Samsung Sammoo

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SAMOO Architects & Engineers (SAMOO) is an architectural design firm headquarteredin Seoul, Republic of Korea with diversified services including architectural design, urbanplanning, interior design, engineering, and construction management services. SAMOOwas founded in 1976. Since then it has grown to be one of the largest architectural firms in South Korea with over 1,000 employees and five overseas offices worldwide. In 2011,SAMOO was ranked 14th worldwide by Building Design magazine (UK) WorldArchitecture TOP 100 Design Firms and 2nd amongarchitectural design firms active in the Pacific Rim. The firm is involved in a broad spectrum of building types including office buildings, governmentheadquarters, healthcare facilities, retail/mixed use centers, research laboratories,training centers, residential, and hightech industrial facilities.
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Founded
Seoul, South Korea, 1976
Headquarters
Jamsil Building 7-22, Sincheon-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, 138-240 Korea Apple Tower 175, Jamsilbon-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, 138-861, Korea
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New York, NY Dubai, UAE Abu Dhabi, UAE Shanghai, China Hanoi, Vietnam
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Myung-Gi Sohn
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Over 1,000 employees worldwide
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Architecture, Urban Planning, Interior Design, Sustainability, Construction Management, Engineering
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Samsung Life Insurance Dangsan-dong Building

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Seoul, Korea Office 27,991m2 17 Stories and 6 Basements 2012
Samsung Life Insurance Office Guwol-dong, Incheon

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Guwol-dong, Namdong-gu, Incheon, Korea Office 36,714m2 20 Stories and 7 Basements 2011
Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Yeongdeungpo

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Korea Office 19,355m2 12 Stories and 3 Basements 2011
Samsung HRD Changjokwan Renovation

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Located in the site of Samsung Everland, Changjokwan of Samsung Human Rejuvenation of a creative space by harmonizing the old with the new Resources Development Center is a training center consisting of two buildings: the education building and the residence building. The overall design concept was based on human interactions. The education building, which is located at the entrance to Changjokwan, was renovated to suggest the visions and values of the future, while maintaining tradition. The residence building was designed to reflect a visionary perspective towards the future. Selected works of art from various periods are found in the interior, arranged to inspire the creativity of viewers, and refresh their imaginations Yongin, Korea Training 26,896m2 3 Stories(Education Bldg.) / 6 Stories(Residence Bldg.) 2011
Samsung Regional Headquarters North America

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration The design for Samsung Regional Headquarters generates a series of sophisticated and wellarticulated spaces to enhance the work and creative atmosphere of an organization that prides itself on technical innovation and design aesthetics. The program includes private offices for vice presidents and division heads, open workstations, conference rooms of various sizes, a lab, a studio, a visitors center, and pantry spaces. The project was a complete interior renovation of five floors in an existing office building. Heirarchy between the circulation paths organized wayfinding as well as program. The east-west elevator lobby axis plays off the primary boulevard where the warm maple hardwood floor and suspended wood ceiling lead the user to the primary spaces. The wood flooring carries the outline of the secondary avenue circulation, delineating offices at the core and workstations at the periphery to maximize daylight to the users. Clear organization of the space is defined by the disciplined alignment of new architectural elements to the existing building module. All interior offices that occupy the center core of each floor are furnished with clear glass corners. Bold, contrasting visual keys help to further organize and reduce visual clutter for stream-lined vistas. Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, U.S.A. Architectural Interior Design 160,050 sq.ft. 5 Floors 2010
Samsung Raemian Eastpalace

