SPACE February 2025 (No. 687)
A café has been built at the centre of Gokgyocheon Stream which cuts across Asan-si horizontally before flowing into the West Sea. The site acts as a mediator between the urban and the natural as it faces a five-laned street at the front and a river at the back. The 3m level difference between the bank of the stream and the street functions as a border that bridges the two contexts while highlighting the site’s transitional character.
©SGHS
Site: Negativity and Penetration
The project began with the formation of a wide rectangular negative space that opens towards the stream by lowering the ground level to match the Gokgyocheon Stream trail. While the negative space is buried below the city level to overcome spatial constraints, it is exposed on the streamside as a plinth supporting the ground-level volume. The spatial structure that enables a gradual opening of the ground below the city towards nature demonstrates a material transition from the concrete wall that withstands the earth’s pressure to metal pillars and glass.
The inner courtyard (water garden) with its water space gently turns its co...
SGHS (Kang Hyunseok, Kim Gunho)
Yoo Jiung, Hong Cheolmin
203, Gokgyocheon-ro, Asan-si, Chungcheongnam-do,
neighbourhood living facility (café)
770㎡
153.7㎡
665.76㎡
B1, 2F
5
8m
19.96%
35.69%
RC, steel frame
tile, steel plate
paint on plywood
Yoon Structural Engineers
SUNGJI ENC
IERH
DAP Construction Co., Ltd.
June 2022 – Mar. 2023
Mar. 2023 – Feb. 2024
ANIMO PARTNERS
ATELIER LENSCAPE (Kim Eunyong)
HABB (Goo Bobae)
