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This project is to renovate the existing factory building and build new buildings around it to create a space composed of galleries and commercial facilities. The old building was a cosmetic factory with a steel structure. The interior of the factory was full of unknown manufacturing facilities, but it had the ability to be completely empty as there were no internal pillars.
The most important thing in this project was to preserve the 'emptiness' even after renovation. If this space were to be filled with new flooring material, a wall separating the program had been built, and all uses were put in, it was clear that the empty capacity of the old factory plan would be lost.
This project is to renovate the existing factory building and build new buildings around it to create a space composed of galleries and commercial facilities. The old building was a cosmetic factory with a steel structure. The interior of the factory was full of unknown manufacturing facilities, but it had the ability to be completely empty as there were no internal pillars.
The most important thing in this project was to preserve the 'emptiness' even after renovation. If this space were to be filled with new flooring material, a wall separating the program had been built, and all uses were put in, it was clear that the empty capacity of the old factory plan would be lost.
Wall
The walls break as they approach the center. The wall exists to create a room, but at the same time to break it around the center. When the user stands in the center of space, the feeling is 'emptiness'. These voids existed before the renovation.
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Facade
The facades of one renovation and four new buildings are all stucco finish. I wanted the different buildings to look alike, but not the same. This required an all-encompassing morphogenetic logic. The self-generated logic helps to effectively overcome internal doubts about form formation when designing a façade.
The starting point takes place on the new floor plan of an existing factory building. The decorative columns and beams of the façade grow from the location of walls and slabs. The walls and slabs meet in a grid pattern, and the resulting grid gives order to the building façade. At the point where the column meets the slab, a rectangular overhang is added. This rectangle has a different texture than the whole. It is the birth of new material(what it looks like). I ordered 5 buildings.
‘Facade decoration should describe the location of internal columns and slabs. And decorate the facets or spots where they meet with another material with a different texture.’
With this logic, the rest of work is surprisingly easy. The form logic of the first building affects the neighboring buildings. When this happens, the shape of each building becomes a response to the previous shape. Descriptions of each building are in the previous building.
The facades of one renovation and four new buildings are all stucco finish. I wanted the different buildings to look alike, but not the same. This required an all-encompassing morphogenetic logic. The self-generated logic helps to effectively overcome internal doubts about form formation when designing a façade.
The starting point takes place on the new floor plan of an existing factory building. The decorative columns and beams of the façade grow from the location of walls and slabs. The walls and slabs meet in a grid pattern, and the resulting grid gives order to the building façade. At the point where the column meets the slab, a rectangular overhang is added. This rectangle has a different texture than the whole. It is the birth of new material(what it looks like). I ordered 5 buildings.
‘Facade decoration should describe the location of internal columns and slabs. And decorate the facets or spots where they meet with another material with a different texture.’
With this logic, the rest of work is surprisingly easy. The form logic of the first building affects the neighboring buildings. When this happens, the shape of each building becomes a response to the previous shape. Descriptions of each building are in the previous building.
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Box
Unlike the complex program of renovation buildings, each of the newly built buildings is given a single program (wine shop, cafe, art gallery, etc.). So these buildings have very few interior walls. After discussing the maximum volume required with the client, we move on to the furniture design stage. And in many cases, furniture does the job better. If both architecture and furniture can do their job well in solving a particular problem, it is much more economical for furniture to do the job. Furniture may be used elsewhere in the distant future. The building must be demolished.
Plan
The plan came into being for this reason.
‘In an easy-to-build form, to accommodate the programs, but to preserve the expansiveness of the existing factory’
The plan came into being for this reason.
‘In an easy-to-build form, to accommodate the programs, but to preserve the expansiveness of the existing factory’
Please Imagine you are standing in the center of a floor plan. There is a bakery and cafe next to it, and there is also an exhibition space. But nothing back and forth. This large space is a void that has existed before. The same goes for going upstairs. The walls along the existing columnar columns break as they approach the center. The walls are there to make the room, but at the same time to break it in the middle. You can feel the same feeling you felt when you first stood in the center on the second floor. This is because the interior walls do not completely block the user when standing at a certain point, allowing the user to fully feel the entire space.
There is a wall beyond the wall, and there are open spaces between the walls, respectively. Some of them will be exhibition spaces, others will be bakeries, others will be cafes, etc. Each user can enjoy the totality of "span" and enter the desired facility.
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This space is a void that has existed before.
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The glass greenhouse has pots resembling the inner wall. This is a joke only we know.
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Site Plan
Users must go through the renovation building to enter the courtyard of the site. This building is both a building and a huge entrance. As users pass through the building(entrance), all newly built buildings are scattered around the edge of the site. Each building is connected by a circular promenade. The heart of the courtyard is completely empty. This is not same case with void in renovation buildings. Leaving it empty is good for using that area, and it's a lot easier than building something there.
The client is also thinking of putting in a large merry-go-round in the future. A big 'merry-go-round' doesn't matter to me, but it's pretty meaningful to have a place where a 'big' merry-go-round could fit in.
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Program:
Cultural
complex (art gallery, cafe, bakery, wineshop, office)
Project Location: Gimpo, South Korea
Client : Forerium
Site Area : 7,200 m2
Built Area :
A Building(Renovation) / 900 m2
B Building / 200 m2
C Building / 120 m2
D Building / 103 m2
E Building / 45 m2
Architecture Design : Studio Studio
Construction Documents with OFF studio (off.dhvm@gmail.com)
Graphic Design : PACAY PACAY (pacaypacay.works@gmail.com)
All Photo by Park Sehee (seheee_p@naver.com)
Project Location: Gimpo, South Korea
Client : Forerium
Site Area : 7,200 m2
Built Area :
A Building(Renovation) / 900 m2
B Building / 200 m2
C Building / 120 m2
D Building / 103 m2
E Building / 45 m2
Architecture Design : Studio Studio
Construction Documents with OFF studio (off.dhvm@gmail.com)
Graphic Design : PACAY PACAY (pacaypacay.works@gmail.com)
All Photo by Park Sehee (seheee_p@naver.com)