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Yongin, Korea Apartment 587,894m2 30 Stories and 2 Basements 2010 Winner, Design Competition, 2005 / Korean Ecological Architecture & Tomoon Engineering Architects, Mooyoung Architects, Jean Michel Wilmotte
The intention of this competition winning scheme for a private development entity is to transform a former commercial district into a new urban environment for the Samsung Raemian Eastpalace. At the outset, the challenge was how to make a break from the monotonous housing that is characterized by former development typology. At the same time, it is also required to maintain adequate density that will be the basis of a sound business plan. The ultimate pursuit for this project was to make this complex distinctive and fresh from monotonous typical cookie cutter models of site planning, unit plan and building elevations. At the heart of the plan, the idea is to integrate the site into the diversified natural characteristics of the nearby mountain environment. The site is divided into five blocks; the community facility in the center supports the cultural, educational, and leisure activities of the residents. Open spaces are used to connect each block to this central facility. The design of each block is arranged to take best advantage of the special view towards natural landmarks. Careful mix of high and low rise buildings and a wide selection of units support diversified lifestyle and choice of the residents. The Samsung Raemian Eastpalace succeeds in creating a high-end complex through new site planning strategy, community amenities, and thoughtfully designed building elevations.
Samsung TFT LCD T8 LINE

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Tangjung, Korea Industrial 885,000m2 10 Stories and 2 Basements 2009
Sungkyunkwan University Samsung Library

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration To keep abreast with the rapidly changing information-oriented waves, overflowing data, and varying demands of users in the advent of the digital era, an arena for information exchange is necessary. The academic information as a center of the campus, an arena for information exchange in the era of digitalization, a place for studies of new concept, a space of multifunctional complex which makes students want to stay and utilize to the fullest, and the future-oriented cutting-edge information facilities are the key to this design. The theme named the Digital Library has been the most basic concept to apply in this design. A series of images where books unfold express the open space where a surplus of information abounds. In addition, the growth curves of the leaves of a gingko tree, which is the symbol of Sungkyunkwan University, have been modeled to be symbolized as a leaf of a gingko tree in the front. The Digital Library which has been embodied with transparent and metallic materials that go well with the modern concept is set to reorganize the context of the campus as a hub of information exchange in the heart of the campus. Once entering the indoor space of the Digital Information Center, an excess of bright lights come through a large hall and the sharply protruded conference rooms represent the vivid vibrancy of students full of dynamism and energy.
Suwon, Korea Library 23,742m2 7 Stories and 2 Basements 2009 Grand Award, Gyeonggi-do Architectural Culture Award, 2009
Samsung Cancer Center

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Seoul, Korea Hospital 105,708m2 11 Stories and 8 Basement 2008 Special Prize, Seoul Architectural Work Awards 2008 Ellerbe Becket
Specializing in the treatment of cancer, the Cancer Center is part of the Samsung Medical Center designed to support the activities related to medical education and research. In order to create a new image as cancer center, the luxurious interior space of the buildings are tailored to cancer patients, their families and the medical personnel specializing in cancer, while harmonizing with other buildings within the whole complex in its appearance and public spaces. The buildings are divided into four zones: the supportive zone, the extramural patients zone, the ward tower and the atrium. Various departments are located in each zone, in a flow plan which would minimize the circulations of the patients and the staff. For the diagnosis and treatment areas, the medical facilities are arranged according to the organs of the body in order to provide one-stop service. The spaces are structurally expanded and the facilities are grouped for flexibility as well as making room for future expansion. As the treatment of cancer generally requires a long period of time, each ward introduces the magnificent views of the surrounding nature as much as possible while concealing the nearby funeral center.
Yonsei Samsung Library

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration After winning the design competition in 2002 for the Yonsei Samsung Library for Commemorating the 120th Anniversary of Yonsei University, we redesigned it in 2005 when the program for the architecture was changed by the client. The new building is located behind and in parallel to the Central Library. A decked square is created in front of the College of Law, adapting to the flow of pedestrians within the campus. By accommodating the activities of the students, a second core of the campus is derived from the existing core. The elevation is designed by applying a module of 6.9 meters in size, modified from the 6.7-meter module of the Yonsei Samsung Library. With the openness and transparency created by the curtain wall, the verticality emphasized by the mullions and the horizontality of the trelis of the roof, the modern architecture is in harmony with the existing Library. Honed granite is used for the exterior skin to mix in with the Central Library and the College of Law, constructed in an open-joint method. The canopy of the main entrance and the TPG glass at the back transform the massiveness the stone building might produce into refined exquisiteness. The core is separated on its west, assuring spatial independence and flexibility of the library. The space is visually open by being surrounded by outer walls on three sides and by sharing the courtyard with the inner space.
Seoul, Korea Education(Library) 33,429m2 6 Stories and 3 Basement 2008
Seocho Samsung Town

