4 HABITATS_SEOUL

Known domestically as Korea’s main outdoor gear brand since 1954, few consumers are aware Kolon is an industrial force whose flexible fibers supply large sectors of the fashion, automotive, digital media, and military industries with their base materials. Both its raw and engineered materials offer physical protection against climate and contamination, while enabling and innovating our lifestyles. We toured factory production lines and were awed by the beauty and range of fibers, films, and textiles rolling out. We decided to create space from Kolon’s materials themselves in their raw, massive state.

We also shed our assumptions about plastics. Everywhere and nowhere, [flexible] plastics offer utility, endurance, affordability, convenience.  After two years of research, we decided to tell one story at a time.Spunbond was our material of choice. Printed off the roll and hung, 160 layers of Spunbond create 4 ‘habitats’ of repeated human profiles that evolve and transform, one person at a time. Each explores the range of selves we inhabit as solitary and social beings. These habitats are transportable and reconfigurable, designed to adapt to its host venue.