{"id":5518,"date":"2017-06-28T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T09:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cocoon.eu\/?p=5518\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T10:09:22","slug":"a-morphing-building-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cocoon.eu\/en\/2017\/06\/28\/a-morphing-building-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A morphing building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elastic and tight, flexible and smooth, weatherproof and strong: Cocoon met all the requirements that Dutch renowned architect Architect Koolhaas was looking for while making a \u201cskin\u201d around his work. Prada Transformer was the stunning result. It decorated the city of Seoul in Korea for nine months.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Always changing<\/h2>\n<p>Prada Transformer was a temporary pavilion for events in Korea. You can imagine the building as a pyramid with four different surfaces: a circle, a cross, a hexagon and a rectangle. The surfaces could be changed through the use of three cranes. If the surface was a circle, there was an exhibition of clothes and bags. If the pyramid was on the rectangle, you could enjoy a film festival, the hexagon was designed for special events and the cross was for the Prada modern art foundation.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Stunning contrast<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>By placing the building on a new surface regularly, not only the use, but the complete street scene changed dramatically. In that perspective, the square where the Prada Transformer stood was quite a contrast to the surroundings. In the background there was an ancient Korean palace of which the application and appearance never changed in all those years.<\/p>\n<h2>Flexible and tight<\/h2>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"\/en\/products\/membrane\/\">Cocoon Mebrane<\/a><\/strong> system that we used was an elastic, weatherproof plastic system. It seemed like the object was being sealed, resulting in a beautiful side effect. Due to the movement of wind, the shape of the cocoon was always changing. When there was absolutely no wind, the \u201cskin\u201d completely encircled the steel frame.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this unique building here:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/oma.eu\/projects\/prada-transformer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/oma.eu\/projects\/prada-transformer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elastic and tight, flexible and smooth, weatherproof and strong: Cocoon met all the requirements that Dutch renowned architect Architect Koolhaas was looking for while making a \u201cskin\u201d around his work. Prada Transformer was the stunning result. It decorated the city of Seoul in Korea for nine months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8332,"featured_media":2986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en","category-membrane"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cocoon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cocoon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cocoon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cocoon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cocoon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cocoon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13858,"href":"https:\/\/www.cocoon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions\/13858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cocoon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cocoon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cocoon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cocoon.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}