7/3/2023 0 Comments Software architect![]() ![]() ‘ The enduring quality of the hardware and possibility for future adaptation of the software is a strongly sustainable concept that will allow the building to evolve over time, ensuring its long life and purpose. This top-lit atrium can be easily transformed into an events space while giving access to the other public areas within the building. Moving on to the upper levels, the first two floors of the ‘K-Project’ building form a public cultural multiplex, a ring of retail and cultural activities organized around the central covered square. Meanwhile, the surrounding organic urban fabric extends to the building’s lower levels, which will be permeable and open to the public. For that, the architectural team proposes three urban plazas to expand the public realm around the site’s perimeter and serve as entrance courtyards. The curtain wall system between the hardware floors is designed to break down the scale of the superstructure and add diversity to the envelope,’ notes the practice. While recessed façades create outdoor terraces and gardens, encouraging social interaction, flush façades are covered in louvers to reduce light reflection and solar heat gain.Īs part of the Seongsu district, the new Mirae Asset Global Investments headquarters will look to incorporate and enhance the diverse character of this eclectic neighborhood. ‘ The lightweight structure supports the flexible configuration and reconfiguration of workspaces, allowing for growth and adaptation to future ways of working and collaborating. ![]() Meanwhile, the software features a flexible floor system built between the hardware slabs as mezzanine levels, typically two between each structural floor. The hardware comprises five large open-plan floors served by eight vertical cylindrical cores containing circulation and services. ‘K-Project’ headquarters | renderings © Artefactory Lab, Brickĭavid Chipperfield Architects joined forces with a group of local experts, including Samoo Architects and Engineers, to devise an infrastructural concept for ‘K-Project’ revolving around ‘hardware’ and ‘software’ layers. This occurs visually – through its dynamic façades – and also programmatically – through the multi-use atrium and cultural multiplex, which build on the life of the surrounding city. Indeed, rather than trying to create a singular and fixed architectural image, the ‘K-Project’ concept uses the life and energy of the IT company and that of the neighborhood to shape a strong identity for the headquarters. The practice designed the project in close collaboration with local architects and consultants, conceiving it as a piece of infrastructure with the flexibility to accommodate the company’s diverse range of activities, staff, and visitors, both now and in the future. ‘K-project’ by david chipperfield architects + Samoo Architects and EngineersĮnvisioned as a competition entry for Mirae Asset Global Investments, a South Korean IT company, ‘K-Project’ by David Chipperfield Architects takes shape as a dynamic headquartersin the Seongsu district of Seoul. ![]()
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