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INTEGRATED ROAD“Maintain existing one-way roads on east and west side of the Seun Greenway Park, and accommodate these roads into the design of the deck. Also, design a pedestrian-vehicle road with safety features.” (pag.34)
The project proposes a system of articulated pathsl that aims to distinguish and separate the pedestrian and vehicular routes. The roads and decks become places to be integrated with a number of elements that facilitate safety in traffic. Warning and informational panels and protection elements are tools to define paths, on both sides of the building, rich of directions. The facade of the building becomes an integral part of the road contributing to the general architectural qualification.
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DECK EXPANSION“Design structures to connect the deck and its neighboring buildings, and facilities to connect Seunsangga Complex and the surrounding areas. […] This part may or may not be constructed in Phase 1, and factor this into the design.” (pag. 30)
The system of the deck becomes connective matrix with the context. The expansion of the element is formed with the evolution of the built environment and goes to recreate a new urban scheme in which the built is called by the links and areas of the public sector. The choice is to take down the urban apparatus from Seunsangga buildings through a new idea of the city that will be developed in a pattern of layers in which the design of the deck sets the general distribution pattern.
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CROSSING IN HEIGHT“Design a crosswalk over 20m wide and a sidewalk that connects the Seunsangga Complex buildings and the near- by roads Jong-ro, Cheonggyecheon-ro, Eulji-ro, Mareun-nae-gil and Toegye-ro so that pedestrians can continue on ground level.” (pag.30)
The height of nine meters develops a new connective pedestrian network that extends from the deck, to the coverage of the square and finally to the pedestrian crossing on Jong-ro. The overhead crossing allows to extend the paths along the Seunsangga and continue the crosswalk up to the Jongmyo Park. This approach, placing crossing higher than ground level, allows better management of pedestrians and vehicles in order to improve traffic circulation. This is an attempt to re-compose the complex’s elements with the context and to redefine its architectural character.
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CLIMBS PALIMPSEST“May suggest elevators, slopes, and convenience facilities on the deck and pedestrian bridge for the pedestrian’s convenience.” (pag. 30)
The placement of the elements of the vertical distribution highlights the intersections of Seunsangga with the historical urban grids. The vertical elements added to the building have a dual function. They allow the highlighting of the ancient urban system transforming the building that interrupts it in a sort of tool of detection. While the repetition of vertical structures defines a new urban landscape as recognizable system of authorizing transformations not all predictable and extended around.
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VERTICAL CLIMBS“Design a vertical circulation from above the deck to below without restricting parking or pedestrian movements below.” (pag. 31-32)
The vertical elements allow a progressive modification of the Seunsangga up to the level of the cover that is turned into a large roof garden. This system of vertical connections allows the gradual increase of the plant engineering (elevators, air conditioning and service networks) without preventing the use of the interior of the building. The vertical elements define a system of paths at different heights that can also be extended around the building.
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BRIDGE’S CLIMBS“Design a vertical circulation to the levels below for each pedestrian bridge” (pag. 33)
The redevelopment of the existing deck allows the realization of a continuous walkway that borders both the parties around the Seunsangga. The path goes beyond all elements (roads, the Cheonggyecheon, the Jongro)
connecting itself to the garden of the new covered square and to the Jongmyo Park. The pedestrian path identifies the major share of the new public pedestrian traffic and it is the element that also connects the new paths that will be generated by the redevelopment of the surroundings.
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PUBLIC PLATES“Putting pedestrians first, design a place where various public activities can take place that takes into consideration ongoing developments in the surrounding areas.” (pag. 31–32)
The progressive regeneration of the Seunsangga triggers processes of progressive qualification of the spaces around the building. This will be done in phase later.At first with the creation of quality public spaces at the sides of the building, even with the introduction of simple profiles (reserved spaces for public use, event, meeting). Subsequently also with the extension of public pathways in differentiated shares, in relation with the processes of transformation that will take place in the surrounding blocks.
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COVERED SQUARE“Design a Civic Space in the current location of Seun Greenway Park and connect this to the deck of Seunsangga Complex, to Jongmyo Park in the north, and the pedestrian crossing on Jong-ro.” (pag. 30)
The Seunsangga renews its face towards the important historical axis of Jong-ro. This is done with the realization of a covered square at different levels with links that allow easily to reach the different units. Both at the level of the land and at higher altitudes all surfaces are characterized by gardens and water tanks to create pleasant areas in connection with the Jongmyo Park. These public spaces promote, in different seasons, the holding of public events and community events.
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PEDESTRIAN COVER“Seunsangga Gadong faces Jongmyo and Cheonggyecheon which will increase pedestrian traffic. Factor this when designing the space above and below the deck.” (pag. 35)
The platforms that cover the square outside the Seunsangga are connected to the side decks and constitute a conclusion to the Jongmyo Park. Here they are connected by a pedestrian bridge. The different platforms have many links between the different dimensions and allow a stop in articulated places, full of trees and water tanks. At the same time they are scenic places to the Jong-ro and towards the Jongmyo Park and fit to be a meeting place for different pedestrian flows.
