Gwangju Swarms

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Gwangju Swarms

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Nader Tehrani

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Urban Folly Exhibit, Gwangju Design Biennale, 2011 The NADAAA Gwangju installation site is characterized by a road
crossing with a diverse set of scales and building types that anchor each
corner, a site in transition. Its width does not display the possibility of an
intervention of any scale or gravitas. Its ground is strewn with
infrastructure: electrical posts, sewer connections, street lights, and other
technical paraphernalia that refute the possibility of inhabiting or redefining
the ground. In turn, the street edge is defined by a row of trees, delicately
placed within the remaining spaces such that their roots may find some traction
as they navigate the corner. Our project, then, is lodged in that interstitial
space, between the ground and the sky, enmeshed in the natural space of the
trees. Making use of a method of reverse casting, the form of the pavilion is
defined by geometrically precise formwork that is then filled by randomly
intersecting steel rods which transition from the linearity of a column to the
more horizontal geometry of the floating mass above. Inhabiting this corner,
the installation is chameleonic; encrytped within the logic of the branches, a
seemingly animated structure floats overhead, peeking around the corners giving
body to the space that was once occupied by the city wall.

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