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Concrete, Realistic, Persuasive: Mega Floor | stpmj

stpmj

written by
Lee Seungteak, Lim Mijung
photographed by
Bae Jihun (unless otherwise indicated)
materials provided by
stpmj
edited by
Bang Yukyung
background

SPACE December 2024 (No. 685) 

 

 

 

Mega Floor (Seoul AI Hub) is a proposal for a new prototype of a shared office. Typically, if an office/rental space is arranged with four sides facing outwards with a centred core, the shared and public space is located in a small area in the centre of the space and so is separated from the surrounding environment. Area, size and environmental performance can be improved by considering cooperative sharing and synergy with various companies following the framework of the AI-driven Fourth Industrial Revolution. Our proposal was inspired by American city planning. Savannah, Georgia takes the form of an absorbent pocket park that provides daily breaks to residents in close proximity by placing several small parks nearby. Meanwhile, New York¡¯s Manhattan takes a different approach. Central Park in Manhattan is a large urban park that is appreciated by the entire citizenry and also integrated with the pedes...

 
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Architect

stpmj (Lee Seungteak, Lim Mijung)

Design team

Kim Jeongho, Jang Ikjun, Kim Minyoung, Kim Seul,

Location

Yangjae-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Korea

Programme

education and research facility

Site area

5,098§³

Building area

1,901§³

Gross floor area

11,118§³

Building scope

B1, 7F

Parking

59

Height

31m

Building to land ratio

37.29%

Floor area ratio

163.25%

Structure

RC

Exterior finishing

exposed concrete

Interior finishing

exposed concrete, hot rolled steel plate, metal m

Structural engineer

Sae Chang Strctural Design

Mechanical and electrical engineer

Hana Consulting Engineers

Construction

Daelasoo

Design period

Feb. 2020 – Mar. 2021

Construction period

May 2021 – Feb. 2024

Client

Seoul Metropolitan Government

Landscape architect

HEA

Lighting design

STUDIO FORMGIVER (Park Jeeyoun)


stpmj
stpmj is an award-winning design practice based in New York and Seoul. The office was founded by Lee Seungteak and Lim Mijung with the agenda, ¡®provocative realism¡¯. It is a series of synergetic explorations that occur on the boundary between the ideal and the real. It is based on simplicity of form and detail, clarity of structure, excellence in environmental function, use of new materials, and rational management of budget. To these they add ideas generated from curiosity in everyday life, as they pursue a methodology for dramatically exploiting the limitations of reality. stpmj has received numerous awards and prizes, including Seoul Architecture Special Prize (2021), AIA New York Design Awards (2020, 2019, 2017), Korean Architecture Awards (2019), Design Vanguard Architectural Record (2017), Korean Young Architect Award (2016), the Kim Swoo Geun Preview Award (2016), among others.

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