BOUTIQUE MONACO

A mass building accomodating residential, office, commercial and cultural activities located in the heart of the Seoul metropolitan life in South Korea.

Unlike the existing high-rises where one is segregated from the outside world as soon as they leave the ground floor, Boutique Monaco is a building where at each level will be a vertical open space accessible from different spots in the floor. The exterior, designed in an orthogonal pattern in the interest of efficiency in space allocation, is intended to strike a balanced harmony with the surrounding box-type high-rises.

Around 172 units are created in 49 different types and sizes and interconnected as if in an enormous puzzle. At the same time, different types of internal/external, private/public areas have been installed.

TOWERS IN THE PARK: BY MASS STUDIES

Towers in the park is a proposal that attempts to unite open space with buildings and buildings with open space. It is trying to solve the increasing problem of overpopulated areas within cities where finding abit of green space is difficult.

The towers in the park typology has been broadly applied in large cities across Asia, including Seoul, considered representative of superior quality open space while satisfying quantitative demands in these overpopulated areas. It consists of two very contrasting elements: the park represents a public space, while the rising towers are an accumulation of individual dwelling units and demarcated private space. Problematic in the engagement of these two static and seemingly opposing aspects is the lack of an intermediary space or structure that fosters the generation of spontaneous social interaction. Seoul Commune 2026 solves this problem by connecting and balancing the two elements (towers and park). The creation of interjunctions between interior/exterior and public/private space on a variety of scales accommodates variousresidential activities and facilitates spontaneous social interactions.

OUT OF THE ORDINARY: SPECTACULAR CRAFTS

ANNIE CATTRELL

Her work is about capturing moments in time. She is a sculptor and in this exhibition, she worked with glass. She produced beautiful glass sculptures with what looked like floating clouds trapped inside.

'' I choose the familiar, for example a cloud. so whatever language you speak, there is a kind of universal understanding. It is the transformation and freezing into three- dimentions of this iconographic subject matter that interests me: What happens when you contemplate something you think you know but shouldn't really be seeing this way. This 3 dimensional vantage point allows the viewer to examine the subtle shifts and rhythms which ceaselessly occur in the natural worl and within the body.'' Anne Cattrell

OUT OF THE ORDINARY: SPECTACULAR CRAFT

ANNE WILSON

The scale of Anne Wilsons work in the exhibition was immediately easy to take in . It was more of a landscape scene together with an animation. I loved how delicate and carefully planned everything in the composition of the landscape was. It looked like a magical landscape.

For this installation, Wilson and her team of assistants spent a week pinning into place thousands of tiny parts-webs of black lace, crocheted thread or and netting, to form a topography or large map like drawing.