THE EXPERIENCE OF FAILURE AND A HISTORY OF EVOLUTION: A ROUNDTABLE IN CELEBRATION OF THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF HAEAHN
Inertia & Resilience: Redefining Typology Kim Taeman (Kim): Browsing the many public headquarters and office buildings designed by HAEAHN Architecture, one thing that is most notable is a process of questioning and reinterpreting the typology thought to be appropriate at the time.
I would like to build a discussion around the built projects as well as the design proposals for competitions.
An Seongho (An): I first want to touch on the Job World youth experience centre. When I embarked upon this project, I was struck by the fact that visitors would be able enjoy actual work experience once we had created a city-like exhibition space in which work could actually take place.
It was with this in mind that we ended up creating a small city consisting of numerous void spaces which function as a courtyard or urban square, opening up more spaces to the kids (as the most frequent users). However, the stereotypical notion of an exhibition hall as a white cube gave rise to a lot of questions related to whether such a structure could interfere with the functional potential of these voids.
Yoon Sehan (Yoon): Our proposal is of an evolving type that would be able to accommodate a wide range of behaviours and transformations. The lifespan of a building can be 50 or 100 years, but the contents within can be reworked indefinitely. So, is
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