Seoul, Republic of Korea
Jointly designed by Dutch pattern designer Karel Martens and Korean architect Choi Jang-won of Hyundai Livart Artlab for Hyundai Engineering and Construction, Cloud Walk is an open-air sculpture created as a resting place for residents.
Its conceptual design has been awarded a prestigious 2021 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The Cloud Walk consists of a cloud-shaped pavilion designed by the collaboration of art and architecture which embodies clouds floating in the center of the mirror pond that subtly reflects the surrounding environment, is a shelter, and also a sculpture itself.
To get functioned as an outdoor shelter with a light and open design as a cloud, the structure is made of thin and strong stainless steel.
Under the ceiling, “Dutch Cloud,” artist Karel Martens’ iconic pattern work, which colorful icon patterns create shapes like pointillism techniques, gives an atmosphere, making it possible to meet the sky even under the roof.
The designers put the concept of collaboration through work with the times by applying pictures of the sky taken in Amsterdam studios to works set up in Seoul under the concept of “even in times where it is physically difficult to meet each other.”
Project: The Cloud Walk
Designers: Karel Martens and Choi Jang Won, Hyundai Livart Artlab
Client: Hyundai Engineering & Construction
