Galleria Gwanggyo, a textured mosaic stone façade that evokes nature

Designed by OMA, Galleria Gwanggyo opened in March 2020. Established within the Nineteen Seventies, Galleria is one in all Korea’s main shopping center chains. The Gwanggyo retailer is the corporate’s sixth retailer within the nation. Located between excessive skyscrapers and residences in Gwanggyo, a partially newly developed and younger metropolis in South Korea, the constructing good points character as the point of interest of town’s public life with its hanging structure.

The location of the Galleria Gwanggyo dictated a massive a part of the design choices made. The mission space is situated at a level the place inexperienced and grey meet, between Suwon Gwanggyo Lake Park and the buildings that make up the city cloth.

The textured pure mosaic cladding most well-liked by OMA on the façade of the shop is the results of the constructing’s need to resemble this park. The facade, which is fashioned by the mix of triangular stones in beige, brown, and earth tones, additionally resembles an earthen part. The mosaic mass rising from the bottom like a sculptural monument makes the constructing a visible icon of town.

The undisputed most hanging level of the constructing is the general public route ‘created by digging the stone’. This route, which connects the bottom flooring to the roof backyard of the shop, is an interplay community the place business and cultural actions additionally happen. With the presence of this street, OMA has introduced an modern aspect to the normal procuring heart typology.

Visitors, who use this public street that goes up 10 flooring of the Galleria Gwanggyo by winding for 540 meters, have the chance to come across not solely procuring alternatives but additionally many alternative actions within the retailer.

There is a meals and beverage market within the basement of the constructing, which has a whole of 10 flooring, whereas there are bars and eating places on the eighth flooring. There are multi-screen film theaters on the ninth and tenth flooring, and an space known as the lodge and academy on the eleventh flooring. Along the eight flooring reserved for procuring, there are stairs and elevators that present circulation to the constructing, in addition to the route that goes round all flooring.

Project Info

Architects: OMA
Area: 13.7213 sqm
Year: 2020
Manufacturers: Kuraray
Contractor: Hanwha Engineering&Construction corp.
Partner In Charge: Chris van Duijn
Associate: Ravi Kamisetti
Project Leader: Patrizia Zobernig
Project Team (Concept Phase): Mark Bavoso, Alan Lau, James Lee, Slobodan Radoman, Tianyu Su, John Thurtle
Schematic Design: Mark Bavoso, James Lee, John Thurtle
Design Development: Ikki Kondo, James Lee, Daan Ooievaar, Slobodan Radoman, John Thurtle
Interior Design: Nils Axen, Simon Bastien, Tommaso Bernabo, Minjung Cho, Felicia Gambino, Nicola Ho, Meng Huang, Zhenke Jin, Richard Leung, Ioana Pricop, Junsik Oh, Calvin Yue
Executive Architect: GANSAM Architects & Partners
Facade Consultant: VS-A
Model Makers: Made by Mistake, RJ Models, Edelsmid Emile Estourgie, Yasuhito Hirose
Model Photographer: Frans Parthesius
Curtain Wall Consultant: WITHWORKS
Photographs: Hong Sung Jun, courtesy of OMA