Curtain of Cloud Pavilion

Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
© Seohu Ahn

Curtain of Cloud Pavilion

PRACTICE

ARCHITECTS
Practice

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Seohu Ahn

FURNITURE
Studio Jinyeong Yeon

LANDSCAPE DESGIN
Botanical Studio Sam

PHOTOGRAPHS
Seohu Ahn

AREA
200 M²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
South Korea

CATEGORY
Pavilion, Public Architecture

Due to its geographic characteristics as the vicinity of the airport, Magok District is subjected to height restrictions.

Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
© Seohu Ahn
Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
© Seohu Ahn
Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
© Seohu Ahn

As a by-product, sky, and clouds can be seen anywhere. These wide skies and clouds were the most primitive subjects of artistic sense during our childhood, taking us back and forth between reality and surreal states.

While looking at this cloud, Charles Baudelaire called it an ‘intriguing structure made of intangible substance, as a moving architectural piece that God built with water vapor’, and loved the mysterious cloud that one can never touch.

Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
© Seohu Ahn
Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
© Seohu Ahn
Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
© Seohu Ahn

Like the cloud that Baudelaire was fond of, the cloud in <Curtain of Cloud> metaphorically expresses an architecture with structures and skins. The pavilion of silver curtain placed in front of the quiet Magok Station gently sways like a cloud, becoming a medium that excites people’s curiosities.

The work, which used the sense of wide sky and clouds in Magok District as a metaphor, serves as a symbolic emblem that leads us to a world of imagination.

Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
© Seohu Ahn
Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
© Seohu Ahn


Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
© Seohu Ahn
Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
© Seohu Ahn
Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
© Seohu Ahn


Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
Site Plan
Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
Plan


Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
Axonometry
Curtain of Cloud Pavilion
Elevation