Yeosu Oceanic Pavilion

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Yeosu Oceanic Pavilion is designed under the partnership of EMERGENT and KOKKUGIA for the 2012 Expo in Korea. The marine pavilion, Yeosu explores ocean ecosystem.

EMERGENT and KOKKUGIA have teamed up to design a floating marine Expo Pavilion, Yeosu for 2012 Expo in Korea. The designers have applied intricate computation that represents a loose, indefinite way of working that favours effects over self-justifying processes.

The Pavilion is being designed as a space that marks the ocean as a living organism. Ocean ecosystems and human culture merges with this pavilion. Active re-organization of matters and energies around and underneath the building has been added by the architect, where the species choose its environment as much as the environment chooses its species.

Yeosu has a theme of the living ocean and her coastlines. The structure is founded on a collection of soft membrane bubbles fused together with a solid monocoque shell. Specific to their materiality, the two systems are distinguished by patterns of surface articulation. Nonetheless, features are likely to migrate, hybridize and become superfluous.

Fiber-composite shell in the form of deep pleats and mega-armatures give structural stiffness, while the vaulted ETFE membranes are stabilized by fine, double-pleated ‘Air-beams‘. Micro-armatures, known as Mohawks contravene between shell and membrane, which forms structural and patterned continuity between systems.

Colour is used to visually strengthen transformations in structural behavior. However, colour gradients are neither totally indexical nor are they entirely smooth. Thus, colour usage is an active and extensive source of architectural surfeit.

Natural daylight sneaks into the interior of the building with the help of the ETFE membrane bubbles, which also offer a bit of a thermal barrier and insulation. Due to its extreme lightweight quality, the structure can be easily deconstructed after the celebration is over.

Text Compilation: Renuka Singh

Photographs : Courtesy IA&B Archives

Project:	Yeosu Oceanic Pavilion
Location:	Korea
Status:	Unbuilt
Architect:	EMERGENT
Partners:	KOKKUGIA, Roland Snooks, Pablo Kohan
Project Manager:	Tom Wiscombe
Project Team:	David Stamatis, Chris Eskew, Brent Lucy, Graham Thompson, Zeynep Aksöz