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Piknic 2020 Cultural Centre
Description
Renovation of A multi-cultural space. We renovated Goshiwon(share house) which was built with red bricks in the 1990s and located at the foot of Seoul Namsan Mountain. The place could remain as just the old past, but we upcycled the place into a complex cultural place coexisting with a cinema room, café, restaurant, and design shops. Architecture put efforts into making a cultural space that can be absorbed with the recent and the futural possibilities as he recorded the time inheritance of the existing building.
Location
Jung-Gu, South Korea
Year
2020
Status
Completed
Client
Indiesalon
Service
Architectural
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A partially buried first floor, a second floor going up the outer stairs, a third floor facing the retaining wall, a fourth floor meeting the ground level of the next land, and a rooftop with an open view. Each floor not only maintained the identity of a building in harmony but also gathered the facilities in the core (step room) to perform the basic functions of the building well.
Inside the Piknic, it consists of a Hoehyeon restaurant on the first floor, a cafe on the second floor, a picnic sub-art space on the third floor, an editing shop on the fourth floor, and a rooftop on the fifth floor. The passage of this building was connected to only one stairway entrance, and the accessibility to each floor was a challenge. The first-floor restaurant, which consists of large windows at the entrance, welcomes people with its interior floor extended to the outside. This increased the accessibility of the entrance through a narrow alley. In addition, the entrance of the main stairwell on the first floor was expanded visually, and the entrance of the outer stairwell connected to the second floor was created to enhance the accessibility of the two-story space other than the stairwell of the building.
