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Songhyeon Cultural Centre
Jongno Urban Design Competition
Competition Entry

- Year: 2020
- Location: Jongno-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Type: Community Centre


Back to Home Blurring the Scene




Songhyeon Site where is empty now, has complicated history related to various owners; government, company, and so on. History of the Songhyeon Site about the owner fianlly stopped. The fields densely covered with grass reflects this status. Now, this proposal suggests the recovery of nature and characteristic of the site, and return to people not just the power but citizens. To achieve these purposes, slow recovery strategies are used; reflecting imperfect scenes and constructing with simplifed elements of traditional architecture of Korea. Through these methods, people are reminded the original characteristics and histories not in directly, but through implication.




The site is surrounded by many historical places. Therefore, the motive of composition and construction logic of the project and its spaces is came from this kinds of remains. Visual communication with Bukak Mountain has new position on the project; not directly viewed, but reflected on mirror and blurred. Through these methods, this project is located on the boundary between the past and the present.



Motive from the elements that consists the surrounding context. Bukak Mountain is the visual destination of the circulation. Construction logics and space atmosphere of the buildings are derived from the corridor and pavilion from Korean traditional architecture.




The timber that was used in traditional constructioon is replaced by iron beam that shows the modernity of the city we are living in. Only the space that was composed by old spirit would remain. Other elements like ornament and decoration would be alternated or eliminated.-This is the harmony of the past and today.