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FIVE ELEMENTS PLAZAS
to aid orientation as well as to tie current material culture to more ancient asian notions of nature, five plazas symbolizing the essential forces of fire, water, wood, steel, and earth are sited
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[ place cursor over each plaza to view perpective at left ]
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Asian Cultural Complex
Gwangju, Korea | 2005
[honorable mention, international competition]
The act of encircling has both literal and metaphorical meanings: In an urban environment like Gwangju, encircling implies both the demarcation of a special precinct within the city's existing fabric as well as the creation of a new public common ground. Providing a porous, non-hierarchical edge to the urban surrounds, our encircling form expands the democratic territory of the existing Gwangju Fountain into a cultural complex and park on an urban scale. Through the use of a new socio-structural concept in the continuous deflected arch, continuities and reciprocal relationships between the diverse cultural programs within the building are enabled.
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