Dalki Theme Park is an interesting place in South Korea built by Slade Architecture in the year 2000. The theme park is geared towards children and is based around a cartoon character, Dalki, who is a young girl who lives in a garden with her friends and posseses a wild imagination as well as a heightened sense of fashion. The characters were actually created to help market fashion products.

The building itself consists of primarily shopping but also areas for eating and playing as well as exhibits where children can play with the Dalki characters. According to the architects:

“Learned dichotomies (imaginary/ real, shopping / play, natural/ synthetic, site/ building, culture/ commerce) and scale differences create ”disbelief” and impede users from fully engaging the realization of this imaginary world. Borrowing literary strategies for ”suspension of disbelief”, our fluid organization of space and program blurs these dichotomies and eases users into the ’story’ of Dalki.”

“The building defines three zones vertically; scale-less artificial garden and sky at the ground level, flowing mixed program space on the main level, on the roof a garden and lounge ... read more >>