Finalist, Young Architects Program (YAP) for National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Hydrologic House takes on the form of array of Korean traditional door frame. This frame had been a tool for communicating with people and understand environment for our ancestors who emphasize harmonized life with others. Through computer algorithmic software, a continual diffusion beyond the visual, material, and perceptual boundaries of MMCA courtyard space is captured and frozen in the gradient perforation of facade. One of the most popular Korean traditional frames named as Ti-sal not only give the space a uniqueness of Asian tradition, but also deal with fluidity that define the physical behavior of natural phenomena the installation will sense and react. As Korea has long monsoon season during summer, rain is overwhelming environmental phenomenon when this piece is installed. Captured information presenting by fog which is tangible and interactive expression is a tribute to MMCA as a place of learning, exploration, and experimentation where the most innovative of creative forces from around the world will be captured and sustained for the discovery and delight of all its visitors.
The main space consists of two boxes covered by Ti-sal. Each box deals with two-different-scale information –global and local (Seoul) data. Funnels at the roof collect rain and supply it to the pool under. Based on precipitation condition in real time, fog degree is controlled dynamically. People can perceive this micro scale water cycle and participate it. With advances in material, and communications technology, architectural assemblies no longer perform as impassive boundaries separating discrete conditions of occupation between environments. Combined of static and fluctuating materials, architecture becomes supple matrices for inter-environmental information exchange and perception.
Hydrologic House takes on the form of array of Korean traditional door frame. This frame had been a tool for communicating with people and understand environment for our ancestors who emphasize harmonized life with others. Through computer algorithmic software, a continual diffusion beyond the visual, material, and perceptual boundaries of MMCA courtyard space is captured and frozen in the gradient perforation of facade. One of the most popular Korean traditional frames named as Ti-sal not only give the space a uniqueness of Asian tradition, but also deal with fluidity that define the physical behavior of natural phenomena the installation will sense and react. As Korea has long monsoon season during summer, rain is overwhelming environmental phenomenon when this piece is installed. Captured information presenting by fog which is tangible and interactive expression is a tribute to MMCA as a place of learning, exploration, and experimentation where the most innovative of creative forces from around the world will be captured and sustained for the discovery and delight of all its visitors.
The main space consists of two boxes covered by Ti-sal. Each box deals with two-different-scale information –global and local (Seoul) data. Funnels at the roof collect rain and supply it to the pool under. Based on precipitation condition in real time, fog degree is controlled dynamically. People can perceive this micro scale water cycle and participate it. With advances in material, and communications technology, architectural assemblies no longer perform as impassive boundaries separating discrete conditions of occupation between environments. Combined of static and fluctuating materials, architecture becomes supple matrices for inter-environmental information exchange and perception.
Location: Seoul, Korea
Project year: 2014
Team: KwangYeon Cho, Kibum Park, Dongjun Kim
Data visualization: Noa Younse (www.noayounse.com)
Model photography: Junho Jang (imagejoom)
Co-sponsor: MMCA, MoMA and Hyundai Card as Hyundai Card Culture Project 15
Project year: 2014
Team: KwangYeon Cho, Kibum Park, Dongjun Kim
Data visualization: Noa Younse (www.noayounse.com)
Model photography: Junho Jang (imagejoom)
Co-sponsor: MMCA, MoMA and Hyundai Card as Hyundai Card Culture Project 15
