Live Projects (2021): Suspicious Footprints

Private, intimate stories of the city

Net of Sewoon Electronic Plaza by Bo.Daa (Melody Song, Xinyi Wang) + Yeongkeon ChoiSeoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

The “Live Projects” section is a bridge to open up the fields of architecture to a lay public. “Suspicious footprint” proposes another look at the city, a place for fiction, for unknown or unexpected combinations. Five writers were invited to compose narratives of their private experience of the city, giving shape to those intimate narratives composed by the writers, five teams of architects build physical sites that allow the audience to have a comprehensive experience with an extended range of empathy.

Suspicious Footprints by FHHH Friends + Dajuro StudioSeoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

Suspicious Footprints

The pavilion, entitled Suspicious Footprints, acts as a space to relay the information about the Live Projects exhibition. In a suspicious space wrapped with temporary fences, visitors will observe everything in a suspicious manner. Although the space serves to provide information, it does not aim to deliver them in an efficient manner. In order to absorb information, one has to linger. 

Tree of Souls by ALA-inger (Jean Taek Park, Daye Kim, Luke Rideout) + Yeonsook (Rita) LeeSeoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

Tree of Souls

Using living plants as a building material, we intend to show the flow of energy circulating between the ground and the air. In this way, the dichotomous relationship between the bottom and the top, the individual and the group is broken down. Our pavilion facilitates an experience of simultaneity that is both the bottom and the top, the individual and the group. 

Kathouse by Obra Architects (Jennifer Lee, Pablo Castro, Haeri Choi) + Semi ParkSeoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

Kathouse

The Kathouse champions a timely return of gatherings, proposing an architectural celebration of the city, people, cats and all other beasts. The Kathouse is a space of performance, a space given to the spoken word during the day and the moving image in the evenings.

One Site and Four Scenarios by Leehong Kim (Leehong Kim Architects) + Jidon JungSeoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

One Site and Four Scenarios

It is an imagination of Eulji-ro without the megastructure, erased from our vision. The four viewpoints at the staircase along the walkway each represent dierent degrees of resolution.

Net of Sewoon Electronic Plaza by Bo.Daa (Melody Song, Xinyi Wang) + Yeongkeon ChoiSeoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

Net of Sewoon Electronic Plaza

The installation is a tribute to Sewoon Plaza’s history, craftspeople, and collective resilience. The materials of electrical cable conduits, cable ties, and tape are commonly sold on the site. The traditional Korean knot "Jeongja Maedeup" was employed to interlink individual components into a durable net.

Daydream Chambers by Jaewon Suh (aoa architects) + Seolbin LeeSeoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

Daydream Chambers

Daydream Chambers, located at this intersection, is a barrier between the city and nature on the bridge connecting the Sewoon Shopping Center and the Daerim Shopping Center, lightly transforming the space under the canopy into a loosely partitioned room for the pandemic era.

Credits: Story

Find out more information including the theme of the 2021 biennale, and programs on the website of Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. 

Curator: FHHH Friends ​
Photos: ⓒMH photography

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