‘HYADES’. Public art platform for the city of Suncheon
Global Competition | Cultural Center Design
Thessaloniki | 2016
TTDZ ARCHITECTS
Software: Rhino3D | Grasshopper | Keyshot | Photoshop | Autocad2D
Hyades is a constellation of experiences, physical, material, sensorial and mental. The value of Hyades incorporates knowledge of the urban setting of Suncheon, surrounding natural ecologies, introspective human exploration, local folk expression and cosmic investigation. The experience in Hyades requires navigating and constant interacting with physical space, cultural environment, self-expression and intuition. It requires a public, common ground and the dynamics of personal itineraries. Art is vitally placed inside as the mediator between earth and sky, ground and stars, body and soul. In Greek mythology, the Hyades were the daughters of Atlas and half-sisters to the Pleiades. After the death of their brother, Hyas, the weeping sisters were transformed into a cluster of stars that was afterwards associated with rain. (source: Wikipedia)
The project is articulated in six basic experiences:
-City: Hyades is a constellation of twelve buildings. Size, heights, scale and arrangement are in analogy to the old city of Suncheon.
-Nature: Natural elements are articulated between built and open space. Three distinct natural carpets are the sources of green elements.
-Walk: A prominent, floating route from the entrance to the transcendental place of the new yeonja-ru, through the built volumes of the city, smoothly rising from the city surface moving upwards.
-Forest: A full constellation of vertical structural elements offer a dual physical reference to both a natural forest and the folk element of ‘sodtae’, the local, wooden, bird ornamented totems.
-Dome: Art platform is covered by a square shaped canopy, of cosmic origin, the dome, protecting and connecting the whole area to weather elements, sunlight, rainwater and wind.
-New Yeonja-ru: The iconic end of the floating walk, where promenade meets a hovering platform. Earth, nature and sky, art and divinity are subtly interpreted.
The project ‘Hyades’ has been shortlisted as runner-up and selected for publication in the International Ideas Competition for the best proposal for the ‘Suncheon Art Platform’ in the city of Suncheon, South Korea. The competition was conducted with the endorsement from the UIA - International Union of Architects.
