SPACE April 2024 (No. 677)
A Learning Centre on the Floor of a Park
Yeonui Ecological Park is a small detention basin park encircled by an apartment complex. A detention basin is a nature-friendly urban facility that temporarily stores storm water to prevent the surrounding neighbourhood from flooding, creating a beautiful ecological environment in tune with the changing water level over time and across the seasons. There were five tall cottonwood trees on the site. Instead of cutting them down, we placed the building behind the trees, envisioning the building as the backdrop for the park. In order for Eco-Space Yeonui to co-exist with the park, we felt it necessary to focus on the outdoor space to serve the purpose of observing and learning about nature. We didn’t take an exclusive attitude to the outside, but we adopted an approach to circulation which encourages organic encounters and draws the spaces of the park into the building. The outdoor circulation over three floors becomes a pathway, a learning centre, and a garden, and each, depending on the context, provide different views of the park. Children who visit the park learn from living beings in the ...
Cho Yoonhee (GUBO Architects) + Hong Jihak (Chun
Park Shinyoung
1320-9, Sinjeong-dong, Yangcheon-gu, Seoul, Korea
tourist rest facility
37,513.8m²
308.76m²
381.52m²
2F
2
7.75m
1.53%
1.87%
RC
exposed concrete, Sto, granite-bush hammered
paint, granite-bush hammered, exposed concrete
YOON Structural Engineers
Doohyun
MK Chunghyo
YEIN ARCHI.TECH.
Nov. 2020 – June. 2021
Oct. 2021 – Oct. 2022
Yangcheon-gu Office