggenheim Bilbao on Its 20th Anniversary
- Lammermarkt Parking Garage / JHK Architecten
- 11 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Designing or Redesigning Your Workplace
- This Brick Arch Installation Dissolves in the Rain to Leave a Mortar Skeleton
| Fantoni Headquarter Office / 3rd Skin Architects Posted: 14 Oct 2017 07:00 PM PDT  © Deed Studio
 © Deed Studio From the architect. Increasing the quality of indoor and outdoor spaces by mixing them together and reinforcing special quality is a result of the main idea of the project. The location of the project has a unique feature, attention to this feature was one of the design priorities. Placement of the project on the last floor of building with having space of the terraces and roof is equivalent to the closed space. The privileged position of the building in terms of its proximity to the urban spaces (Tehran's mosque, Mir-e-Jam Park) was excellent project feature. This position ensures the visibility and urban landscape forever.  © Deed Studio This great opportunity is the starting point of Fantoni office design. By extending interior space to the exterior and combining indoor and outdoor spaces we used potentials of the project in case of architecture design. The designing aim of this project is to form a transparent interior space using extensive panorama windows and to expand and intensify interior functions to the exterior via designing and developing the roof as a terrace.  Spaces Diagram The quality of workspace was the design strategy goal, using of roof space were taken into account to achieve this goal. The definition of the chat and rest space for the office was made possible by considering the capabilities of the project. This increase in quality, which seeks to increase productivity, on the one hand, by assigning roof space to users, and on the other hand, with the connection between the studio and the roof.  © Deed Studio Having a practical approach, abstraction and in conclusion, minimalist styles are obvious in both internal and exterior spaces of the project. One way to support this connection is stretching the user's line of sight and virtually placing them on the roof. In this regard, the project is defined in section, and the idea of the project is emphasized on by extending users' desks outdoors, and even defining the level of green space equal to users' line of sight.  © Deed Studio The basic idea in interior design is, defining frames and separating functions by emphasizing on them. Frames are defined in two ways: volumes and in-wall frames. The volumetric spaces are containing intermediary spaces like corridors, waiting room, and etc. in-wall frame description, the frames make access to open space and define an opening.  © Deed Studio  Floor Plan  © Deed Studio Green spaces on roof are designed based on some points; the first one is to emphasize on the main Idea of extending indoor space to outdoor one, in accordance with users' line of sight, and the second one is to define some green spots in the outer space in order to create continuous view from interior to roof and from roof to city; the last reason is the fact that green space is like a qualified wall that is able to control adverse factors in some parts of the roof which have inappropriate light or view. By dividing space to 2 different color volume, one as the work area (manager desk and private area) and the other one as seating space with furniture for guests.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 14 Oct 2017 01:00 PM PDT  © Schran Image
From the architect. Modern skyscrapers liberate human activities from gravity. Skyscraper featured by verticality makes us break away from familiar senses and consciousness of being existing. "An existence without evidences" is not only the description of varied skyscrapers but also of the life it accommodated. Architecture should respond to its specific site actively and establish dialogue with its context， thereby bringing correlation of spatial experiences and continuity of visual consciousness, which makes people, space, movement, and event tied to environment in a bigger scale.
