Saturday, February 13, 2016

Shaped like a book, a cultural institution on the border amongst a residential and industrial location in the suburbs of Incheon, South Korea acts as a smooth visual segue- way. Upside a narrow side, the concrete structure measures only 4 feet wide, and has an eye-catching zigzag wooden staircase from the ground floor to the 1st level.


Bookbuilding 2


 Bookbuilding 3

The developing acts as a visual landmark for a City, who lost their identity, evaluate the feeling, the architect of Studio Gaon, an old man, with no leaving fingerprints. The city Gajwa-dong was as soon as a fishing village positioned on the edge of the sea, but land reclamation redirected to the water. Overlooking the waves are now in busy streets and inconspicuously transforms factory building.


Bookbuilding 6


 Bookbuilding 5

The owner of a 400 year old residence subsequent door donated the oddly shaped plot was to the community right after the discovery, that what thought he was his neighbor's land is truly its personal, with a request that the new structure act as a shield among his house and the industrial developing next door.


Bookbuilding 4

The resulting Sinjinmal constructing feels calm and strong with his cast concrete walls supporting wood grain textures and expanses of glazing flooding the interiors with light. The zigzag stairs outdoors reference these of the historic South Korean pavilion, although the internal stairs are painted vibrant red "indicating previous time, present and future adjustments." A full-height, full-width glass door on the second floor conference room swung open to a terrace with the support of a hand winch.

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