asymptote architecture - contemporary process in archiecture

1. ASYMPTOTE ARCHITECTURE beukenhof auditorium and crematorium
Keelung Gateway Port Terminal
Strata
Tower
Zil Tower
Yas Viceroy Hotel Abu

2. • Founded in 1989 by Hani Rashid and Lise Anne
Couture, New York city based Asymptote
Architecture is a leading international architecture
practice
• Projects that include building designs, master
planning projects, art installations, virtual reality
environments as well as interiors and industrial
design.
• Asymptote's approach to utilizing digital tools and
technologies, contemporary theory, innovative
building practices and advancements in
engineering solutions and environmental
sustainability have afforded the practice a broad
and powerful perspective on all aspects related to
architectural building design and city planning.
• Asymptote Architecture has received numerous
prestigious awards including the
• AIA NY chapter award,
• Middle Eastern Architecture Awards
• Le Grand Prix de l’Architecture in Paris,
• 2004 Frederic Keisler Prize in recognition of their
exceptional contributions to the progress and merging of
art and architecture, etc.
Firm Profile

3. The ARC- River Culture Multimedia Museum
"We were inspired to make a statement about the power and beauty of the
landscape, the light and water, the mountains, the stones,"

5. • Completed: June 2012
• Size: 3,200 m2
• Location: Daegu, South Korea
• Design: Hani Rashid, Lise Anne Couture
• Project Directors: Josh
Dannenberg, John Guida
• Design Team: Brian Deluna, Duho Choi,
Allison Austin, Rebecca Caillouet,
Gabriel Huerta, John Hsu, Susan
Kim, Ryan Macyauski, Yun Shi, Penghan
Wu, Hong Min Kim
• Client: Kwater Korea
• Local Architect: EGA Seoul
• Structural Engineer: Knippers Helbig
Stuttgard

6. • The architecture of the River
Culture Pavilion ( ARC ) is an
powerful formal statement that
combines nature, technology and
space.
• The bold curved form of the ARC
is perched on a peninsula that juts
into the river and surrounded by
an awe inspiring natural
environment.
• The building is a strong focal point
set against a stunning panoramic
landscape.
• This atmospheric quality of the
building enclosure is heightened
by light reflections from shallow
pool of water that surrounds the
base.

8. • The architecture is comprised of a vessel
shaped form that is clad in silver fritted
ETFE pillows that through a play of
transparency and geometry creates an
ephemeral effect.
• While the visible portion of the building
sits atop an artificially formed
landscape, the exhibition gallery
concealed below is the space through
which the visitors enter.
• While the exterior of the ETFE clad
structure captures the quality of the
changing light with the open sky and
river landscape as backdrop, the
darkened and hermetic interior of the
main structure houses an immersive
multimedia environment illuminated
only by projections of the abstracted
and re-conceptualized qualities of the
surrounding site.

9. • The architecture enables the visitor's
experience to be an alternating play between
a 'real' experience of the water, sky and
landscape that surrounds the building, and a
virtual experience as presented through
multimedia.
• This experience culminates on the roof
where a large reflecting pond reflects the sky
and an observation terrace enables the
visitor to overlook the site and its natural
surroundings from yet another perspective.

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11. • Date: 2012
• Size: 135,000 sqm
• Location: Yongsan District, Seoul, South Korea
• Design: Hani Rashid, Lise Anne Couture
• Project Director: John Guida
• Design Team: Liam Lowry, Hong Min Kim,
DuHo Choi, Danny Abalos, Brian Deluna,
Rebecca Caillouet, Oliver Dibrova, Rob Eleazer,
Tara Hagan, John Hsu, Yu Ping Hsieh, Mu-Jung
Kang, Yu Nong Khew, Serra Kiziltan, Makiko
Nukaga, Bika Rebek, Matthew Slattery,
Valentina Soana, Kane Yanagawa, Margarita
Yong, Michael Young
• Client: DreamHub Seoul Korea
• Local Architect: Siaplan Seoul Korea
• Structural Engineer: Arup New York

12. • The towers are designed through a strategy of stacking
cylindrical volumes then utilizing rotation of each
volume according to views, privacy and
environmental aspects.
• With a collection of roof gardens, shared amenities
and internal circulation around light filled open atrium
spaces, the vertically distributed massing elements
create unique 6 to 8 storey residential communities
on the skyline.
• The towers consist of eight distinct residential
components each rotated and positioned within a
carefully choreographed massing arrangement,
calibrating the orientation and views of each
residential volume and taking full advantage of the
towers’ position adjacent to the Yongsan Park
overlooking the Han River in the distance.
• The stacked clusters are complemented by roof
gardens, shared amenities and internal circulation
around light filled open atrium spaces.
• This formal approach provides a welcome
counterpoint to the conventionally extruded massing
that convention dictates.

13. • Through careful formal manipulation and the
breaking down of the scale and massing of these
two towers, an alternative architectural and
urbanity approach is achieved.
• The Velo Towers consist of three major components
that make up the architectural ensemble.
• At the base a plinth connects the towers and provides
space for park side condominiums and a covered drop off
area beneath.
• The second feature is the stacked volumes that each
provides gardens, open-air stacks through the cores and a
sense of discrete communities within the larger complex.
• Thirdly, a sky bridge not only structurally connects the two
towers’ cores, but also provides public amenities in the sky
overlooking Seoul.
• The Velo Towers design and construction strategy
exploits the latest advances in design, materials and
digital fabrication from other fields like automotive,
aerospace and marine industries. By merging these
the Velo Towers offer a glimpse into the future of
building with the aid of technological
advancements.

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N.AHAMED THAMIM