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| Korea Pavilion at Shanghai World Expo 2010 |
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| This week’s round up kicks off with the magnificent Korea Pavilion – a collaboration between Mass Studies Architects and Arup engineering. The rich, vibrant and all around cheery structure has been hugely popular with expo visitors due to its vivid colour pallet and interior-exterior design. The 6,000 sq m site boasts a structure that appears classically white from 'outside' and multi-tonal from 'inside', composed of 40,000 aluminium panels designed or selected by Korean artist Ik-joong Kang. It is these individually hand-picked tiles that encapsulate the Korea Pavilion’s sub-theme, as Arup explain: “the pavilion is an amalgamation of ‘sign’ and ‘space’ where signs become spaces and spaces become signs. The Korean alphabet Han-geul constitutes the element of ‘sign’, and their beautiful arrangement constitutes the ‘space’”. Unlike many pavilions at the Shanghai Expo, the exhibition space within the Korea pavilion is not restricted to one specific area. Instead, the building plays on inside-outside spaces, creating a continuous open-air passage throughout the 6,000 sq m site. |
| Posted by: 3D-Archive | 04/06/2010 09:27 |
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