What sort of constructions had been awarded of on the 2022 Seoul Structure Awards?
Yearly since 1979, the Seoul Structure Awards have acknowledged metropolis constructions that boast aesthetic magnificence and technological development whereas additionally including to the richness of life for locals and residents alike. This award signifies not solely the invention of recent and exquisite constructions, but additionally factors to the necessity to regularly construct areas within the metropolis which can be public-friendly.
So, what sorts of constructions have been awarded, and the way are public-friendly areas being created?
This 12 months, varied constructions displaying an excellent magnificence whereas sustaining a kind of public profit for the area people acquired award recognition as a part of the 40th Seoul Structure Awards. And for our first episode of the Seoul Structure Tour sequence, we’ll take an up-close take a look at a few these winners at the moment open to the general public, together with the Kim Geun-tae Memorial Library (first prize winner & recipient of the Citizen Appreciation Particular Award) and the Jungnang Mang-u Area (second prize winner & recipient of the Citizen Appreciation Particular Award).
Larchiveum : Embraces Nature with Open Arms
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The ‘Kim Geun-tae Memorial Library-Archives’, which is situated on the nook of the way in which going to Bukhansan Nationwide Park, close by Dobongsan Mountain, is a public house open for each residents and trekkers mountaineering via the world. As a larchiveum, Kim Geun-tae Memorial Library-Archives, capabilities as a library for studying, in addition to a museum conveying tales of democracy and human rights, and an artwork gallery for appreciating the humanities.
*Larchiveum : A mixture of the phrases “library”, “archive”, and “museum”, which means a tradition advanced serving as a library, archive, and a museum.
The exterior of the ‘Kim Geun-tae Memorial Library-Archives’ is comprised of a large glass home windows put in inside a gridded concrete wall that faces the highway. These home windows play a job of connecting the inside and exterior by welcoming within the daylight and the pure surroundings outdoor. The concrete wall across the glass protrudes from the constructing, and since it’s stacked in a number of layers like dominos, it creates a three-dimensional impact whereas trying in a different way relying on the angle from which the constructing is seen.
Largely, the 2 buildings of the library are related by a bridge. Audiences and guests are then in a position to benefit from the house utilizing the route circulating inside. A ‘courtyard’ naturally shaped on the heart as soon as the 2 constructing had been bridged collectively. It’s probably the most spacious space of the Kim Geun-tae Memorial Library-Archives. The roofless courtyard additionally permits daylight to come back in and the wind to blow via, seemingly increasing the library grounds past the constructing partitions. Simply as present in a library and an artwork gallery, the set up work is situated on the heart like an emblem.
* Courtyard : An open space enclosed by constructing partitions.
If you get to rooftop house known as ‘sanbaramgil (manner of the mountain wind), the sweeping panoramic view of Bukhansan Mountain with none obstacles in sight. Just like the identify itself, it’s as contemporary because the wind blowing all through the mountainside. The steps connecting the rooftop to the terrace on the decrease ground function each, a passage to maneuver round, in addition to a multipurpose house. Regardless of the world having but been opened, it’s set for use as a venue for future performances and occasions, creating a singular cultural house with the pure backdrop of the mountains.
Handle 14 Dobogsan-gil, Dobong-gu, Seoul
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After Manguri closed in 1973 which was used as a cemetery for a very long time, it was reborn because the Mang-U Historical past & Tradition Park to honor the activists that gave their lives throughout Korea’s independence motion. Now, the graves of activists Yu Gwan-sun, Han Yong-un, Ahn Chang-ho and Bang Jeong-hwan, who partook in Korea’s resistance to overseas occupation by the use of writing novels, poetry, or via faith, are enshrined. The Jungnang Mang-u Area primarily serves as, a spot of meditation newly created to honor the sacrifices of those historic figures whereas strolling amid the calm nature of Mangusan Mountain.
Spanning throughout the foot of Mangusan Mountain, Junngnang Mang-u Area kinds concise and straight strains comprised of the roof, pillars, and the wall floor. Colonnades of those elongated straight strains stand in a row, evenly spaced, making a kind of monotonous rhythm. The realm of a colonnade establishes an area that’s seemingly each indoors and outdoor whereas appearing as a central location that welcomes guests. The sunshine and shadows forged on the colorless concrete and metallic wall floor add to the general move and design of the constructing’s construction.
* Colonnade : Pillars that stand in a row that assist a roof or different construction above.
The 2 plenty that seem like sitting throughout the house of the colonnades are the place applications are held. The primary being an administration constructing that offers in holding the grounds of gravesites and holding memorial providers; whereas the second being an exhibition constructing the place the works of literary folks enshrined in Manguri are on show. The second ground of the 2 plenty, which is product of glass on all sides, is of course fused with the environment because the panorama displays from the glass home windows slightly than revealing its structure.
* Mass : A time period used to distinguish the house of a construction.
Junngnang Mang-u Area is designed conveying a relaxed environment that matches effectively with the memorial space, but gives up a dynamic ambiance as effectively. Based on the time of day, gentle and shadows are forged over the shallow pool of water on the heart. The ripples over the floor of the water that sway on the constructing’s floor because of the mirrored gentle, add a way of vitality to the seren house. That calm swaying created from the sunshine and shadows as nature sits silently invoke a sense of ease that frees your thoughts from sophisticated ideas.
Handle 2, Mangu-ro 91-gil, Jungnang-gu, Seoul
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