Also Plants Fly: Facade Interfaces

I propose here two examples of faced-interface that are very present in Korea, the first one related with the concept of overloading, the second one as an example of public regulation.

The first facade is from Daejeon City Hall (대전시청) and is a good example of advertisement overloading. I found that in such cases it is really difficult to find the store/business you were looking for simply looking at the building from outside. The overloading of information somehow completely defeats any value of the advertisement.

The second facade is from the Hanbit Apartment in Daejeon (한빛, 유 성) and shows the name of the building, in this case CPU. Since Daejeon is the scientific city of Korea (a sort of Korean Silicon Valley), also the apartments name respects this philosophy (I found an E=mc^2 building as well).

This facade reminds me somehow those around where i live in Italy. Over there, the color of the houses can be chosen only among a strictly regulated set of colors, to guarantee homogeneity and overall sense of harmony. In Daejeon, harmony and homogeneity correspond to the underlying theme of science such that it accompanies the majority of the official public displays.