Samsung C+T Corporation
Public Spaces | Housing Technology Gallery
Client | Samsung
Location | Seoul | Korea
Size | 90,000 SF | 8,362 SM
Project Description | The scope of this project included the renovation of an existing Raemian Model Home gallery and the addition of a new exhibition and public information wing.
Bojagi, a wrap, a highly developed interlacing assembly of horizontal and vertical grids, becomes the skin of this building. This design replaces the idea of a façade with the idea of skin; an exterior layer mediating between the building and its environment. The diagonals, orthogonal, creases, and surfaces of the Bojagi were interpreted into folds of the skin of this building. Intended to co-exist with the existing building, this project consists of two independent building blocks linked together by a main public hall. One block contains the model homes and an auditorium, all housed within the existing structure, while the 2nd block contains future home models, exhibition areas, and commercial offices all within the boundaries of a new building. The new gallery is accessed via a diagonally piercing ramp leading from the main street and a set of coaxial ascending stairs at the side of the complex. The footprint of the building has been minimized at this very important corner, to blur the boundary separating the street and the new block and to create a new edge. Thus an elevated entrance to the new block is inserted into the longitudinal façade of the building.
The interior of this design features an open 3-story atrium space, penetrated by inter-connecting bridges on the first and second floors. A gently rising loop of ramps, which continue uninterruptedly from the 1st-floor main hall to the 2nd-floor exhibitions and back to the main atrium, is reminiscent of the maze-like landscape of the roads, streets, and back-streets of Seoul.
