DONGDAEMUN DESIGN PLAZA (DDP) DESIGN BY ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
DONGDAEMUN DESIGN
PLAZA (DDP) DESIGN BY ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
Seoul, Korea
The DDP has
been designed as a cultural hub at
the centre of Dongdaemun, an historic district of Seoul that is now renowned
for its 24-hour shopping and cafes. DDP is a place for people of all ages; a catalyst for the instigation and exchange of
ideas and for new technologies and media to be explored. The variety of public
spaces within DDP include Art/Exhibition Halls, Conference Hall, Design Museum/Exhibition
Hall/Pathway, Design Labs & Academy Hall, Media Centre, Seminar Rooms and
Designers Lounge, Design Market open 24 hours a day; enabling DDP to present the
widest diversity of exhibitions and events that feed the cultural vitality of
the city.
The DDP is an
architectural landscape that revolves around the ancient city wall and cultural
artefacts discovered during archaeological excavations preceding DDP’s
construction. These historic features form the central element of DDP’s composition; linking the park,
plaza and city together.
The design is
the very specific result of how the context, local culture, programmatic
requirements and innovative engineering come together - allowing the
architecture, city and landscape to combine in both form and spatial experience
– creating a whole new civic space for the city.
The DDP Park
is a place for leisure, relaxation and refuge - a new green oasis within the
busy urban surroundings of Dongdaemun. The design integrates the park and plaza
seamlessly as one, blurring the boundary between architecture and nature in a continuous, fluid landscape. Voids in the
park’s surface give visitors glimpses into the innovative world of design
below, making the DDP an important link between the city’s contemporary
culture, emerging nature and history.
The 30,000 square
meter park reinterprets the spatial concepts of traditional
Korean garden design: layering,
horizontality, blurring the relationship between the interior and the exterior – with no single
feature dominating the perspective. This approach is further informed by historic
local painting traditions that depict grand visions of the ever-changing
aspects of nature.
DDP encourages many
contributions and innovations to feed into each other; engaging the community
and allowing talents and ideas to flourish. In combination with the city’s exciting public
cultural programs, DDP is an investment in the education and inspiration of
future generations.
DDP opens to the public on 21 March 2014
by hosting Seoul Fashion Week. DDP will also host five separate design and
art exhibitions featuring works by modern designers as well as the prized collection
of traditional Korean art of the Kansong Art Museum.
SITE STRATEGY
SITE ZONING
ELEVATION N
SECTION GHJ
ELEVATION E
FAÇADE LIGHTING
SYSTEM
FORM 1
FORM 2
FORM 3
FORM 4
SPACE FRAME
MODELLING
SPACE FRAME
MODELLING
ZAHA HADID
Zaha Hadid, founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded the
Pritzker Architecture Prize ( considered to be the Nobel Prize of architecture)
in 2004 and is internationally known for both her theoretical and academic
work. Each of her dynamic and innovative projects builds on over thirty years
of revolutionary exploration and research in the interrelated fields of
urbanism, architecture and design. Hadid’ s interest lies in the rigorous
interface between architecture, landscape and geology as her practice integrates
natural topography and human – made systems , leading to experimentation with
cutting – edge Technologies. Such a process often results in unexpected and
dynamic architectural forms.
EDUCATION
Hadid studied architecture at he Architectural Association from
1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977.
TEACHING
She became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture,
taught at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and
later led her own studio at the AA until 1987. Since then she has held the
Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harward University; The
Sullivan Chair at the University Illinois, School of Architecture, Chicago;
guest professorsships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg; The
Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and the Masters Studio at Columbia
University, Newyork. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture
and Commander of the British Empire, 2002. She is currently Professor at the
University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and was the Eero saarinen
Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut.
AWARDS
Zaha Hadid’ s work of the past 30 years was the subject of
critically – acclaimed retrospective exhibitions at New York’ s Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum in 2006, London Design museum in 2007 and the Palazzo della
Ragione, Padua, Italy in 2009. Her recently completed projects include the
MAXXI Museum in Rome; which won the Stirling award in 2010. Hadid’ s
outstanding contribution to the Stirling award in 2010. Hadid’ s outstanding
contribution to the architectural profession continues to be acknowledged by
the most world’ s most respected institutions. She received the prestigious ‘
Praemium Imperiale ’ from the Japan Art Association in 2009, and in 2010, the
Stirling Prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects. Other recent
awards include UNESCO naming Hadid as an ‘ Artist for Peace ‘ at a
ceremony in their Paris headquarters last year. Also in 2010, the Republic of
France named Hadid as ‘ Commandeur de l’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ in
recognition of her services to architecture, and TIME magazine included her in
their 2010 list of the ‘ 100 most Influential People in the World ‘. This years
‘ Time 100 ‘ is divided into four categories: Leaders, Thinkers, Artist and
Hereos – with Hadid ranking top of the Thinkers category.
ZHA PROJECTS:
Zaha has played a pivotal role in a great many Zaha Hadid
Architects projects over the past 30 years. The Maxxi National Museum of 21 st
Century Arts in Rome, Italy; the BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany and
the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany are excellent demonstrations of
Hadid’ s quest for complex, fluid space. Previous seminal buildings such as the
Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinati, USA, have also been hailed
as architecture that transforms our vision of the future with new spatial
concepts and bold, visionary forms.
Currently Hadid is working on a multitude of projects worldwide
including: The London Aquatics Centre fort he 2012 Olympic Games; High – Speed
Train Stations in Naples and Durango; The CMA CGM Headquarters tower in
Marseille; The Fiera di Milano masterplan and tower as well as major master
planning projects in Beijing, Bilboa, Istanbul and Singapore. In the Middle
East, Hadid’ s portfolio includes national cultural and research centres in
Jordan, Morocco, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia, as well as
the new Central Bank of Iraq.
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