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EVOLUTION IN TIME“Propose program and provide utilization plan for the area, considering events and activities that will take place in the civic place.” (pag. 30)
The redevelopment of Seunsangga is thought as a gradual process that takes place over time. Each transformation can take place at different times and in different points of the building. The types of interventions are gradual: they can start with simple changes of use, related to events and social processes, and then consolidated in construction operations. This also affects the surrounding areas of the building that will be progressively involved in the processes of transformation, according to the opportunities favored by the interventions on Seunsangga.
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CIVIC SPACE PROGRAM“Propose a detailed program for this area. Entrants may consider public amenities such as restrooms and small- scale stores.” (pag. 36)
The transformation process of Seunsangga will establish over time a program of interventions on public spaces favored by new routes and new architectural elements. There will be built on the sides of the building small squares and plazas that will alter the relationship between the surrounding buildings and the large building. This will also promote interventions of greater magnitude with the incorporation of more housing units and the possible insertion of relevant functions.
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DETAILED PROGRAM“Putting pedestrians first, design a place where various public activities can take place that takes into consideration ongoing developments in the surrounding areas.” (pag. 31–32)
The new architectural elements (walkways, bridges, stairs, elevators, entrances) shape the processes of regular transformation that can be defined with specific programs and projects developed to the necessary scale of detail. This will capture the specificity of individual locations in relation to the unitary structure of the large Seunsangga, also in relation to the opportunities arising from the different construction projects.
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DRIVEWAY SYSTEM“Can use space below deck as long as vehicle flow is not restricted.” (pag. 39) – “Entrants can change the parking system to reduce parking space to make way for a wider pavement.” (pag. 31–32)
The new decks reorganize the system of the pedestrian and vehicular traffic through separate paths. In this way it is guaranteed maximum security, the ease of paths and the possibility of interconnection between the different types of circulations at any point in the Seunsangga building. At ground level vehicular traffic guarantees access to parking and the performance of all the services that the building needs.
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ROOF GARDEN“Entrants can freely propose PR, exhibitions, amenities that suit the surrounding area.” (pag. 39)
The building Seunsangga with its linear structure and its size becomes an extraordinary opportunity to create a linear roof garden on the cover. This garden ideally connects the mountain Namsan to Jongmyo Park and defines a linear park of great value both for the richness of spaces that follow, for the various quotas, for panoramic city and the natural elements. The building in this way becomes a positive element of the urban landscape precisely because of its unique size and continuity.
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SQUARE UNDER BRIDGE“Suggest a use for the space outside the Seunsangga Complex that meets the pedestrian bridge.” (pag. 33)
The expected architectural elements allow to enhance some particular points making them particularly significant nodes of the whole intervention. An example is the square located at the intersection between the Seunsangga building and Cheonggyecheon. The bridge that allows the continuity of the walkway to the portion of the decks enriched this important node making it a spatial location of intersections and connection paths.
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BELOW THE DECK“As long as the minimum height restriction of 4.5m is met, entrants can propose additional structures deemed useful to revitalizing the Seun(sangga Complex below the deck.” (pag. 31 – 32)
The redevelopment of the routes and the introduction of the architectural elements generate a planned regeneration process in the spaces below decks. On the ground level of the Seunsangga will be proceeds transversal passages along the lines of ancient paths in order to create relations between the two parts of the building and its surroundings. The constant presence of links to higher levels, openings of light and pedestrian bridges will make these spaces below decks places of high architectural quality and very visited.
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OVERSTRUCTURES“Entrants can propose additional structures deemed use- ful to revitalizing the Seunsangga Complex above the deck as long as they do not disturb pedestrians.” (pag. 31 – 32)
One of the methods of intervention for the renovation of the Seunsangga is to graft architectural elements on the surfaces of decks and on the facades of the building. These items are available for different uses and are added as needs resulting from special conditions (activities, opportunities, events), they can be prepared even temporarily, easily moved and removed. They have the role of triggering different processes of reuse of the building and they are defined by standardized types which provide possibilities of differentiation for measurements, color and material.
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REST AREAS“Design a deck as a rest area in the city.” (pag. 31 – 32)
With the architectural upgrading the building of Seunsangga is constituted as a positive element for the city. Its special architectural nature of linear and repetitive elements, referring to a certain idea of the modern city, thanks to changes in design allows to cross different contexts adapting to them. The building so changed becomes a kind of multifaceted urban walk, a place to stop and rest in the thick texture of streets and buildings of the contemporary city.