 © Schran Image Yimeng Mountain lies across the East China plain and Yi River runs from mountain land in middle south of Shandong province, meandering eastwards through Linyi city. The site is located in Lanshan area in Linyi city. It faces Yi River in east, and in west, it is beside Yizhou road which is a traffic artery of the city. The twin-track Yanshi railway both for passengers and goods lies in south of it and cross-river bridge of Taoran road connects the airport and railway station that are on tow sides of the river. It's in the intersection of waterway，highway，and railway transportation. Views of the site are varied. In north and east sides, the straight line of the plan is folded up to the river in the east side, which forms triangular spaces around the margin of the building. to lead the people's eye is looking forwards the view from Yi river. Every folding unit is 2.1-meter long. So, the scale of it is suitable for two to three persons to have rest and enjoy the awesome view around the building. The east and west sides are folded up perpendicularly to face the river and the urban respectively. Overall, it forms a condition that the fluid facade is relatively more see-through in southeast and more solid in northwest to respond its particular context.  © Schran Image  Ground Floor  © Schran Image  5th Floor In vertical direction, components run though the whole facade. Around the top and the bottom of the tower, the facade components change from line to surface rhythmically. The detailed facade on podium plus the middle and the top of the tower, shaped the integrity of the building. Near to the ground, the facade of the podium is detailed by folded iridescence aluminum panels in geometrical form. The alternate reflections of natural light and surrounding scenes from the aluminum panels and the glasses gives the facade spatial characteristic.  © Schran Image  Details  © Schran Image  Details  © Schran Image Physically, the façade of architecture exists in a unmitigated static state but in environment, the time and space give it correlation between dynamic and static characters. When people walking around the building, its facade seems to compose a cento where light and shadow flows alternately, the void and solid mixes gradually. People, architecture, and environment are no longer distinctive individuals but they produce a vivid scene with their interrelationship. The penetration between inside and outside and the interdependence of movement and stillness give a sense of ambiguity, which is our exploration of the dynamic facade correlation.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Jalisco, Mexico: Prototype for INFONAVIT, by ZD+A and Iñaki Echeverría Posted: 14 Oct 2017 09:00 AM PDT  Cortesía de ZD+A The exercise, “from territory to inhabitant”, organized by the Centre of Investigation for Sustainable Development (CIDS) of Infonavit, seeks to respond to the diverse cultural, social, environmental, spatial and functional needs of different localities and bioclimates in finding assisted self-build housing solutions. The main objective of this investigation is to establish the legal, conceptual and architectonic processes that can be used to create these types of houses. In their next project, CIDS invited the Mexican studio ZD+A to collaborate with Iñaki Echeverría to make a proposal for a social housing prototype for assisted self-build with the municipality of Tala in Jalisco, Mexico.  Cortesía de ZD+A From the architects: For more than 30 years, Mexico has followed a model for social housing that prioritizes the construction of the largest number of houses for the lowest possible cost, leaving to one side the main objective of creating integrated communities or creating a city. The city acts as the most important pillar in society in terms of innovation, development and economic growth. Its infrastructure facilitates basic services housing, education, public health, transport, and culture. It sets a standard that is almost impossible to reach in other contexts. This situation has caused a progressive migration to cities, which has seen uncontrolled growth, lacking consideration that the territory is a finite resource, and should be treated that way. The challenge of integrating more and more people into the city has brought about the creation of models of social refuge, that lack fundamental factors for a development which integrates its inhabitants. Designed with the objective of minimising spending, these spaces are created in the city’s periphery, far from economic opportunities, with complicated access to even the most basic of services. These developments, based on a misunderstanding of the economy of these projects, have completely forgotten one of the essential elements necessary for generating a good quality of life, beauty. The architectonic design has been left out of the planning and design of these housing developments along with the consideration that a human acts differently in an environment they find attractive and satisfactory, an appealing physical context not only generates happiness but it also creates a connection between the people and their neighborhood.  