LE GARDEN 2nd
- Architects PLAENC
- Location Bangbae
- Area 2,075.6m2
- Project year 2010
- Build Design & Build
The most incredible architecture is the architecture of Self, which is ever changing, evolving, revolving and has unlimited beauty and light inside which radiates outwards for everyone to see and feel. With every in breathe you are adding to your life and every out breathe you are releasing what is not contributing to your life. Every breathe is ar re-birth.
While a common reaction to seeing a thing of beauty is to want to buy it. our real desire may be not so much to own what we find beautiful as to lay permanent claim to the inner qualities it embodies. Owning such an object may help us realise our ambition of absorbing the virtues to which it alludes, but we ought not to presume that those virtues will automatically or effortlessly begin to rub off on us through tenure. Endeavouring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love. What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically possess, the object and places that touch us through their beauty.
Design has gone viral in a big way. But the design community is stranded in an older idea about design and an older behaviour.
Our economy and our ways of producing have changed so radically, so we need a new concept of design. And the only way to get the bottom of this is by expanding the discussion beyond the industrial design of the last 200 years and going back to the roots of what design is. We want people to come away from our show feeling the need to invent new concepts of design. We need to gather the troops, because we're in an extreme, shocking and scary world where the old concept of good design is no longer very good. It's emergency button time, and it's exciting.
"All these must be built with due reference to durability, convenience, and beauty. Durability will be assured when foundations are carried down to the solid ground and materials wisely and liberally selected; convenience, when the arrangement of the apartments is faultless and presents no hindrance to use, and when each class of building is assigned to its suitable and appropriate exposure; and beauty, when the appearance of the work is pleasing and in good taste, and when its members are in due proportion according to correct principles of symmetry.
"All modern creations must correspond to the new materials and demands of the present if they are to suit modern man; they must illustrate our own better, democratic, self-confident, ideal nature and take info account man's colossal technical and scientific achievements, as well as his thoroughly practical tendency that is surely self-evident!"
"All modern creations must correspond to the new materials and demands of the present if they are to suit modern man; they must illustrate our own better, democratic, self-confident, ideal nature and take info account man's colossal technical and scientific achievements, as well as his thoroughly practical tendency that is surely self-evident!"
You could say that my aim is 'to recover the place'. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most important aspect. I think my architecture is some kind of frame of nature. With it, we can experience nature more deeply and more intimately. Transparency is a characteristic of our architecture; I try to use light and natural materials to get a new kind of transparency.