JOONGHO CHOI STUDIO

This project is to set a community facility’s design guideline for GS Xi Apartment, one of the major apartment brands in Korea, considering only the users, not from a brand perspective.
Excluding the exterior of apartment buildings, the community facility includes; the main gate, the entrance of apartment buildings, kindergarten, senior house, community garden, and sunken which leads to the underground community center. Our goal was to find the problems of each space and to suggest solutions and design directions through user scenarios.

"Elysian Garden"

The elysian garden is a big community garden for residents, formed with a variety of elements- lots of different types of plants, flowers, pavilion, installation, canopy, outdoor furniture, and more.
The adequate density of these elements was applied, to make spaces of different levels of privacy – private space to public space.
We tried to create a natural connection between each different element and space and to avoid isolation.
The residents can temporarily escape from the city and rest under the trees and sunlight listening sound of the pond and winds.

"Kindergarten"

The kindergarten within the community facility is designed with a sense of playfulness and care for children to enjoy
commuting by applying racing track patterns on the road along with a kick scooter rack.
The interactive revolving panels on the façade excites children in the midst of stagnant buildings around.
The object on the roof stimulates children’s imagination and creativity while the graphic patterns are applied
on the top surface of the roof to consider the view of a perspective of high floor residents.

"Pergola"

The Xi-Scape Pergola offers a natural pathway and creates usage through its architecture.
Long walls supporting the roof invite the audience to walk along them, as it becomes the foundation for the benches on the other side.
Different levels of ceilings are used in the system to create subtle divisions between zones.
By composing various heights, orientations, and distances from one another, the pergola breaks up the monotony of space.
These slight shifts allow individuals to distance themselves from one another without entirely separating themselves.
The courtyard creates a subtle division within an open space and lets in natural light.
The goal is to suggest the function of residing through form, content, and composition rather than to dictate it.

The GS Xi-Scape collection is a configurable, open-ended system constructed with interconnecting steel frame.
A variety of adjustable outdoor settings are possible with a range of chairs, benches, sofas, and pergolas.
The GS Xiscape series is designed to increase the adaptability and flexibility of outdoor spaces.
A chair system, ganging tables, shelving walls, and outdoor sofa enable the creation of a number of interchangeable outdoor settings.
Xiscape enables residents to design outdoor spaces that are adaptable to change. It is simple to scale up or down outdoor settings.
Spaces can be divided or opened up as needed due to their location and use.

To encourage efficiency in the production process and to extend the product's lifespan, it employs a modular design concept.
It can be disassembled to its recyclable mono-material state to be reused or upgraded to meet the requirements of new outdoor scenarios.
The Xiscape Seating is constructed with a metal frame to which the seats and bases are attached.
Everything from a dining chair to a sofa can be built on the frame to fit a variety of outdoor settings.
The frame allows for the seats to be made of maple trees, metal or outdoor fabric.