LE GARDEN 5th
- Architects PLAENC
- Location Bangbae
- Area 1,872.15m2
- Project year 2014
- Build Design & Build
For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity. almost like the first project i ever did, and i get the sweats, i go in and start working. I'm not sure where i'm going - if i knew where i was going. I wouldn't do it.
We think most architects are in fact not architects, because most buildings are drawings which are filled in by engineers trying to achieve the drawing of the architect. So they are not interested in terms of building. I try to highlight the quality. The difference between most architects is that we try to be efficient and pragmatic with what's available, and the other thing is that we like the whole process.
We think most architects are in fact not architects, because most buildings are drawings which are filled in by engineers trying to achieve the drawing of the architect. So they are not interested in terms of building. I try to highlight the quality. The difference between most architects is that we try to be efficient and pragmatic with what's available, and the other thing is that we like the whole process.
To me, buildings can have a beautiful silence that i associate with attributes such as composure, self-evidence, durability, presence, and integrity, and with warmth and sensuousness as well; a building that is being itself, being a building, not representing anything, just being. The sense that i try to instill into materials is beyond all rules of composition, and their tangibility, smell, and acoustic qualities are merely elements of the language we are obliged to use. Sense emerges when i succeed in bringing out the specific meanings of certain materials in my buildings, meanings that can only be perceived in just this way in this one building. When i concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, when i try to plumb its depths, its form, its history, and its sensuous qualities, images of other places start to invade this process of precise observation images of places i know and that once impressed me, images of ordinary or special places that i carry with me as inner visions of specific moods and qualities; images of architectural situations, which emanate from the world of art, or films, theater or literature.
A sense that architecture can be distilled into a more essential form without sacrificing its function; that buildings can have clear narrative properties; and that even though our work is decidedly contemporary in form and application, it is still deeply rooted in the context of both the client and the site.
Part of the underlying ethos of our firm;s work lies in a more generous interpretation of these often dichotomized ideals. As architects we strive to fulfill our mandate to create architecture that works, of course, but we also attempt to interpret the client's program in new, unexpected ways that allow for a new reading of space and of relationships between functions. Formally, we work with light, volume, pattern, texture, and material in the same way envisioning sometimes unconventional combinations. In this way, space and program both have a functional, dramatic power, which can be read as a harmony between beauty and function.
We are very involved in the selection of artwork and furnishings in our projects and respond to each client's individual preferences in kind. We attempt to create forms and spaces that are comfortable but also yield something more a feeling of something essential or original. This is what minimalism can afford, if done right. In a paradoxical way, this approach is additive in the sense that it can provide clarity and peacefulness even though it is about reducing clutter, noise and chaos.
We are very involved in the selection of artwork and furnishings in our projects and respond to each client's individual preferences in kind. We attempt to create forms and spaces that are comfortable but also yield something more a feeling of something essential or original. This is what minimalism can afford, if done right. In a paradoxical way, this approach is additive in the sense that it can provide clarity and peacefulness even though it is about reducing clutter, noise and chaos.
Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create be it product, communication or system is a result of the process of making inspiration real. I believe in doing what works as circumstances change; quirky or unusual solutions are often good ones. Nature bends and so should we as appropriate. Nature is always right outside our door as a reference and touch point. We should use it far more than we do.
Quiet is beautiful, he reasons. "I'm not part of this spectacle effect that is happening in architecture; this moment of ostentation in buildings. I feel a lot of architects have forgotten about the interiors or don't feel connected to them. I hope this will change. I think it is.
