Royal College of Art graduate Quickly-min Hong has made a theme park exactly where, instead of rides, the sights consist of options to get caught up in a whirlpool or evacuate a burning creating.
The Danger Theme Park – unveiled this week at the opening of the London school’s end of year show – is an architectural proposal meant to boost the public’s appreciation of risk-taking jobs like firefighting.
Notion overview
Soon-min Hong believes that people are no longer ready to take every day risks that may well prepare them for dangerous scenarios, which has led to emergency services being taken for granted.
In response, he has a created an architectural construction the place members of the public can knowledge hazardous scenarios – from standing on the edge of a cliff to getting concerned in a train crash.
Level 4: risk at sea
“We reside in an age obsessed with personal safety,” explained Hong. “This generates a ‘risk deficit’ in society, forcing other people to get on that danger on behalf of the public. Normally, these are members of the emergency providers, notably the fire providers who frequently location their lives in jeopardy to serve the public interest.”
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“My question is how can an architectural proposal increase the public’s appreciation for threat-taking and advertise it as a worth?” he stated.
Level 1: leap from the large level
The theme park is proposed for Daegu, South Korea – the city the place, in 2003, an arson attack on the underground rail claimed the lives of 120 civilians. According to Hong, the city’s firefighters are undervalued, badly paid and poorly equipped.
His substantial-rise structure would be located in the centre of the city and help members of the public prepare themselves for various sorts of accidents.
Degree three: constructing fire knowledge
“Standard journey playgrounds encourage young children to take dangers in play, because it is beneficial for the child’s development, but as we increase older, this worth is dismissed via education,” he stated.
“I consider, by means of taking a threat in relation to the duties of firefighters, the public can realise how tough their duties are, and how worthwhile their efforts and sacrifices are,” he added.
Resembling an amalgamation of distinct sorts of structures, the theme park would be constructed on prime of an current fire station and police station. There would be 9 principal ranges, all assigned to a various variety of chance.
Level 5: large-rise escape – lick for greater image
On the 1st floor up, visitors would be invited to leap off a roof, even though the third and sixth floors would supply various experiences of fire. The seventh floor would recreate a monorail crash, and the eighth floor simulate the knowledge of a mountain rescue.
Hong has also developed a brochure supplying specifics of the activities on each of the floors.
Brochure front
The venture references existing education centres currently constructed around South Korea, acknowledged as Safety Knowledge Centres. But as opposed to these, which are located out of town, Hong’s city-centre proposal focuses on chance rather than security.
“I visited the Daegu Safety Theme Park and knowledgeable the two-hour course,” Hong told Dezeen. “My design and style has a totally various approach. I feel folks would be more interested in a risk theme park than a security knowledge centre.”
Brochure back
The building’s skeletal structure is made to make the activities as visible as possible to the city’s residents. This would also make it easier to replace sections that have been burnt or destroyed.
“Some of constructing can be destroyed in a fire as a simulation, and then rebuilt for the next experiment or simulation,” additional the designer.
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Hong produced the design as his last project from the RCA’s Architecture Programme, which is led by dRMM architect Alex de Rijke. He was component of the ADS3: Architecture and Activism unit, which addresses techniques that architects can intervene in politics.
Other tasks from Show RCA 2015 incorporate a staircase that can be strapped about a tree and a glove for sculpting challenging supplies.
Axonometric drawing Dezeen
