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AmorePacific Headquarters, Seoul

when

2018

where

Seul, Corea del Sud

architecture

David Chipperfield Architects

interior design

David Chipperfield Architects

products

DCA

The new headquarters of Amore Pacific, Korea’s largest cosmetics company, is located in the Yongsan district of Seoul. The site, which the company has occupied since 1956, is adjacent to an ex-US military zone which is now being transformed into a large public park, Yongsan Park.

Designed entirely by David Chipperfield Architects, the new building echoes the aspirations of this modern organization by mediating between local and global, private and public, collective and individual, formal and informal, thus creating a dynamic identity in dialogue with the ever-changing urban surroundings.

The building presents itself in the cityscape as an enormous cube. Laid out on 30 floors for a total of 216,000 square meters, it hosts, in addition to offices, a variety of public spaces, including an auditorium, a museum (the Amore Pacific Museum of Art), a library, spaces for children, and cafés and restaurants.

A spacious interior courtyard and three large voids in the facades, each with a hanging garden, break up the uniformity of the cube, increase the permeability of the building in relation to the surrounding city, and improve the flow of air and light into the interiors.

UniFor has developed a new product for this important new building in collaboration with David Chipperfield Architects. It is the DCA Partition System, a modular, double-height partition system, created especially for Amore Pacific and subsequently added to UniFor’s collection of series products, was designed to separate meeting rooms, executive offices, work areas, and related services in an elegant and functional manner, as well as to delimit specific functions in the public areas.

Amore Pacific project received the AIA UK Award and the Korean Architecture Award in 2019.

Products: DCA Partition System

DCA Partition System is a full-height modular partition system for work environments characterized by high levels of acoustic comfort. It was conceived for dividing and organizing differentiated work zones in an efficient and rational manner by creating flexible, protected, and reserved spaces: meeting rooms, executive offices, task areas, coworking spaces, and shared service areas. DCA Partition System is composed of the following components: Frames in painted or anodized aluminum profiles (available with or without vertical elements, depending on the height of the partition); Glazing panels in extra-clear structural safety glass with insulating cavity; Insulated infill panels with finishes in a variety of materials; Swing doors with the same characteristics.

The profiles along the base and the top of the partition are designed to remain exposed or to be concealed within the raised flooring and the false ceiling, in this way permitting the partitions to be integrated perfectly with the architecture of the host building.