Samsung Plaza & Rodin Museum

Seoul, Korea





"…a beguiling space that begs viewers to enter and revel in its presence…"

Raul A. Barreneche, Architecture, November 1998



The Samsung Centre is composed of three buildings situated in the middle of downtown Seoul. The Rodin Pavilion is part of a larger assemblage of glass interventions designed for the new centre. The design creates an urban place along the base of the three buildings.



The design of the small glass pavilion evolved from the placement of two famous pieces of sculpture by Auguste Rodin. The tension created between the frontality of The Gates of Hell and the spatiality of the Burghers of Calais suggested an architecture of gesture and dance. This juxtaposition became a kind of pas de deux between two glass walls. Though similar in execution, the walls respond to different conditions of movement and enclosure.



The walls and ceiling glass have different degrees of translucency. The all-glass roof, supported by steel columns, is conceived as an independent element in contrast to the organic forms of the walls. The space takes its character from the contrast between the serenity of the diffuse ceiling light and the fluidity of the dynamic walls.





Client

Samsung



Facility

Museum Pavillion



Size

12,002ft² / 1,115m²



Status

Completed 1997



Architect of Record

Samoo Architects & Engineers



Awards

AIA New York Chapter Design Award 2001



New York State AIA

Design Award of Excellence 1999



The Chicago Athenaeum American

Architecture Award

1999



Saflex Safe and Sound

Laminated Glass

Award 1999



ID Magazine Annual Design Review

Awards Environment Category 1999



New York AIA Project

Honor Award 1996



44th Annual Progressive

Architecture Award 1996





..Here Are Some Pictures..

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