The Out of doors Room Pavilion / salazarsequeromedina + Frank Barkow
Textual content description offered by the architects. The Out of doors Room is a pavilion for the 4th Seoul Biennale of Structure and Urbanism, 2023, titled Land Structure, Land Urbanism, and inbuilt Songhyeon Inexperienced Plaza.
The pavilion is one amongst seven installations which were designed by internationally famend architects (together with Pezo Von Elrichausen, Plastique Fantastique, Kimchi and Chips, and Riccardo Blumer), and are aiming to reclaim the Songhyeon Inexperienced Plaza as a central experiential node inside the metropolis of Seoul, inviting residents to take partake on this version of the biennale, held this fall 2023.
Designed in collaboration between the American-German architect Frank Barkow and the younger observe salazarsequeromedina, it’s an architectural machine to sense land and metropolis. The simplicity of the sq. construction goals to seize the complexity of the environmental and cultural historical past which endows nice significance to the opening of its website to the general public.
As soon as an historical pine forest connected to a royal palace, within the second half of the twentieth century Songhyong-dong was a consultant website of American navy occupation. The location was a void, enclosed by partitions and remoted from the quickly rising city setting round it. Because the partitions come down and the park opens to the general public, turning into out there to the residents of Seoul, it stays enclosed by the density of the town surrounding it.
Subsequently, The Out of doors Room is a void inside a void that frames the historical past of change for land and metropolis. Its development assembles supplies which were repurposed from one other construction, the Faraway Pavilion, designed by the Seoul-based observe, Diagonal Ideas.
The construction consists of a body of repurposed picket components and clad in corrugated metal. The lifecycle of those components transcends the construction itself as they may keep on after the biennial closes and turn into tailored to a brand new website, in South Korea
Throughout the limits of its present kind, guests will uncover a round central backyard of native crops and a steel-made chimney that reverberates with the wind. The Out of doors Room goals to be a pavilion producing an area that can really feel home and acquainted, although surprisingly summary.
It will likely be a spot of arrival due to its location subsequent to the principle entrance of the Songhyong-dong, seen from all the neighborhood, and a spot to remain for some time and sense the sky, the backdrop of mountains attribute of the Seoul panorama, and the tops towering surrounding buildings.
This venture was made potential by the sponsorship of the Spanish Embassy in Seoul, in addition to a PICE mobility Grant awarded by AC/E Accion Cultural de España, Spanish Ministry of Tradition.