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration KPF Seoul, Korea Office 390,059m2 44 Stories and 8 Basements 2008
Located in central Gangnam, where Teheranro and Gangnamdaero intersect, Seocho Project represents an image of a world-class corporation by redefining the skyline of one of Seoul's upscale districts. The massing is separated and integrated into a rectangle, employing traditional Korean structural systems to represent Korean culture while remaining sensitive to the site context in terms of building heights. While this represents the concept of the project, it creates harmony with adjacent buildings, expressing mutual relationships between internal departments and corporations, as well as global corporations. The outer walls of the tower are designed with a unique curtain wall that accentuates each horizontal and vertical element to clearly reveal the design concept. Three separate towers are arranged such that privacy is maintained and interference among the buildings is minimized. Also, the street environment and visual connection with the general vicinity was improved by reducing the mass of the podium, which allowed for the allocation of space to the exterior of the buildings. In other areas of the Seocho Project complex, the community plaza, corporate park, and electric showroom form various other open spaces.
Samsung Life Insurances Ulsan Headquarters

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration The Ulsan Headquarters Building of Samsung Life Insurance is proposed as a new model of office building with differentiated business facilities, taking into account the ground and land conditions of the Ulsan region. While most office buildings seek efficient use of land by taking the form of a box, this new building is configured by curved surfaces flowing along the curved shape of the land located in a corner of anintersection. The architecture is designed to avoid intimidating the surrounding buildings, with the core pushed to the east for both privacy and efficient office environment. The building is accessed through the main entrance on its northern facade facing the intersection, and part of the lower floors is set back to create spaces for pedestrian circulation, drawing them spontaneously into the building. A second entrance is created on its southern side, providing a drop-off area with an exaggerated canopy to protect the customers from rain when they get on and off the cars. The sides facing the intersection function as an interface, blending with the surrounding office buildings as well as differentiating from them with the colorful expressions that change every moment and from different angles. Ulsan, Korea Office 21,580m2 15 Stories and 7 Basements 2008
Samsung Engineering Center

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration HOK International Ltd. Sangil-dong, Seoul, Korea Commercial 181,819m2 16 stories and 4 basements 2007
Samsung Life Insurances Sunhwa-Dong Office

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration The Sunhwa-dong Office of Samsung Life Insurance project is part of a downtown redevelopment project. In order to maximize the space for lease while achieving managemental efficiency and economy of structure and utility systems, the building takes the simplest form of a box. This can easily result in architectural monotony and lack of individuality. It was a challenging project to create unique expressions within the redevelopment project while differentiating from the group of business facilities surrounding it. As the Sections 10 and 11 of the Sunhwa-dong redevelopment project were being designed in parallel, efforts were made to harmonize the two buildings and to interconnect the functions of their lower floors. The two buildings are designed to be perceived as a continuous architecture by the pedestrians, and an appropriate scale from the street is established. Considering the impact of this new architecture upon the context of the area, the scale, materials and colors of the whole building are moderated adapting to the flow from the upper floors to the lower parts. Seoul, Korea Office 55,946m2 20 Stories and 6 Basements 2007
Samsung Techwin Pankyo R&D Center

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Seongnam-si, Korea Research 58,600m2 6 Stories and 4 Basements 2006
Samsung NRD Semiconductor FAB

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Hwaseong-si, Korea Industrial 107,000m2 9 Stories and 1 Basement 2006
Samsung Child Care Center Hwaseong

