New Projects
Futuristic fluidity beside ancient fortifications
- Eleftheria Square _ Zaha Hadid Architects
Spatial tensions meet the Chinese vernacular
- Zibo OCT Art Center _ Studio Zhu Pei
- Interview _ Zhu Pei + Herbert Wright
A modern Okinawan home for semi-outdoor living
- House in Nakijin _ Studio Cochi Architects
A meandering volume envelops the patio garden
- Pasiddhi House _ Rojkind Arquitectos
KOREAN ARCHITECTURE
From Platform, or to Platform
From Platform, or to Platform _ Mannyoung Chung
Rising land: landscape of the sloping square
- President Roh Moo-hyun Memorial _ Iroje Architects and Planners
- Interview _ Seung H-Sang and Ham Eunah + Mannyoung Chung, Insung Kim and YuMi Hyun
A ‘biblical landscape’ permeates the topography
- Myeongrye Sacred Hill _ Iroje Architects and Planners
- Field & Object _ Insung Kim
A research institute reconciles with the landscape
- Yongin Yeonliji _ Dongjin Kim + L’eau Design Co., Ltd.
- A Compound Body of Heterogeneous Elements _ Gunsoo Shin
Female empowerment with urban space
- Cultural Complex Space Salim _ Jungwoo Choi + UNITS UA
- The Complexities of Simplicity _ Myung Seok Hyun
The Continuous Re-invention of Space and Place
Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli
The Continuous Re-invention of Space and Place _ Silvio Carta
An open-air ‘Wunderkammer’ of urban scenarios
- The Music School of Bressanone _ Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli
Local context reinterpreted in a contemporary way
- The New Brixen Public Library _ Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli
- Interview _ Michel Carlana + Silvio Carta
C3 no.422 (2022-6/6)
Korean Architecture
From Platform, or to Platform
The horizontal platform implies zero degree or a ground where something begins. Martin Heidegger states, in Bauen Wohnen Denken (1951), that “Raum, Rum, designates by its ancient meaning. … a place cleared or freed for settlement and lodging,” and he explains through clearing, others beings or objects are “let into its bounds”. It is a ground that discloses the presence of other beings(Seiendes) without revealing Being(Sein) itself. The platform of architecture has similar implications since it is a field ritualizing the state in which something can be summoned after clearing a place. [...]
The Continuous Re-invention of Space and Place
Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli
Founded in 2010 in Treviso (north of Italy) by the three partners, Michel Carlana, Luca Mezzalira and Curzio Pentimalli, CMP architectural practice proposes an interesting combination of design and research activities. This practice is characterized by an innovative and inventive approach to design, where any new project is considered ‘an opportunity to reinterpret a space and a place’, explain the architects.
CMP’s design philosophy is summarised in the following: “the practice’s ambition is to turn urban planning and architecture into a simple, durable, organic, precise, and necessary activity, trying to entertain with a tradition dialogical, rather than submissive, relation” (from CMP website). This approach has been successful as many of their projects have gained international recognition. [...]
C3 no.422 (2022-6/6)
Korean Architecture
From Platform, or to Platform
The horizontal platform implies zero degree or a ground where something begins. Martin Heidegger states, in Bauen Wohnen Denken (1951), that “Raum, Rum, designates by its ancient meaning. … a place cleared or freed for settlement and lodging,” and he explains through clearing, others beings or objects are “let into its bounds”. It is a ground that discloses the presence of other beings(Seiendes) without revealing Being(Sein) itself. The platform of architecture has similar implications since it is a field ritualizing the state in which something can be summoned after clearing a place. [...]
The Continuous Re-invention of Space and Place
Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli
Founded in 2010 in Treviso (north of Italy) by the three partners, Michel Carlana, Luca Mezzalira and Curzio Pentimalli, CMP architectural practice proposes an interesting combination of design and research activities. This practice is characterized by an innovative and inventive approach to design, where any new project is considered ‘an opportunity to reinterpret a space and a place’, explain the architects.
CMP’s design philosophy is summarised in the following: “the practice’s ambition is to turn urban planning and architecture into a simple, durable, organic, precise, and necessary activity, trying to entertain with a tradition dialogical, rather than submissive, relation” (from CMP website). This approach has been successful as many of their projects have gained international recognition. [...]