Cortesía de ZD+A The dynamics generated by the developments are deplorable. Long daily commutes to arrive at work or school without adequate public transport infrastructure affect school attendance and dropouts and puts a strain on family life with few hours spent together. Also, the lack of public space and leisure activities provoke delinquency and violence in the already vulnerable social fabric. Furthermore, the fact that quality of life is low coupled with high-interest rates that are paid on properties, results in the partial or total abandonment of houses, an absolute failing of the State housing system. Housing is a right, and because of that, it is a responsibility of the State. The way we plan future developments of social interest will determine to a large degree the positive participation its inhabitants have on the community and towards a more solid sense of belonging. It is time that architecture returns to integrate the production of housing of social interest in Mexico. It should be the responsibility of the architect too, from the beginning of the design process, think about housing that embodies beauty, functionality and the makes the most resources (spatial, territorial, energetic) to generate cities, that ensure quality of life for all.  Cortesía de ZD+A For this to happen, there needs to be a paradigm shift. Building social housing shouldn’t just be about simply putting a roof above thousands of people: that is just a refuge. The people need to be taken into consideration as artists of the city, shaping the accessibility of services, mobility, family life, green spaces, the creation of common spaces, the offer of cultural and leisure activities, elements which have generally been overlooked in the model that prioritises benefitting the banks and credits with a blind production of housing and settlements which are practically unlivable. Social housing needs to prioritize economic, social and cultural mobility that exists in cities, of which housing is a fundamental element. Architecture and urbanism has a great challenge in front of it, creating cities. To do this, the city’s inhabitants need to be understood as not just people who live in determined places but rather as people with basic needs and the right to a certain quality of life, people that communicate, interact, walk and enjoy their environment. Understanding the importance that their environment has on psychological, anthropological, social and cultural factors is a good start to rethinking the model for social housing in Mexico, and getting rid of the limited vision of what life in the city means.  Cortesía de ZD+A Project Name: INFONAVIT. Del Territorio al Habitante
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| Burnham Prize 2017 Winners Announced for 'Under the Dome' Competition Posted: 14 Oct 2017 07:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Chicago Architectural Club The Burnham Prize 2017 is a competition hosted by the Chicago Architectural Club (CAC), this year the title was 'Under the Dome,' requiring participants to rethinking the radial form that has been a part of architecture for centuries. Participants were asked to develop a speculative proposal for the abandoned St Stephen's Church on its centennial anniversary, challenged with the task of injecting energy and life back into the desolated ruin. In reaction to the Chicago Architecture Biennale, the historical and typological construct of the dome was to be taken and reconsidered as a contemporary structure with an understanding of the historical context. Domes have always been an experiential space, a single volume that creates grandeur and sentiment. Both Buckminster Fuller and Niemeyer sparked interest from their domes, taking what is usually associated with a sacred space and exposing it as a bold, modern infrastructure. The entrants took on a similar task, bringing the dome into the 21st century.  Courtesy of Chicago Architectural Club  Courtesy of Chicago Architectural Club Winner: New Waters / Sonja Cheng, Jennifer Ly, Max ObataThe winning design breaks into the ground plane to install a public pool under the dome – creating a radiant space for people to swim underneath. This new environment of recreation in the abandoned church is a spectacle, an original idea to infuse tranquillity back into a place of worship.  Courtesy of Chicago Architectural Club  Courtesy of Chicago Architectural Club Honourable Mention: Dualism / John David Todd, Kevin Lamyuktseung, James MartinInverting and duplicating the dome of St Stephen's church creates a bowl that invites communication inwards. The place of assembly will encourage negotiation and understanding in the social space. News Via: Chicago Architectural Club.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 14 Oct 2017 06:00 AM PDT  © José Campos
 © José Campos From the architect. An old house, in the heart of the city of Pinhel, holds place to a new bar/restaurant which aims to be a reference in the city's historical center. From the old and dark original house, the proposal kept and took advantage of the solid granite perimeter walls and the wooden roof structure that along with a selective demolition process created a new fluid and bright inside space. From the exposed rock wall a new rocklike volume is built in concrete, organizing the space and the public/service circuits and areas.  © José Campos Thus, on the ground floor, the space for the toilets has been dug into the rock, enhancing the idea of a strong spatial and material link with the pre-existence. On the ground floor also the cafeteria/bar area is inhabited by the exposed rock on one side and by the new concrete atmosphere on the other. On the upper floor, one can find a dining room and a lounge bar area with double height in dialogue with the ground floor.  © José Campos Throughout the space, the solid rock and concrete textures and colors are balanced by the warm elements in wood beeing them the existing roof structure or the furniture, designed to create scenic moments as the cellars. The façade, facing the main city square, assumes a contemporary language which is coherent with the new interior intervention and with the repetitive composition of the openings in the logic of the city historical center.  © José Campos  Section  © José Campos  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Projection Mapping Light Show Tells the Story of the Guggenheim Bilbao on Its 20th Anniversary Posted: 14 Oct 2017 05:00 AM PDT