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration As the number of double-income families increase, more and more nurseries are needed. Of course, the closer a nursery is located to a workplace, the better, and it was with this mentality that Samsung Child Care Center was designed for the employees of the Samsung Semiconductor Facility in Hwaseong. The nursery was designed under the motto of a fun place to play where mom and dad work and consists of small communities for children that differs from other large buildings near the business complex. The facility looks like a single building shaped 'L'. However, it was designed so that the interior space could be separated into two, to take into consideration the safety and behavior of the children. On the first floor are 1 & 2 year-old children and on the second floor are 3 & 4 year-old children. The playgrounds are also divided according to the children's ages. Public facilities, such as play rooms and restaurants are located in the center and connected to the backyard. The overall color and shape of the building is bright and cheerful, reflecting children's preferences. Hwaseong-si, Korea Education, Welfare 3,650m2 3 Stories 2006
Samsung A1 Semiconductor FAB

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Hwaseong-si, Korea Industrial 326,0007m2 8 Stories and 1 Basement 2005
Samsung Geoje Hotel

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration GWA(Interior) Geoje-si, Korea Hotel 11,255m2 6 Stories and 1 Basement 2005
The Samsung Geoje Hotel is designed on this premise, focusing on the local characteristics of the Geoje Island. Located in one of the best seaside resort areas, the image of the Hotel materialized as a mooring ship is inspired by the seascape linking the island with the nearby fishing ports of Jinhae, Tongyeong and Namhae, and by the fact that the client is in the shipbuilding business. The Hotel is situated in a prominent spot halfway up the hills of the Mount Garoji, with a magnificent view of the Gohyeon Bay and the shipyard, and we decided to emphasize the architectures daytime and nighttime images. Open to all tourists and general public, the customers of the Samsung Geoje Hotel are primarily the business people visiting the Geoje Shipyard. Considering this, we minimized the sizes of the inessential facilities and added the facilities for the local community and the residents of the nearby foreignersquarters. We used nature-friendly materials for the Hotel, reflecting the features of the hills in its appearance, to harmonize with the surrounding landscape. We decided to restore the original landscape as much as possible once the buildings are completed. As a frame holding the surrounding nature in it, we wanted the Hotel to cherish the landscape and assimilate with it. The elevation is designed with the motif of the image of a ship floating on the waves.
Samsung R4 DM Reserch Center

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration The vertically expanded volume of the R4 DM Research Center of Samsung Electronics can accommodate a very large sized research personnel. For efficient layout, the research facilities are divided and grouped together according to their natures. An ideal environment for research activities is produced by creating pleasant resting spaces for the users as well as furnishing with advanced facilities and security features. Combined with the appearance reflecting the urban context of the complex, the future-oriented shape and the materials symbolizing an advanced image highlight that it is the hub of worlds foremost intellectual research complex. Suwon-si, Korea Research 214,910m2 37 Stories and 5 Basements 2005
Samsung Museum of Art LEEUM

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Seoul, Korea Culture (Exhibition) 28,271m2 5 Stories and 4 Basements 2004 Grand Award, Seoul Architectural Work Award Honored, Korean Mario Botta Architetto, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, OMA
Three architectures to hold the art of the past, the present and the future are arranged organically in the complex of Samsung Museum of Art LEEUM. The complex consists of two Museums, exhibiting permanent collections of traditional and modern art, and the Child Education & Cultural Art Center, an educational facility for fostering the creativity of the next generations. The two Museums exhibit the works of art already recognized, and the Center is a space for special exhibitions, experimenting with progressive and future forms of art. Setting a new standard of cooperative efforts between architects, the concepts of the Museum of Traditional Art are designed by Mario Botta, the Museum of Modern Art by Jean Nouvel, and the Child Education & Culture Center by Rem Koolhaas.
Samsung Museum of Art Leeum / Museum of

