COMPOUND BODY _JANG YOON GYOO, SHIN CHANG HOON

01. Between Compound and Integration

  <Compound Body> is a virtual text written over the assumption that integrating the multiple layers of territorial elements invites the possibility of opening up question in producing the new outcome. The foucus here should be how to examine a system as its unstable state before it comes a complete, stabilized whole. it embodies the notion that a destabilized structure in fact could generate a series of opportunities which can lead to anher creative displacement. Soppese the accomplishment of the <Intergrated Body> as a set of classified system embracing all possibilities available through which its processes become a complete integration. This process then requires text-writing methods that can engage infinite variations existing in between compound and integration.


02. Clip City

  <seoul> reveals itself as an urban prototype that oscillates between the past and the present. The reason that I would like to discuss architecture and city through the concept of Compound Body coincides with this phenomenon. Seoul offers peculiar simultaneity of old palaces and the latest contemporary productions. The city also possesses multiple layers that inhabits different eras and times. As society acts more sensitive than ever towards various urban issues, the western cites strive to dissolve and rase the over-saturated urban density within their city planning agenda, while the Third World cities focus to continuously generate new urban models that corresponds with their economic and political transitions. Time to conceive and practice the new researches, readings, and concepts has arrived.


03. Becoming Animal

04. Reaction-Interactive Map

  Reaction Body is superimposed over the invisiible. It becomes a device to recollect or rediscover things considered invisible. However the Reaction Body is not invisible substance like an 'invisible man'. It is a regenerating framework that strips away the curtains from blocking the light, and open to resonate with city and society.


05. Skin Scape

06. Floating + Floating

  Floating is proposed here as an attitude in our attempts for new architecture. This can include number of meaning - social reflections, non-gravitational thinking, simultaneity of light architecture and heavy spiritual reaction. Once we soar up in the air, be free from physical restraint of gravity which governs the earth, we can take notice of things surrounding atmosphere as well as the social links we were unable to see. Rather than discussing the details regarding physical features, our center of focus are on those invisivle and hidden. It means that the importance lies in more fundamental questioning in cencept beyond merely proposing architectural resolutions.


07. Mythological Imagination