C3 436 – Seung H-Sang

Description

C3 436 explores architecture shaped by place, purpose, and poetic depth. New Projects chapter features Leopold Banchini Architects who craft an off-grid house inspired by ancestral wisdom in the Moroccan desert, while a modernist library by Jakob + MacFarlane reimagines the Tree of Knowledge. Seung H-Sang’s meditative designs reflect an architecture of boundaries and the afterlife, portrayed here in the Order of St. Benedict Waegwan Abbey. K-Projects illustrates layered stories: Seoul’s urban transformation, subtle civic centers, and cultural roots nurtured in agricultural settings. Featuring Terminal 7 Architects, 818 architects, Chak Chak Studio and Young-pil Kim + YuMi Hyun. Across interviews and essays, architects and critics reflect on building with memory, identity, and imagination in a rapidly shifting world.
CONTENTS

New Projects

• Off-grid house embodies desert wisdom – Dar El Farina _ Leopold Banchini Architects – Interview _ Leopold Banchini + Herbert Wright
• Tree of knowledge blossoms in modernist library – Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault Library _ Jakob + MacFarlane – Interview _ Dominique Jakob and Brendan MacFarlane + Michèle Woodger

SEUNG H-SANG

• Sensuous Plan, Thinking Boundaries_Hyungmin Pai – Order of St. Benedict Waegwan Abbey _ IROJE Architects & Planners
• Peace be with you _ Seung, H-Sang – Medongaule Seongok Seowon Academy _ IROJE Architects & Planners
• A modern phrontistery beyond the grid _ Seung, H-Sang
• Notes on the 21st Century’s Seung H-Sang; Architecture of Death and Spirituality_Mannyoung Chung

K-Projects

• Built low in the layers of time – Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture _ Terminal 7 Architects – Seoul’s urbanist stage at a crossroads _Dongwoo Yim
• A subtle public space amidst the urban hustle – Geumchon Oulim Center _ 818 architects – The shadow of delicate balance _ Kiok Lee
• Rooting culture in agriculture – Root Square _ Chak Chak Studio – Dwelling and the city from a current perspective _ Young-cheol Kim
• Three adventure stories, interwoven yet apart – Moheomdam_ Studio 2LOOK – Interview _ Young-pil Kim + YuMi Hyun