-세운상가의 새로운 연결 다리 [ modostudio ] Sewoonsangga Re-Structuring Citywalk

modostudio-Sewoonsangga Re-Structuring Citywalk

 

이 프로젝트는 서울시에서 계힉한 세운상가 시티워크 재구조화 사업이다. 2017년에 개최된 국제 디자인 공모전의 당선 제안서에서 나온 이 프로젝트는 서울 중심부에 있는 세운상가의 상징적인 메가스트럭처와 선형 복합 건물을 따라 도시 공간의 회복과 재연결을 제공한다. 이 지상 공공 공간은 지상의 기존 공간과 함께 재개발되어 1.2km가 넘는 길이에 걸쳐 다른 인접한 보행자 인프라, 녹색, 휴식 및 상업 공간이 번갈아 가며 재연결된다. 새로운 도시 인프라는 "오픈 시티 플랫폼"이라 불리며, "젠트리피케이션" 과정을 피하면서 기존 세운상가 단지의 자발적인 변형 과정을 활성화할 수 있을 것이다.

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For many years the Seoul city planning Department has activated a process of enhancement of public pedestrian spaces and paths through the creation of a large infrastructural network able to fluidify pedestrian paths and connect different areas of the city at different levels; ground, underground, and aboveground. This process includes the project of re-structuring the Sewoonsangga Citywalk.

 

The project, which comes from the winning proposal of an international design competition held in 2017, provides the recovery and reconnection of urban spaces along the iconic megastructure and linear building complex of Sewoonsangga, in the heart of Seoul, which, since its construction in the late 60s, was equipped with elevated public city walks. These aboveground public spaces, together with the existing ones at the ground level, are redeveloped and reconnected with other adjacent pedestrian infrastructures, alternating green, rest, and commercial spaces, for over a 1,2 km length. The new urban infrastructure is called an "open city platform" and it will be able to activate a spontaneous process of transformation of the existing Sewoonsangga complex, avoiding a "gentrification" process.

 

The Sewoon district, well known for its social and productive characteristics and for the presence of thousands of craft businesses, is trying to transform itself through shared and people-participatory choices with a process that actively involves both the public administration and the citizens. The quality of the new Sewoonsangga Citywalk system is based on its capacity to be transformed and at the same time to activate continuous changes in its surroundings. Part of the existing Citywalk was interrupted, functions were not able to bring quality to the public areas and there was a deep disconnection of the Sewoonsangga complex at different levels.  

 

The new Citywalk reconnects and becomes a flexible infrastructure, able to change its behavior based on different time needs. The "continuous open platform" will dialogue with the city at two different scales. The first scale is an urban scale, the "Macro scale" which defines the platform as a continuous path able to reconnect many districts of the city from Jongmyo to Namsan and furthermore, a long pedestrian spine.  The other scale is the "Microscale". The open platform activates and supports the transformation of the different districts which meet along its path.

 

The platform adapts itself to the peculiarity of the different areas it meets, physically, conceptually, and socially. The open platform through a Macro and Microscale approach supports and activates a continuous transformation of the area in terms of community regeneration, Industrial restoration and mobility, and pedestrian improvement.

 

The open platform will be able to dialogue with the city in many ways activating the transformation of the area through a process of pedestrian and mobility improvement, community regeneration, and industrial restoration.  Quality of life means for example less urban noise, easy space perception, safety in walking, and outdoor meeting spaces. That is why the projects give priority to the increment of pedestrian and bike spaces as is the only solution to increase quality of life. We propose a continuous pedestrian path able to cross a big part of the city and able to connect many districts of Seoul. An open pedestrian and flexible platform can have possible future expansion based on future urban transformations. 

 

Photography by JongOh Kim

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