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Seoul, Korea Culture (Exhibition) 9,850m2 5 Stories and 2 Basements 2004 Grand Award, Seoul Architectural Work Award Honored, Korean Mario Botta Architetto
Designed by the Swiss architect Mario Botta, the inverted cone shape of the Museum of Traditional Art is associated with that of porcelain, and the rectangular mass guarding the treasured artworks of humankind reminds of the walled city of Seoul and its history. The solid wall as if protecting the ancient artworks from the elements is finished with terra cotta bricks, a metaphor to porcelain born of earth and fire. Located in a residential area, the unique shape and color bestow the role of landmark upon LEEUM. In the basement, the neutral space of the mixing chamber (lobby) connects the three architectures. Natural light is filtered into the chamber through the rotunda penetrating the building perpendicularly.
Samsung Museum of Art Leeum / Child Education &

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Seoul, Korea Culture (Exhibition) 13,254m2 2 Stories and 4 Basements 2004 Grand Award, Seoul Architectural Work Award Honored, Korean OMA
While designing the Child Education & Culture Center, Rem Koolhaas also sought to establish an organic flow of circulation between the three museums and the access to each building. In designing the Child Education & Culture Center, he proposed a black box that would conceptually float completely in the air while keeping the shape of the ground as it was excavated. The ideas are materialized in their best forms by applying black concrete for the first time in the world.
Samsung Information & Telecommunication R&D

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration HOK Suwon-si, Korea Research 132,647m2 25 Stories and 4 Basements 2001
The buildings of the Information and Communication Research Center (R3) are arranged on a site stretched along the axes of the 20-meter wide road and of the existing factory buildings. The new buildings, set back towards northwest as much as possible in order to create a buffer zone between the buildings and the 40-meter long road in the center of the site, are divided into three zones: the reception / welfare facilities and the testing facilities are placed in the lower floors, and the research facilities are placed in the upper floors for maximum security. A standard floor consists of three areas of administration, research and resting. Flexibility and efficiency of space are emphasized for the spaces in the areas of administration and research so that they can be freely reconfigured as necessary. Specialized laboratories are grouped together for efficient exchange of information and operation of the equipments between the laboratories. An OA floor system is installed for all the standard floors. The structure itself is earthquake resistant, designed by applying an earthquake importance factor of 1.5.The materials of green, double-layered low-E glass and the silver metallic panels usedin finishing the exterior skin symbolize the advanced image of the research center, and the properties of the glass and metal reflect the centers urban context.
Samsung Children's Museum

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Seoul, Korea Cultural 18,195m2 4 Stories and 2 Basements 1995
Samsung Medical Center

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Seoul, Korea Healthcare 211,860m2 20 Stories and 5 Basements 1995
Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd.

Samsung Research Institute

Location Program Area Floors Year Awards Collaboration Yongin-si, Korea Research 46,586m2 7 Stories 1987
Samsung Life Insurance Co.,Ltd.Headquarters

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OVERVIEW

REGIONAL TOP 10 (PACIFIC RIM)

Samsung Life Insurance Dangsan-dong Building

Samsung Life Insurance Office Guwol-dong, Incheon

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Yeongdeungpo

Samsung HRD Changjokwan Renovation

Samsung Regional Headquarters North America

Samsung Raemian Eastpalace

Samsung TFT LCD T8 LINE

Sungkyunkwan University Samsung Library

Samsung Cancer Center

Yonsei Samsung Library

Seoul, Korea Education(Library) 33,429m2 6 Stories and 3 Basement 2008

Seocho Samsung Town

Samsung Life Insurances Ulsan Headquarters

Samsung Engineering Center

Samsung Life Insurances Sunhwa-Dong Office

Samsung Techwin Pankyo R&D Center

Samsung NRD Semiconductor FAB

Samsung Child Care Center Hwaseong

Samsung A1 Semiconductor FAB

Samsung Geoje Hotel

Samsung R4 DM Reserch Center

Samsung Museum of Art LEEUM

Samsung Museum of Art Leeum / Museum of

Samsung Museum of Art Leeum / Child Education &

Samsung Information & Telecommunication R&D

Samsung Children's Museum

Samsung Medical Center

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd.

Samsung Research Institute

Samsung Life Insurance Co.,Ltd.Headquarters

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