Furniture Design of space YIEODO
Space YIEODO is a world-roving exhibition space that transcends existing boundaries and connects the world through culture and art. It is like an artistic paradise wandering around the everyday city. This furniture design project visualized the atmosphere of Space YIEODO with spatial elements and considered variable use suited to its nomadic nature. Thus, stools that can be used as chairs, coffee tables, or spatial objects were actively introduced. Also, new units that accommodate art books and souvenirs were customized. Imagining YIEODO's sea, sky, trees, grass, and flowers, colors that would bring freshness even to dark spaces were deliberately selected.
Studio SMA
All spatial and visual works done by Studio SMA are dedicated to transforming people’s ordinary lives and daily moments into more meaningful experiences.
A definition of meaningful experiences by the studio is both sensual and intellectual. In other words, the work should deliver more than immediate astonishment and wonderment to beholders. It leaves a kind of trace to deduce or speculate on the design concept and process. Arising simultaneous sensual experience and intellectual curiosity is a way of engaging the reality that contributes to people’s appreciation of the moments.
In order to initiate meaningful experiences, the studio tries to investigate the possibility of unique gestures that are appropriate to a specific location, or an idea that defamiliarizes the status quo. The possibilities are scrutinized by considering various factors- site, context, function, use, program, identity, residents, visitors, passerby, history, time, budget, schedule, etc. An idea must be delivered by form and space themselves, while the materiality and the physicality should reinforce sensual experiences of the idea. Above all, the work should be beautiful and attractive, i.e., not perfectly comprehensible. Therefore, diverse experiments are performed to incarnate the integration of form, matter, and the idea.
Works that generate meaningful experiences for people are not limited by conventional architectural or interior boundaries. Designing furniture, objects, installations, writing, video, etc., the studio encompasses diverse media to generate substantial encounters.
SeungBum Ma
SeungBum Ma is a registered architect in New York, and a founding director of Studio SMA. He received Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in NY, after received Master of Science in Architectural Engineering and Bachelor of Architecture from Seoul National University. Before founding Studio SMA, he practiced in ODA Architecture NY, SAMOO, SPACE GROUP, and HANUL. He is currently teaching as an assistant professor at School of Architecture in HongikUniversity. He was awarded as the Best Young Designer from Seoul Design Festival 2023 and elected as the SDF 2023 Young Designer Ambassador.
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