AmorePacific, Seoul
Commercial (Office / co-working)
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The new headquarters of AmorePacific, Korea’s largest cosmetics company, is in the Yongsan district of Seoul. The site, which the company has occupied since 1956, is adjacent to an ex-US military zone, which is now being transformed into a large public park, Yongsan Park.
Designed entirely by David Chipperfield Architects, the new building echoes the aspirations of this modern organization by mediating between local and global, private, and public, collective and individual, formal and informal, thus creating a dynamic identity in dialogue with the ever-changing urban surroundings.
The building presents itself in the cityscape as a vast cube. Laid out on 30 floors for a total of 216,000 square meters, it hosts, in addition to offices, a variety of public spaces, including an auditorium, a museum (the Amore Pacific Museum of Art), a library, spaces for children, and cafés and restaurants.
A spacious interior courtyard and three large voids in the facades, each with a hanging garden, break up the uniformity of the cube, increase the permeability of the building in relation to the surrounding city, and improve the flow of air and light into the interiors.
UniFor has developed a new product building in collaboration with David Chipperfield Architects. It is the DCA Partition System, a modular, double-height partition system, created especially for Amore Pacific and subsequently added to UniFor’s collection of series products, that was designed to separate meeting rooms, executive offices, work areas, and related services in an elegant and functional manner. The system also effectively as divides specific functions in the public areas.
Project details:
1,250 linear meters of Double glazing (6 mm + 6 mm) DCA Partition system, with 220 doors. From 3 to 4,70 m in height.