In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, creative production studio 59 Productions has put on a 4-day projection mapping light show, transforming the museum's iconic shimmering surfaces into a canvas for a dazzling light display. From October 11-14th, the 20-minute-long multisensory production Reflections combined music, light and projection, creating a show on the building's north-facing titanium facades that told the story of the museum's genesis and design. Using Catia computer modelling technology (developed for designing airplanes), the projection began with a dynamic interpretation of Gehry's original continuous-line concept sketch, before moving on to movements that referenced some of the most quintessential pieces from the museum collection. One act highlighted the reflectivity of the facade, enhancing its curves like Anish Kapoor's sculpture Tall Tree and The Eye. Another took inspiration from Jeff Koons' flower-covered Puppy, projecting blooming floral patterns across the canvas. Even Louise Bourgeois' giant spider sculpture Maman played a role, with its intimidating shadow dancing across the building.  59 Productions transform Guggenheim Museum Bilbao with Reflections, a spectacular projection-mapping event to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Photo by Justin Sutcliffe. "I think a show like Reflections, which will dramatically transform the iconic building of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao with hundreds of textures, colors, and stories, is definitely something to see," said artist Jeff Koons before the event. "It is really enjoyable for me to see my work covering the entire Museum; I think it works as a mutual homage of sorts."  59 Productions transform Guggenheim Museum Bilbao with Reflections, a spectacular projection-mapping event to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Photo by Justin Sutcliffe.  59 Productions transform Guggenheim Museum Bilbao with Reflections, a spectacular projection-mapping event to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Photo by Justin Sutcliffe.  59 Productions transform Guggenheim Museum Bilbao with Reflections, a spectacular projection-mapping event to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Photo by Justin Sutcliffe. Inspired by Gehry's description of the building design – "the randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light" – Reflections set out to explore how architectural and light could combine to convey a narrative in a new geographical environment.  59 Productions transform Guggenheim Museum Bilbao with Reflections, a spectacular projection-mapping event to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Photo by Justin Sutcliffe. "Reflections [sent] the Guggenheim Bilbao on a fast-forward journey through a whole year of weather and seasons with clouds whipping by overhead and delicate aurorae reflected in its tiles, subjecting it to burning sunlight and the lashings of violent thunderstorms," said Leo Warner, Director and founder of 59 Productions. "The curves and facets of the building [were] transformed into living organisms—the surface [became] fish scales, bird plumage, crystalline facets, and rusted, decayed metal, before 'breaking down' into digital particles as the driving musical composition [brought] us into the computer age." Check out an unofficial video of Reflections below: News via 59 Productions  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Lammermarkt Parking Garage / JHK Architecten Posted: 14 Oct 2017 02:00 AM PDT  © Ronald Tilleman
 © Ronald Tilleman The Assignment Sufficient parking capacity and good accessibility are important for a city. That is why Leiden is getting two large underground parking garages in its monumental inner city. The historic centre of Leiden has restricted traffic. The new parking facilities provide easy-to-find parking spaces at an accessible location which means less traffic searching for a space in the centre.  © Ronald Tilleman Design, Build & Maintain Underneath the Lammermarkt, 525 parking spaces have been realized in a parking garage no less than 22 metres deep. In order to achieve this, Leiden City Council opted for a DBM form of contract where the design, construction and maintenance are all carried out by a single contractor.  © Ronald Tilleman In collaboration with the Dura Vermeer - BESIX combination, JHK Architecten created the design for the parking garage under the Lammermarkt. The design combines functionality and mode of construction in an attractive way. Building in a monumental city centre does require extra consideration to be given to the surroundings. The cylindrical form of the garage is not only the basis for a user-friendly parking garage, the compactness of the volume also minimizes interference with the monumental buildings surrounding it.  Section In order to limit further nuisance as much as possible, various environment-friendly construction techniques were utilized, such as pressing in the sheet-piling, drilling anchors and installing concrete diaphragm walls with minimum vibration. These 1.2-metre-thick diaphragm walls go to a depth of circa 30 metres. With a diameter of circa 60 metres, ultimately a total of more than 60,000 cubic metres of soil was excavated. A pressure pipeline was installed over a length of five kilometres through the canal system in Leiden. The soil was transported via this pressure pipeline to a ground depot outside the city where the sand will be reused. This saved about 2,500 return trips by lorry through the centre of Leiden.  © Ronald Tilleman A Pleasant Parking Garage Although parking is not an aim in itself, parking in the Lammermarkt Parking Garage is an experience in its own right. The typology of the round garage means that all the levels are connected to each other spatially. Although this emphasizes the depth and makes it visible, this spatial quality forms the basis for a socially safe environment that feels pleasant and comfortable. The lightly finished parking garage excels in functionality and comfort. The routing information is clear, the parking spaces are wide and the stairs and lifts are easy to find. There is no crossing traffic and with the one-way system, traffic safety is optimal.  © Ronald Tilleman The motorist drives down in a spiral and automatically finds an empty space on the way. So there is no traffic searching for a spot. A timeline on the footpaths leads pedestrians to the lifts and the staircase. You ascend or descend a century per level. Significant moments from the century in question are illustrated on the back wall of the garage, where space has been created per half-level for an artwork that brings the visitor through the history of Leiden. These illustrations by graphic designer Tom van der Heijden not only tell a story beautifully, they also contribute to recognizability and orientation in the garage. They help people to find their car. The artworks are explained once more in the lift hall with references to places in the modern-day city that people can visit.  -1 Floor Plan Pedestrians leave the parking garage through a round pavilion at street level. By means of an open staircase, a spacious connection is made here with the caretaker's room and the parking area one floor below street level. When leaving the garage, the city of Leiden and the De Valk windmill appear through the curved five-metre-high glass facade.  © Ronald Tilleman Renewed Lammermarkt Soon the entrance pavilion will become an integral part of the renewed Lammermarkt. The new square has been designed by design studio Marseille Buiten and will become both a square for events and a park. The October 3rd fair during the annual 'Leidens ontzet' festival will once again be held on the Lammermarkt, in line with tradition, with dozens of stalls and attractions and tens of thousands of visitors. On top of the parking garage!  © Ronald Tilleman Signage Besides the design for the parking garage itself, JHK Architecten, commissioned by Leiden City Council, designed the signage in the garage. Signs, arrows, icons and directions were designed as a whole, and match the design of the parking garage. The signage is restrained in colour, not at all flashy, but still clear for the visitor. The orange back wall on the parking levels and the orange floor edging in the central void reinforce the spatial character of the parking garage and give the interior depth and colour.  © Ronald Tilleman  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 11 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Designing or Redesigning Your Workplace Posted: 14 Oct 2017 01:00 AM PDT  Courtesy of Andrea Vasquez When designing or redesigning a workplace, it is important to consider how the space will affect both the employees and clients. It has the power to encourage drive and manipulate communication within the office whilst being the first impression most people gain of the company. The values of the company must be thought about to instil within the fabric of the workspace - the flow of people or choice of colour and materiality says a lot about your ethos, whether it comes to the level of seriousness required or atmosphere expected. This list sums up all the often-overlooked questions that are important to ask in order to effectively design an office whether you are ready to start a business, moving location or redesigning your existing workspace. 1. What is your internal culture and approach like to recruitment and retention?Start by looking at your business model, your office culture and your general hiring practices and business goals. Then, as a starting point, think about the design choices that will encourage those values. 2. What is your management structure?If your company has a flat hierarchy, you may want more of an open office and nicer common areas. If your company has more of a structured management, you may want to balance open plan and closed spaces to be used by all, periodically.  Courtesy of Andrea Vasquez 3. How will your company scale in size over the next 1, 3, or 5 year periods?It doesn't matter whether you're a small family firm or a major corporation, the question is where you're headed. If you expect to grow quickly, you'll need to leave room for expansion. If you may downsize, you'll want to avoid leaving huge blocks of unoccupied space, both for cost and morale reasons. 4. Does your business model rely on internal collaboration?If your employees are engaged in constant collaboration with team members, you'll want to make sure your furniture provides flexibility and mobility. Charging capability, whiteboard surfaces, and general comfort will make these places within your office a "must-use" location. 5. Do clients or business partners ever visit?If you expect important guests to come by, even occasionally, you'll want to have an impressive reception area, a nice boardroom or other meeting area with small touches like custom artwork to help make a good first impression.  