[ Jongkyu Kim + Jun Sung Kim ]

Heyri Art Valley Community Center, 2002


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Heyri Art Valley is a town about to be born. The building is sited parallel to the 30 meter-wide road on the east side and the 6 meter-wide town road to the west. The highest point lies along the main road and slopes down toward the town. The public square is located right next to the Center on the south side, and therefore, a programmatic relationship between the Community Center and the square was crucial.

The basic concept for the building was the erasure of architecture's character as object and the intentional creation of a non-spatial space.

 

By having continuous patches placed along the slope of the main road, the entire topography of the site becomes clearer as form. In order to maintain a certain horizontal continuity of the overall composition, the patches have been designed to extend the topographical flow of the site, and show those gaps that mark the differential in the site elevations. Here, spaces are not separated into distinct 'outside' and 'inside' but present themselves as an extension of the site itself as well as its abstraction.

 

 

[ JongKyu Kim ]

 Jongkyu Kim, born in Seoul, in 1960, studied architecture at Yonsei University in Seoul and at the AA School in London. He is the principal of his own practice, M.A.R.U. (MetropolitanArchitecture Research Unit) and a professor at the Korean National University of Arts

 

 

 

[ Jun Sung Kim]

 Jun Sung Kim was born in Seoul in 1956, and studied architecture at Universidade de Mackenzie, Sao Paulo, Pratt Institute and Columbia University in New York. He is the principal of Metropolitan Architecture Research Unit 2, and teaches at Korean National University of Art and Seoul National University.

 

 

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