The Imprint

摘要

MVRDVs The Imprint is part of the larger Paradise City complex of entertainment and hotel attractions less than a kilometer away from South Korea's largest airport. Given the proposed program of the 2 buildings - a nightclub and indoor theme park - the design of The Imprint arises from a simple question: can we design an expressive facade that connects with its surroundings even though it has no windows? The design achieves this by projecting the facades of the surrounding buildings in the complex, which are "draped" over the simple building forms and plazas like a shadow, and "imprinted" as a relief pattern onto the facades.In order to achieve the desired "imprint" of the surrounding buildings, the facade is constructed of glass fiber reinforced concrete panels. As many of the 3,869 panels are unique, the construction required molds have to be individually produced using MVRDV,s 3D modeling files from the design phase. Once installed, these panels were painted white in order to emphasize the relief in the design.