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CHEONGNA CITY LANDMARK TOWER
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CHEONGNA CITY LANDMARK TOWER
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Every
newly urbanized area requires a Distinct Gesture, a gesture which
organizes space. The gesture is never performed in an place chosen at
random. It can be a Geometric Middle, an Axis of Composition, or even
a point, not necessarily chosen in this way, but important for
different reasons. The most important reason for such a decision is a
conscious, but also intuitive discovering, and investing it with an
exceptional meaning. It becomes a point of reference and measure in
geometric and emotional space. Such a measure, a symbolic measure
which contains spaces which are to attract and become a natural
centre of emotions and energy. Such gestures were always performed in
the history of towns and places. These gestures were sometimes
distinctly spiritual, they created temples – which are places of
concentration; or mausolea – which are places of emotional memory
[often of the same social groups], or magic places. This is what
happens now in CHEONGNA. This community wishes to outline a new
vertical axis, upon which depends everything which is meant to have a
special value, but which also outlines a direction for everything
which is outside - a direction inside. The tower is to be a distinct
AXIS OF THE WORLD, a new centre of the world, which would clearly
mark Hierarchy and Territories. The tower Cheongna will be a Finial,
a CROWN of this part of KOREA and this part of the continent. So it
has to have a SIMPLE GEOMETRIC FORM; on the base, of which cross
section is oval in shape, there are placed THREE CRYSTALLINE FORMS.
Their shape is just a simple metaphor of a crystal, a quasi-regular
octagon; the distance between them is similarily irregular. The
distance does not grow or diminish proportionally. So this is not
perfect geometry. The crystals are irregular to show the lack of
perfection in nature, its real POWER. The
irregular growth of the crystal depends not only on the unsteady
inflow of crystallizing substance [just like in a school expeiment],
but also on other factors. It is a process which sometimes speeds up,
sometimes slows down, or even stops entirely. The distances between
the crystals are not regular like organic growth, which is sometimes
more intense due to the strong light. Even an irregular CRYSTAL is
treated by us as a natural perfection; just as for our human scale we
wish for harmony between the beauty of body and mind, wisdom to which
we aspire, which however we can never reach. The crystal becomes also
a measure of time on the AXIS OF THE WORLD. After all, we do realise
that TIME is what brought about its emergence. In the form of crystal
there is a kind of geometry which we understand and which we
subconsciously need. It is a UNIVERSAL need; for all people, all
races, and all cultures. This is why we call SOME MOUNTAINS DIAMOND
MOUNTAINS. This need includes the need to create crystals; almost
everyone of us has done a childhood experiment – when a solution of
this or that COMPOUND crystalizes thanks to time and some energy, and
delights us. Here are three crystals, because it takes three
repeating forms to give us a sense of CERTAINTY. Two are a
PROBABILITY, one is just a COINCIDENCE. Three forms give us a sense
of a true FULL HARMONY. Even an imperfect crystal [or maybe its
imperfection is the reason] evokes a feeling of openness, of infinity
of the process, in opposition to closing by an absolute perfection of
form and its accurate final CUT. Every tower, and especially such a
tall tower, is an extremely strong CENTRE of energy. Something
in-between the WORLD UNDER and the WORLD OVER. There is also one more
aspect, very important for those who come from the outside attracted
by the MAGIC OF THE NEW PLACE, by the centre itself; and for those
who already live in its SHADE. This aspect is the sense of SECURITY.
We feel secure in every city which has an object like this, an object
which is a symbolic, thus the most effective, defender. Every city
had such an object throughout its history, or it wanted to have it.
