Seoul Desk and Table by Zaha Hadid Architects
One of the biggest headline during the Seoul Design Olympiad 2008 was definetely the Total Fluidity Exhibition of Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher.
Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher fluidity implies ease of orientation, and movement in large, complex environments. Moment of beauty is the moment when the complex coherence of the designed environment resonates with the perceptive capacity of our minds.
At the Seoul Design Olympiad 2008, the Seoul Desk and Seoul Table explore that moment and transition between the horizontal to the vertical by blending their structural elements into one streamlined formation.
The combination of carbon fibre technology with a morphology of organic complexity resulting a super-thin, super-light, and super-robust Seoul table and desk.
The original idea for this product is a generative principle of developing the legs from the table surface through a cut and fold technique.
The technique leaves a hole in the table top surface which reveals the generative move and allows the eye to trace the legs’ trajectory, which are involuting from within the inner depth of the table surface, and projecting the table edge as a tapering cantilever.
The two objects are like two individuals born of the same geno-type – each adapted to its specific purpose. Their underlying body-plan is the same: If we take the Seoul table as the first instantiation of the underlying geno-type, we can explain the Seoul desk as an adaptive mutation.
DIMENSIONS
Length 430cm Depth 100cm Height 72cm / Length 420cm Depth 87cm Height 157cm
MATERIAL
Carbon Fibre
CLIENT
NY Projects, Inc., New York, USA
Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Seoul Design Olympiad
Jamsil Sports Complex, Seoul, Korea
October 10 – 30, 2008
Source and images copyright: zaha-patrik.co.kr, Zaha Hadid Architects, NY Projects
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March 30th, 2009 at 6:34 am
very impressive works