Gimpo Art Hall / G.Lab*
Situated on the southern bank of the Han River, Gimpo is a city in the process of transforming from an agricultural economy toward a consumer-based economy. Seoul architects G.Lab*’s, of Gansam Partners, proposal for the Gimpo Art Hall embraces the fact that the city is emerging as a contemporary regional hub and the design also reflects upon the region’s history.
More about the project and more images after the break.
Located on the eastern end of a city block, the art hall emphasizes pedestrian access by incorporating a friendly walk into the design. The building mass is also lifted above the street level to create a covered pedestrian plaza.
Aesthetically, the structure sprouts from the ground, branches, multiplies, and envelopes the building. This structural-aesthetic reinforces Gimpo’s roots and modernization, while creating an interesting play on light and shadow. A Floating Theater nested inside the building volume allows for varying degrees of apertures which punctuate views from the interior and reveal the cityscape below.
Gimpo Art Hall
Architect: G.Lab* by Gansam Partners
Location: Gimpo, South Korea
Client: City of Gimpo
Project architect: Chuloh Jung
Design team: Youn-Sook Hwang, Lawrence Ha, Sang-Hyun Son, Krittin Campitak, Kyung-Mi Ahn, Namjoo Kim
Project area: 8,150 sqm
Competition Year: 2009
Construction Year: 2010
Status: Construction Documentation Phase
nice pedestrian access, nice sketch, good rendering. well done..
АХУИТЕЛЬНО!!!!!!!
always love to see nice big stairs!
nice approach.
Good Luck, G Lab.
Knew I’d seen that fenestration language somewhere before….
http://www.dezeen.com/2007/02/02/zaha-hadid-in-abu-dhabi-update/
not sure about the design nothing against it though, but I love the black&white renders.
I don’t care about the presentation.
This project is only a cheap version of Zaha’s Arts Center in Dubai.
Is that so? What is so “cheap” about it?
I think its a beautiful building. Very well organized and articulated.
Ohh, you are one of the architect that support a copy and a cosmetic project.
The design is become cheaper and cheaper when a person like you accept this kinds of behavior.
The zaha pattern is only for a decorative purpose.
The entire building is supported by a straight column.
Stop comparing everything with Zaha, it seems there are no other architects in the world.
What a basic fan club, Zaha has.
well the last comment implies a list of concerns.
yay, more voronoi.
I wanna see a built project from this studio.
Intriguing approaches all the time.
Go G – Lab
as if Zaha invented the wheel…check out Biltin Toker’s 1960 design for a ‘Youth hostel on Skye’with Hadid’s Hong Kong Peak competition-winning scheme Architects Journal 21.9.83, page 31
http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/did-zaha-hadid-and-daniel-libeskind-have-a-precursor/183303.article
does anybody know with which program the black&white renders are created ?
thanks for your answers !
I am also curious about the black n white shots, they remind me of the Form Z drawings that Wes Jones does but I am not sure if they are done with this software. Any info would be appreciated,
thanks!
the black&white is just photoshop, no? with some manga pattern-applying techniques
This building would be so much better without the decorative bubble/weird fenestration. It’s highly distracting, and it’s going to look so dated in 15 years. Remember the eye-beam competition around 2000, when everyone was doing ribbons? Or PoMo buildings of the 80s with columns?
What bothers me about this project (and I speak for many beyond it) is that it’s crying for attention. The wow factor is far too much here. Compare it to something like Rem’s Dutch Embassy in Berlin, the subtlety of that building makes it so powerful and beautiful.
Renderings are just edited on photoshop. Sketch up can sometimes give you this kind of quality to renderings but its a poor program for modeling. But since its got an excellent V-ray renderer now you can give it a try.
Some additional programs can allow you to render this way on 3dMax but they’re pretty expensive.
aawesome
congrat korean people, g-lab gonna create tons of *aha *adid projects in your country from now on. and they gonna say that the design really reflects upon the region’s history
cool drawings!
nice drawings~ it would be even better if there’s any diagrams though.. wouldn’t it?
12:22 PM Nov 18th
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