If this tower, THE TOWER CHOENGNU – THE SAPPHIRE OF THE WOLRD, is
to become such an object, it will be this kind of an universal
amulet; an AMULET which will offer protection from unknown energies;
an APOTROPAIC TOWER, a tower on which we look with anticipation and
relief from a window of a landing plane. A DRAMA OF THE NIGHT can be
felt more deeply thanks to it, but its existence provides certainty,
a point of reference. This is the direction in which we look when we
walk away. But this is also the place from which we can see something
more, from which we can have a full view. The TOWER creates the
dynamics of the DAY, we can sense its look and we know that it takes
in everything.
newly urbanized area requires a Distinct Gesture, a gesture which
organizes space. The gesture is never performed in an place chosen at
random. It can be a Geometric Middle, an Axis of Composition, or even
a point, not necessarily chosen in this way, but important for
different reasons. The most important reason for such a decision is a
conscious, but also intuitive discovering, and investing it with an
exceptional meaning. It becomes a point of reference and measure in
geometric and emotional space. Such a measure, a symbolic measure
which contains spaces which are to attract and become a natural
centre of emotions and energy. Such gestures were always performed in
the history of towns and places. These gestures were sometimes
distinctly spiritual, they created temples – which are places of
concentration; or mausolea – which are places of emotional memory
[often of the same social groups], or magic places. This is what
happens now in CHEONGNA. This community wishes to outline a new
vertical axis, upon which depends everything which is meant to have a
special value, but which also outlines a direction for everything
which is outside - a direction inside. The tower is to be a distinct
AXIS OF THE WORLD, a new centre of the world, which would clearly
mark Hierarchy and Territories. The tower Cheongna will be a Finial,
a CROWN of this part of KOREA and this part of the continent. So it
has to have a SIMPLE GEOMETRIC FORM; on the base, of which cross
section is oval in shape, there are placed THREE CRYSTALLINE FORMS.
Their shape is just a simple metaphor of a crystal, a quasi-regular
octagon; the distance between them is similarily irregular. The
distance does not grow or diminish proportionally. So this is not
perfect geometry. The crystals are irregular to show the lack of
perfection in nature, its real POWER. The
irregular growth of the crystal depends not only on the unsteady
inflow of crystallizing substance [just like in a school expeiment],
but also on other factors. It is a process which sometimes speeds up,
sometimes slows down, or even stops entirely. The distances between
the crystals are not regular like organic growth, which is sometimes
more intense due to the strong light. Even an irregular CRYSTAL is
treated by us as a natural perfection; just as for our human scale we
wish for harmony between the beauty of body and mind, wisdom to which
we aspire, which however we can never reach. The crystal becomes also
a measure of time on the AXIS OF THE WORLD. After all, we do realise
that TIME is what brought about its emergence. In the form of crystal
there is a kind of geometry which we understand and which we
subconsciously need. It is a UNIVERSAL need; for all people, all
races, and all cultures. This is why we call SOME MOUNTAINS DIAMOND
MOUNTAINS. This need includes the need to create crystals; almost
everyone of us has done a childhood experiment – when a solution of
this or that COMPOUND crystalizes thanks to time and some energy, and
delights us. Here are three crystals, because it takes three
repeating forms to give us a sense of CERTAINTY. Two are a
PROBABILITY, one is just a COINCIDENCE. Three forms give us a sense
of a true FULL HARMONY. Even an imperfect crystal [or maybe its
imperfection is the reason] evokes a feeling of openness, of infinity
of the process, in opposition to closing by an absolute perfection of
form and its accurate final CUT. Every tower, and especially such a
tall tower, is an extremely strong CENTRE of energy. Something
in-between the WORLD UNDER and the WORLD OVER. There is also one more
aspect, very important for those who come from the outside attracted
by the MAGIC OF THE NEW PLACE, by the centre itself; and for those
who already live in its SHADE. This aspect is the sense of SECURITY.
We feel secure in every city which has an object like this, an object
which is a symbolic, thus the most effective, defender. Every city
had such an object throughout its history, or it wanted to have it.
If this tower, THE TOWER CHOENGNU – THE SAPPHIRE OF THE WOLRD, is
to become such an object, it will be this kind of an universal
amulet; an AMULET which will offer protection from unknown energies;
an APOTROPAIC TOWER, a tower on which we look with anticipation and
relief from a window of a landing plane. A DRAMA OF THE NIGHT can be
felt more deeply thanks to it, but its existence provides certainty,
a point of reference. This is the direction in which we look when we
walk away. But this is also the place from which we can see something
more, from which we can have a full view. The TOWER creates the
dynamics of the DAY, we can sense its look and we know that it takes
in everything.
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