Experimental Canvas: Gallery Yeh

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Shaping a gallery space into a vertical piazza encased in a concrete skin is Unsandong Architects Cooperation, an architectural firm based in South Korea.

Transforming the conventional stereotypes for a gallery façade, the Unsandong Architects Cooperation breaks new grounds in the design for Gallery Yeh, South Korea. Designed as an ‘artwork’, the façade of the building is a continual concrete canvas that inspires the spatial ambience.

The verticality explores manifestation of a form beyond 2D. The spatial skin was a sequential development sourced out of the new code between the floor plan and the 3D medium of the outer shell. The exterior concrete façade progressed beyond being a singular skin to layered configuration, adhering to multiple benefits. The concrete panels span the entire building façade with no visible openings on the frontage. It speaks more with the urban fabric than as an element of design. It flows as a continuity of the city skyline, woven as a part of it. Dubbed as the ‘skinscape’, the façade is the focal point around which the volumetric dialogue is delineated as ‘skin plus structure’, ‘skin plus program,’ skin plus place’ and so on. This combinatory patterns culminate into a new kind of architectural language leading to different spatial conceptions. The deformation sculpts into an undulating uniformity with breaks and niches recessed within it. The abstract lightness and gaps in the façade offers a sneak preview of various possibilities transcending behind it. The chosen materials of concrete etc. harmonise the blend of the contextual axis with the contrasting style of the design. The angular lines introduced to the rigidity of the triangles extend visually to connect to the architectural expressions of the neighbourhood.

The area of 567.5sqm is articulated over nine storeys i.e. two storeys below ground and seven storeys reaching to the skies. Aligning similar new generation thinking concepts, the interiors intertwine to elevate the requirement of functions and exterior materialistic usage. Exposed concrete’s unique texture has been used to render the interiors as well. The exhibits are arranged in a simplistic format along the well-lit spaces, in composition with the raw grey of the walls.

A singular blank canvas of concrete plays with a number of intrinsically linked elements to enlarge a broader picture of experience, as a focus and epicentre around which the design of Gallery Yeh has evolved.