Stroll from Seoul Tourism Plaza to Gwanghwamun Sq..
Many buildings make up a metropolis, and every one incorporates its personal story. In a method, they function a window to a metropolis’s tradition and historical past. As for Seoul, you may be capable of higher perceive the complicated but distinctive nature of South Korea’s capital by understanding extra about its buildings. Now, let’s take a stroll by the city landscapes of Seoul and uncover all of the wonderful buildings on the market.
The primary cease on our journey is 31 Constructing, which is house to Seoul Tourism Plaza, a brand new hub for Seoul tourism. Let’s enterprise out on our architectural journey, ranging from the 31 Constructing, designed by famed architect, Kim Jung-eup, and wrapping up on the important vacationer sizzling spot, Gwanghwamun.
As soon as Stood Excessive because the Tallest in Seoul
#31Building & #SeoulTourismPlaza
The constructing was designed and constructed following the Worldwide Model, a significant architectural fashion standard in Europe and the US within the mid-Twentieth century. The decrease a part of the constructing consists of pilotis (areas created by elevating a constructing with at the least two tales in entire or partly, or part of the column), whereas the higher has a proportional sample, making you are feeling the construction’s stability and sweetness. On prime of those architectural and historic options, 31 Constructing has undergone renovation having integrated some trendy components. Glass curtain partitions (exterior partitions that don’t present help and use mild supplies like glass or aluminum panels, particularly in high-rise buildings) a sunken backyard (plazas or gardens situated one or two steps decrease than the encompassing floor stage with an open prime to let in daylight), and staircases on the primary and second flooring are probably the most noticeable.
* Pilotis : Areas created by elevating a constructing with at the least two tales in entire or partly, or part of the column.
* Curtain Wall : Exterior partitions that don’t present help and use mild supplies like glass or aluminum panels, particularly in high-rise buildings.
* Sunken Backyard : Plazas or gardens situated one or two steps decrease than the encompassing floor stage with an open prime to let in daylight.
Upon coming into the constructing, you’re welcomed by black and white distinction ceilings, metallic columns reflecting the inside, and fancy media screens. The uncovered and unfinished construction, which juxtaposes a extra trendy environment as a way to retain the remnants of the outdated 31 Constructing. The Vacationer Café on the primary ground is run by Seoul Tourism Plaza, a brand new tourism hub in Seoul journey occupying as much as the ninth ground of 31 Constructing. You will get loads of journey data right here, so we suggest you to test it out!
- Seoul Tourism Plaza
- 85 Cheonggyecheon-ro, Jungro-gu, Seoul
- #31Building #HighRiseBuilding #FirstGenerationArchitect #ArchitectKimJoongup #InternationalStyle #Proportionality #SeoulTourismPlaza
Uniquely Korean Structure Displaying Modernism with Custom
#SejongCenter
It makes use of an architectural approach that includes rows of columns, which makes them really feel much like the wall. The architect considered learn how to join the constructing with the sq. whereas successfully separating them and used rows of columns as an answer. With rows of columns and stairs within the entrance, the efficiency and exhibition halls stay separated and quiet from Sejong-daero, the widest, busiest, and most complicated highway in Seoul. Rows and stairs join with roads and squares, resolving the heavy and overwhelming really feel of the constructing consisting of giant plenty of concrete and supplies.
Numerous elements of the constructing encapsulate conventional Korean structure fashion, together with entasis columns (columns normally present in conventional Korean buildings that make the construction extra proportionately grandiose with a protruding heart) interpreted and utilized in a contemporary method. This fashion can be represented in conventional Korean patterns manufactured from aluminum forged iron and granite on the outside.
Try varied cultural performances and exhibitions in Sejong Middle for the Performing Arts, and benefit from the number of totally different areas throughout that seize conventional architectural methods.
* entasis columns : Columns normally present in conventional Korean buildings that make the construction extra proportionately grandiose with a protruding heart.
- Sejong Middle
- 175 Sejong-daero, Jungro-gu, Seoul
- #SejongCenter #ArchitectEomDeokMoon #Colonnade #EntasisColumns #GwanghwammunPlaza
Eco-friendly Buildings in Dialogue with Historical past
#NationalMuseumOfKoreanContemporaryHistory
The museum is open from all instructions with a deal with connecting town and the constructing collectively, in the end serving as a bridge that encourages folks to enter naturally and connects them with historical past. It creates inexperienced areas from the plaza linked to the sidewalk to the rooftop backyard and makes them out there to the general public, respiratory life into the middle of Seoul the place inexperienced areas and plazas are disappearing.
What’s notable in regards to the façade (the entrance a part of a constructing with a primary entrance that determines the primary and total impression) of the Nationwide Museum of Korean Up to date Historical past is that it makes use of U glass. Whereas U glass has some aesthetic impact because it has mushy white mild and turns into luminescent at night time, it’s also eco-friendly because it prevents direct daylight from coming into the inside and solely depends on scattered mild to scale back the heating load.
* façade : the entrance a part of a constructing with a primary entrance that determines the primary and total impression
The constructing was as soon as occupied by the Ministry of Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism. Greater than 60% of current constructions have been recycled and reworked to attenuate waste created throughout the demolition of the prevailing constructing. On the identical time, the functioning of the constructing was enhanced to scale back power consumption.
A incredible alternative awaits you to expertise Korea’s previous and current within the Nationwide Museum of Korean Up to date Historical past, which boldly stands as an architectural construction embodying new values and roles within the implementation of eco-friendly renovation.
- Nationwide Museum of Korean Up to date Historical past
- 198 Sejong-daero, Jungro-gu, Seoul
- #NationalMuseumOfKoreanContemporaryHistory, #JunglimArchitecture #EcoFriendlyArchitecture #U-Glass #RooftopGarden
Our architectural strolling course is right here!
Buildings and structure type a metropolis, and cities come collectively to type a rustic. And that’s why structure displays the historical past and tradition of a metropolis as a part of town. Seoul X Archibear’s A Tour of Seoul’s Streetside Structure was designed to supply a contemporary perspective on town by sharing the anecdotes of architectural tradition whereas touring round South Korea’s capital.
Nicely-built and distinctive structure can function a bit of artwork carved in our metropolis. And in Seoul, which is wealthy with numerous historical past and traits, there are stunning buildings which can be price paying a go to. We hope that this particular collection helps promote Seoul as a great journey vacation spot and invite everybody to expertise the hidden architectural magnificence in Seoul’s on a regular basis life.
A Tour of Seoul’s Streetside Structure collection was produced by Go to Seoul in collaboration with ArchiBear, a model created by the architectural tradition and journey content material firm, Haas Studio.