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Querencia Neighborhood Facility / L'eau Design + Dongjin Kim (Hongik University)

Hana Abdel — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 23:00:00 +0000

Self-drawing Life Pattern and Scenery

Jeju Narnia / Dongjin Kim (Hongik University) + L'eau design

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 20:00:00 +0000

Narnia is an imaginary land created by a space of fantasy. As vivid stories overlap with actual places, the epic scenery of Narnia's program box makes one remember the space that appears in reality, as a fantasy. Like Jean Baudrillard said, perhaps hyper-reality is being used as a strategy to conceal reality in the real world. Just as Disneyland exists, imitating children, to turn adults' childishness into fantasy, we dream of unfamiliar routines in an imaginary world created by hyperreality, which feels more real than reality.

ID Hospital / Dongjin Kim + L'eau Design

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:00:00 +0000

So far, the beauty was like that an object reproduces the sublimity of nature or reaches to the ideal aesthetic standard like the golden ratio. However, the contemporary art seems to keep the distance from the previous beauty. Modern architect, Adolf Loos, who said that ‘the decorations are the sins’, discussed the value of the architectural aesthetic in tune with the time. But, whenever we see high-rise buildings composing the urban concrete jungle, they just generate individual aesthetic values of the sculptures and showy images like a nightclub, they actually have no concern about the intrinsic value requested by the present day. The site is located in the centre of the Gangnam Daero and in a row of high rise office buildings. Due to the globalization of the Korean medical technology of cosmetic surgery, a new type plastic surgery hospital building that is connected with the associated medical facilities and has a total management program integrated with beauty and care is emerging in the Gangnam area.