Park1538 is located in a city with a long history of steel. The project turns this industrial past into a cultural place open to the public and introduces visitors to the material, the process, and the history of making steel. Steel is often seen as heavy and rigid, but this project shows another side of the material by expressing flexibility through form and space. A cantilever hall creates an open plaza below, while vertical ribs guide visitors through layered spaces and link the different levels of the building.
Designed by Unsangdong Architects
Recognized by A' Design Award.
UnSangDong Architects is the experimental group organized to realize conceptual architecture with variable possibilities of cultural contents. The main research and project of Unsangdong Architects is based on the diversity of architecture. In 2007, Unsangdong Architects received AR Awards from "Architectural Review" which is world-famous architectural award. UnSangDong Architects reveived Vanguard Award from Architectural Record that is awarded to innovative architects in the word in 2006. As the first lecturer amongst the Korean architects. Also Unsangdong Architects gave a lecture for RIBA in 2008. Jang introduced the idea of “space coordinator” and showed experimental works at “Ssamzie Project”, the Seoul Museum of Art “Cheonggyechun” exhibition and the “Preliminary Aleart” exhibition.
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