Props (Kyongii)
| Description | First Year Studio Post-professional (MARCH) |
| Design | Fall 1999 |
| Affiliation | Graduate School of Architecture Kyonggi University Seoul, South Korea |
What relevance does studying context have in Seoul, where even small mountains are flattened to make way for development? As in many rapidly growing Asian cities, site is a moving target that flips every five years.
We looked at site as diagnosticians, working at the detail scale of a structural prop.
After constructing the props in studio as prototypes, we found that each of them had an architectural potential. Of particular interest to us was how they related to their host (site). This aspect was used to understand site at the scale of a neighborhood plot. Thus each prop’s “DNA” informed the design of an art gallery in Insadong.
“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”
—Kabir
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