SeunSanGGa citywalk: permanent tranSformationRe-StRuctuRing Seoul’S SeunSangga complex

Team Thomas Stellmach, Alexandra Chechetkina, Benjamin Scheerbarth for TSPA

Collaborators Crosby Studio, Luka Bezjak, Javier ReboredaDate 2015Type Open competitionClient SeunCityWalkLocation Seoul, South KoreaSubject Urban designStatus Competition

Contemporary Seoul and its society are changing ever faster. The insufficient flexibility of the Seunsangga mega-structure, a grotesque relic from a different time - has made this com-petition necessary. Can we make a design that goes beyond putting lipstick on the gorilla? Can we design a solution that will not be obsolete again soon?

Our proposal: let Seoul celebrate lightness and openness, na-ture and technology, flexibility and transformation, embracing the dynamic, permanent change that distinguishes the city. We propose to slow down the speed of transformation and phase the process over years, not months. This will reduce negative impacts and enable the project to react to unfore-seeable demands that will inevitably appear during the time of realisation, and attract and integrate the currenttenants of the area instead of displacing them. Moreover slowness can cast the building process into an additional quality: the transformation of Seunsangga as a continuous event. The demolition of unneeded elements, the reprogram-ming and the rebuilding turns into a series of opportunitiesfor temporary actions and events to happen, a permanent injection of liveliness, culture and renewal into the neighbor-hood.

GREEN LINK FIGURE GROUND OUTSIDE IN

3-FLOOR PLAN 1:600

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EVENT SPACE

BAMBOOSTAIRCASE

PLAYGROUND

LIBRARY AMPHITHEATER

SAND SURFACE SWIMMING POOL

SCATE RAMP

ELEVATORS

YOGA

FRENCH GARDEN

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POSSIBLE BUILDING LIFE SCENARIOS

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