A PILGRIMAGE A FEW YEARS HENCE WOULD YIELD FASCINATING INSIGHTS

摘要

The intelligent open-ended architecture of Florian Beigel's Architecture Research Unit (ARU), which can accommodate changing patterns of human occupation over time, is a sophisticated antidote to today's tendency to see buildings as objects. Who would be anything less than ecstatic to be an employee in the offices of Positive People Inc. publishers — Beigel's second completed building in Paju Book City, 30km north of Seoul — with its carefully proportioned and sensitively daylit spaces (see the Building Study on pages 29-41)? The elegant simplicity and detailing of the interiors - exposed concrete walls and ceilings, timber floors and han-ji rice paper wall panels - invite human occupancy.