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WEST SIDE ROAD“A 4-meter-wide road to the west of the Seunsangga Complex and a 7~10-meter-wide green walkway on the east will be developed in the future. Factor these into the proposal.” (pag. 31 – 32)
The redevelopment of the building Seunsangga provides a path of vehicular service. The width of the road will be determined by the type of service that will be predicted and may vary in relation to particular locations to define an articulated path. At crossings there will be realized useful widenings to temporary parking and access to underground parking. Particular attention will be given to the differentiation of the levels of pedestrian and vehicle paths and there will be placed elements to moderate the speed of vehicles.
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SMALL& LARGE DISTRICTS“The west side of Seunsangga Gadong is a small-scale Re- generation District and the east is a large-scale Regenera- tion District. Factor this into the design.” (pag. 35)
The size and the role of Seunsangga propose a dual scale of intervention: one linked to the urban dimension, the other relating to the architectural one. In this sense the building redevelopment proposes two approaches. There is a general approach to the realization of the continuous green linear path and one particular place where each specific occasion becomes retraining starting from its specificity. This double scale allows even limited intervention and partial ones as long as it is included in an overall program of implementation.
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MEDIUM DISTRICT“The east and west sides of Cheonggye-Sangga and Daelim-Sangga are middle-scale Regeneration Districts. Factor this into the design.” (pag. 35)
The design of the building, built by the planned interventions, allows to use the system of pedestrian paths in different levels as the source of a regeneration of neighborhoods. This may be achieved, for example, with the extension of the paths from Seunsnggaa towards some neighboring districts to connect other buildings to the retrained system of paths. This functional relationship can be the origin of gradual transformation processes of the surrounding buildings, triggering over time even substitute processes, partial or more overall.
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GREENWAY“Consider the scenery and green corridor from Bukaksan Mountain ~ Jongmyo ~ Seunsangga Complex ~ Namsan Mountain.” (pag. 33)
The large size of the Seunsangga building establishes a relationship between the different scales of the project. The architectural, urban and territorial scales define a system of green routes, at different levels of the building. The roof garden, the green walks and the wooded platforms compose a green corridor that connects at the territorial scale Mount Namsan and Mt. Bukaksan, and that physically combines at the urban scale Jongmyo Park with large roof garden Seunsangga.
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DRAFT LANDSCAPE“Giving priority to vegetation that flourishes in the climate of the site area, propose landscape plan of the site.” (pag. 33)
The construction of the roof garden, the greenwalks and platforms will provide for a specific landscape project with the use of local vegetation as the Korean pine, bamboo, fruit trees and water as a fundamental design elements. The design of the roof garden includes elements of variation and of articulation in relation to the tracks of the ancient urban paths. These intersections define the sides of the linear path, several rest areas with water tanks and small pavilions in the tradition of the Korean garden.
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DEEP SLAB“Consider proper soil depth, watering and drainage facilities for the vegetation on the deck.” (pag. 33)
The decks will be characterized by the implementation of a series of technological elements suitable for the cultivation of ornamental plants, water tanks, tanks for hydroculture and vertical green walls. Other added elements will characterize the walls of Seunsanggaa. These elements may vary over time, changing their arrangement according to particular topics and according to the succession of the seasons. In this way, the decks will be changing greenwalks while the roof garden on the top will be a permanent garden.
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NEW INDIPENDENT DECK“Consider existing condition of Sampung-Sangga and Pungjeon Hotel, and propose the area that can be connected and the area that should be distanced to the existing buildings. The new deck should be designed as an independent structure.” (pag. 31 – 32)
The new decks and other architectural elements (bridges, elevators and stairs) are independent structures that will not interfere structurally with the existing building. The used technologies and materials allow rapid assembly, easy modification and, as required, also easy disassembly. In this way the structure can be made for parts and according to a time schedule differentiated in relation to the different needs of the activities that take place within the Seunsanggaa.
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NATURAL LIGHT“Create a pleasant pedestrian environment below the deck allowing natural lighting.” (pag. 31 – 32)
All the decks of the Seunsangga building are made of light structures and technologies that will allow them an easy modification according to all the changing needs. In this sense it will be very easy to achieve a series of large skylights at the higher level facing to the lower level, creating passages of light, visual relationships and allowing functional links. These skylights and passages may be subsequently modified.
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CONTESTUAL VIEWS“Deck or pedestrian bridge area that conveniently connects surrounding areas and has a good view of city scape such as Jongmyo, Cheonggyecheon, and Namsan Mountain.” (pag. 39)
Seunsanggaa building for its size and extension lends itself to be a great point of view of the city and surrounding landscape. The building with the construction of the roof garden, stairways, elevators and walkways, becomes a complex optical device for observing the city. Some places will be prepared with equipment and instrumentation to facilitate the panoramic viewing of the city, its architectural emergencies and the ring of mountains that surrounds it.
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CROSSING IN HEIGHT
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CONTESTUAL VIEWS
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COVERED SQUARE
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CIVIC SPACE PROGRAM
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DRIVEWAY SYSTEM
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ROOF GARDEN
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CONTESTUAL VIEWS
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SMALL & LARGE DISTRICT
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GREENWAY
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NEW INDIPENDENT DECK
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