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Homogenization of apartment buildings symbolized the process of
civilization in most of the Asian cities.
Maga blocks filled with pillars of uniform apartment towns are undeniably
the dated product of modernism. This inevitable globe phenomena shapes the
urban landscape into isolated autonomous urban island, disconnecting any the
interaction between different fabric in the city.
This project is situated in Anyang, one of the satellite cities from
Seoul. The site is an existing housing tower development offering the same type
of homogenous gated community . This project raises the questions of how can we dissolve the
rigid boundary created by the apartments, and trigger the latent network between
the public and private proximity in order to form a new type of urban
habitation.
The program of the project is a unique type of building typology
in Korea called Keunseng (community building), which consists of retails, after
school classes, and varies Bangs. Bang, meaning room, is a unique culture in Korea.
Since there is limited space for leisure activities inside the apartment,
different kind of Bangs emerge to provide space for leisure and entertainment. There
are Karaoke Bang, Bathing Bang, PC Bang, Children Bang etc. The Keunseng is
intensified by this kind of ambiguous public and private relationship,
different age groups and autonomous programs have been brought together in this
enclosed entity. However, the building often lack of relationship to the
street, landscape and the apartments and all the diverse
programs and users remind autonomous and isolated from each other.
A filmic analysis of Wong Kar Wai’s film: Fallen Angels was
deployed as a performative design tool. From there, a number of principles
were extracted – the ice-cream van can be seen as Keunseng building, it is an
autonomous object floating in the city. With its window as threshold, the
object starts to be able to interact with out, the user was dragged-in by the “interface”.
The user started to communicate to outside and such autonomous object began to
create a latent network and bring in users with different age.
However, in the current typology, all these different users
remind isolated and never interact with each other. Hence, this project is to fragmentize
and reorganize the Keunseng building as “Bangs Parasites”, and spreading it out
into a larger context to create a more open and engaging network of activities.
The key strategy from Fallen Angel’s ice cream van is the “interface”,
the force which enacts the interaction. Therefore the project propose 3
individual buildings as interface that deals with the three defeats of the
current Kenseng typology, they are: Streest Interface, Landscape Interface, and
Apartment Interface. Each of these building directly engage with a particular
condition and at the same time, draw people into the in-between plaza where the
most intensive interaction take place.
Each
buildings transform its internal programs into a public activate in the plaza,
activating interaction within the community. For instance, the street interface
transform the typical Karaoke room into different typologies, from typical room into loft space, to
auditorium and final an outdoor performance space. The bathing Bang penetrates
through the apartment tower, creating a unique space where residents and
bathing customer and interact.
This
project rethinks the concept of urban habitation. By attacking the homogenous apartment development by decompose and
transform the isolated Keunseng building into “Bang Parasite”, the proposal
does not simply act as three individual parasitic architecture that deals with
particular condition, nor forming constellation of fragments. It is to create
tension between the three autonomous buildings and trigger the latent network
of the once disassociated community.
civilization in most of the Asian cities.
Maga blocks filled with pillars of uniform apartment towns are undeniably
the dated product of modernism. This inevitable globe phenomena shapes the
urban landscape into isolated autonomous urban island, disconnecting any the
interaction between different fabric in the city.
This project is situated in Anyang, one of the satellite cities from
Seoul. The site is an existing housing tower development offering the same type
of homogenous gated community . This project raises the questions of how can we dissolve the
rigid boundary created by the apartments, and trigger the latent network between
the public and private proximity in order to form a new type of urban
habitation.
The program of the project is a unique type of building typology
in Korea called Keunseng (community building), which consists of retails, after
school classes, and varies Bangs. Bang, meaning room, is a unique culture in Korea.
Since there is limited space for leisure activities inside the apartment,
different kind of Bangs emerge to provide space for leisure and entertainment. There
are Karaoke Bang, Bathing Bang, PC Bang, Children Bang etc. The Keunseng is
intensified by this kind of ambiguous public and private relationship,
different age groups and autonomous programs have been brought together in this
enclosed entity. However, the building often lack of relationship to the
street, landscape and the apartments and all the diverse
programs and users remind autonomous and isolated from each other.
A filmic analysis of Wong Kar Wai’s film: Fallen Angels was
deployed as a performative design tool. From there, a number of principles
were extracted – the ice-cream van can be seen as Keunseng building, it is an
autonomous object floating in the city. With its window as threshold, the
object starts to be able to interact with out, the user was dragged-in by the “interface”.
The user started to communicate to outside and such autonomous object began to
create a latent network and bring in users with different age.
However, in the current typology, all these different users
remind isolated and never interact with each other. Hence, this project is to fragmentize
and reorganize the Keunseng building as “Bangs Parasites”, and spreading it out
into a larger context to create a more open and engaging network of activities.
The key strategy from Fallen Angel’s ice cream van is the “interface”,
the force which enacts the interaction. Therefore the project propose 3
individual buildings as interface that deals with the three defeats of the
current Kenseng typology, they are: Streest Interface, Landscape Interface, and
Apartment Interface. Each of these building directly engage with a particular
condition and at the same time, draw people into the in-between plaza where the
most intensive interaction take place.
Each
buildings transform its internal programs into a public activate in the plaza,
activating interaction within the community. For instance, the street interface
transform the typical Karaoke room into different typologies, from typical room into loft space, to
auditorium and final an outdoor performance space. The bathing Bang penetrates
through the apartment tower, creating a unique space where residents and
bathing customer and interact.
This
project rethinks the concept of urban habitation. By attacking the homogenous apartment development by decompose and
transform the isolated Keunseng building into “Bang Parasite”, the proposal
does not simply act as three individual parasitic architecture that deals with
particular condition, nor forming constellation of fragments. It is to create
tension between the three autonomous buildings and trigger the latent network
of the once disassociated community.
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