The Design Competition for the Seoul Waterfront intended to promote the design of an leasure area, a park that is beeing inserted in a defined Masterplan that contains Business and R&D blocks.
This design should contain also a Floodgate, Marina, Convention Center, reconsider an existing Sports Center currently located in the center of the site and propose additional program.
CONCEPT
Surviving a painful war, Seoul was left with empty battlefields, zero economy, and conflicting governments. To recover from this aftermath, it focused on cost-effective construction plans to balance the needs of a regenerating city - It was inevitable that the structures of standardized assemblies were mass-produced to keep up with the ever-increasing demand of a crowding society.
These generic features drive the modernized Seoul to become more homogeneous.
Acknowledging this societal homogeneity, our vision is to design a park that celebrates diversity in many ways. The Magok region is located in the West end of the city and embodies one of the last existing farms in Seoul. From these conditions of the site, we envisioned to have an urban farm (producing energy) as well as a waterfront acting as a traditionally styled Korean gate to blur the clear lines between two typical sets of conflicting values – the traditional versus the modern and the natural versus the artificial. It is our intention to juxtapose these contrasting ideas in a public space of diversity from which an eclectic society can emerge.
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SIMULATED CIRCULATION
people in
people in & out
water flow
FLOODGATE (zone A)
MARINA&SPORTS CENTER (zone B +zone D)
LAKE PARK (zone B +zone C)
PARK HOTEL (zone D)
SOLAR CLOUD (zone E+Reservoir)
PIEZZO FIELD
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Seoul today has expanded through the old city boundary and exists as a complex network of subway stations, large complexes, and metropolitan cities. Nodes of thresholds connected to other nodes are emerging into an open system that is inherently borderless allowing for continuous flow of various idea, energy, people, and goods to enter/exit the city. The traditional significance for a gate preserving valuable social message has been lost.
A traditional gate is interesting because spatially it creates a moment of conflict. A flow of people entering the city collides with the opposite flow that leaves the city, increasing chances of random interaction.
We explore the idea of Magok as a Korean gate by maximizing crowd interaction and creating the most diverse traffic as possible by clashing the two flows from in and out of the city. These mixed circulations are then embraced with the water stream that permeates the site. A waterfront of diverse traffics will emerge by fusing the human traffic with the water flow.
ENERGY HARVEST
Photovoltaic cells are arrayed across the reservoir and Zone E to extract solar energy. The cells are designed to adjust themselves according to the sun’s path provided by the weather database. This porous layer exists as a breathable skin allowing for the aquatic plants to grow underneath. These plants help clean the water and create new aquatic ecology in the site.
Energy can be collected through piezoelectric materials when stress is applied. This design integrates piezo-arrayed pathways within the natural ladscape of the park. They are arranged more densely in areas where more human traffic is expected such as the intersections. As Seoul crowd moves through the park, energy is collected. The crowd-generated electricity is then fed back into the new high-tech areas arouind the site and also exhibited within the park in forms of various light and sound.
The piezo devices are efficiently networked in ways that it can expect people’s movement. Majority of the system is turned off when no recent human activity has been sensed. When a piezo-sensor is pressed, however, it signals the sensors around to stand by for energy collection.
More info at http: http://ynotwhy.com
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Seoul today has expanded through the old city boundary and exists as a complex network of subway stations, large complexes, and metropolitan cities. Nodes of thresholds connected to other nodes are emerging into an open system that is inherently borderless allowing for continuous flow of various idea, energy, people, and goods to enter/exit the city. The traditional significance for a gate preserving valuable social message has been lost.
A traditional gate is interesting because spatially it creates a moment of conflict. A flow of people entering the city collides with the opposite flow that leaves the city, increasing chances of random interaction.
We explore the idea of Magok as a Korean gate by maximizing crowd interaction and creating the most diverse traffic as possible by clashing the two flows from in and out of the city. These mixed circulations are then embraced with the water stream that permeates the site. A waterfront of diverse traffics will emerge by fusing the human traffic with the water flow.
ENERGY HARVEST
Photovoltaic cells are arrayed across the reservoir and Zone E to extract solar energy. The cells are designed to adjust themselves according to the sun’s path provided by the weather database. This porous layer exists as a breathable skin allowing for the aquatic plants to grow underneath. These plants help clean the water and create new aquatic ecology in the site.
Energy can be collected through piezoelectric materials when stress is applied. This design integrates piezo-arrayed pathways within the natural ladscape of the park. They are arranged more densely in areas where more human traffic is expected such as the intersections. As Seoul crowd moves through the park, energy is collected. The crowd-generated electricity is then fed back into the new high-tech areas arouind the site and also exhibited within the park in forms of various light and sound.
The piezo devices are efficiently networked in ways that it can expect people’s movement. Majority of the system is turned off when no recent human activity has been sensed. When a piezo-sensor is pressed, however, it signals the sensors around to stand by for energy collection.
More info at http: http://ynotwhy.com
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