Courtesy of Andrea Vasquez 6. Do customers or team members have any special needs?If you have a waiting area for customers in your workplace, is it comfortable? Do you have an accessible bathroom? Is there space for them to work on a laptop, keep a child occupied or just sit quietly and drink coffee? How many people does it need to accommodate? 7. Are there areas within the organization in which sensitive information is stored?If your employees are handling people's financial, legal or personal issues, it may be more important to convey seriousness to both your employees and clients who visit the workplace. Consider more private offices, darker colors, and more traditional furniture in those specific spaces.  Courtesy of Andrea Vasquez 8. Is serendipity valuable?Some companies have found that it's helpful to have workers from different departments become friendly. One way to do that is to set up a centrally located coffee bar or have an office cafeteria. Steve Jobs put the bathrooms at Pixar in one place to encourage serendipitous encounters. 9. How do your employees get to work?Do most employees take a subway or other mass transit system or drive a car? Does anyone bike to work? Do you want to encourage one form of transportation over another? Do you need space for bike racks in the workplace? A place to stash umbrellas in the winter?  Courtesy of Andrea Vasquez 10. Do you ever have all-hands emergencies?If your business is one where a crisis occasionally breaks out and must be handled by everyone, you may want to consider a more open office where a top manager can quickly get to the middle of the room and get everyone's attention. 11. Where will your employees eat?Will most workers go out to lunch or eat in the office? Will you be providing free fruit or coffee to keep workers productive? Do you need a cafeteria? Will your cafeteria be a place where employees meet for casual conversations or get work done? These are just a few questions to consider. Businesses change, and you may find that your office needs change with them. But whatever decisions you make, the most important thing is not the specific answers but taking a thoughtful approach to the questions. After all, if your company doesn't have the right culture and values, all the office furniture in the world won't make a difference. Blake Zalcberg is president of OFM, a family-run furniture manufacturer, and distributor headquartered in North Carolina with distribution centers there and in California, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Washington state. For more than twenty years, it has provided affordable and quality furniture through a nationwide dealer network, offering the latest concepts and designs for a variety of markets including home and hospitality, businesses and government, and health care and education. Working with manufacturers in Mexico, Taiwan, and China, OFM designs furniture to meet the highest industry standards which are sold through a variety of retailers, mail-order catalogs, and online dealers including Staples, Wayfair, Overstock, and National Business Furniture. To learn more about OFM, visit here. Images for this article were kindly provided by Andrea Vasquez.  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| This Brick Arch Installation Dissolves in the Rain to Leave a Mortar Skeleton Posted: 14 Oct 2017 12:00 AM PDT  © EH(Kyoungtae Kim) + stpmj Sometimes known as the "Island of the Gods," Jeju Island in South Korea is characterized by its volcanic rock, stunning waterfalls, and warm, tropical climate. Here, life is integrated with nature and the architecture is in harmony with the landscape. Dissolving Arch, a weather-specific installation by stpmj, responds to the island's tropical environment. The structure began life as a solid brick vault, which then slowly dissolved in the hot and rainy periods of Jeju to produce a light, porous skeleton made of the remaining mortar which connects people with nature.  © EH(Kyoungtae Kim) + stpmj The project concept stems from the designers' curiosity about the materiality of brick and structure. The installation was primarily constructed of rock-salt units, a material which has two defining qualities: translucency and solubility. Each rock-salt brick measured 200 x 100 x 50 millimeters, and the construction was completed using a cement mortar. To construct the installation, each rock salt brick was scored on one side to ensure its adhesion to the mortar, while the cement was reinforced with steel wires. In Dissolving Arch's initial state, rock-salt bricks enclosed the arch creating a dense, solid object. Although blocked off from the exterior, the space was brightened by wisps of light filtering through the rose-colored units.  © EH(Kyoungtae Kim) + stpmj  © EH(Kyoungtae Kim) + stpmj During the three month exhibition period, Jeju's rain and humidity dissolved the rock-salt bricks, leaving behind only the mortar skeleton. As the structure began to let in more light and create a connection with nature, the experience within the space gradually transformed.   © EH(Kyoungtae Kim) + stpmj stmpj's ambition was to create a dialog in which a solid, dense object, blocked off from its surroundings can transform into a light, illuminated structure that connects people with nature. Unlike traditional clay brick, rock salt does not absorb the moisture of mortar and create a rough, frictional surface—the remaining structure is smooth. The final state of Dissolving Arch is one which allows light to penetrate in and blurs the barrier between inside and outside.  © EH(Kyoungtae Kim) + stpmj  Axonometric + Detail Architect: stpmj  © EH(Kyoungtae Kim) + stpmj  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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