WALL SYSTEM GUIDES THE WAY

摘要

When New York architect David Yum first set foot in the high-rise Leema Building lobby in Seoul, South Korea, he felt out of place. "There was no center to the place. There wasn't a sense of where you would arrive at the elevator," said Yum. "It was almost like walking into an airport terminal—this huge, rectangular box." The architect, hired to renovate the 5,000-sf lobby by Leema Industrial Co., came up with an elliptical glass wall system that would not only cut the lobby in half, but allow reflection and lighting to guide visitors to the central elevator core. "It's such a deep, long lobby that you feel lost at either end," said Yum. "So, the arc cuts it up a bit and brings the reflections of the street from the long ends of the lobby. Then the ellipse of the wall gives a path from either entrance to the center of the room."