Sky Garden in Seoul

Introduction

Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is a city with an ancient history and beautiful natural scenery. Some of Seoul's historic sites reflect the distribution of power in South Korea, where big conglomerates and chaebols have a higher status than governments. Public facilities such as galleries and libraries are usually provided by the government elsewhere, while in South Korea, most are provided by businesses like Samsung and Hyundai. This phenomenon can indeed create some practical buildings, but they are usually also constrained.

Park mayor's project is trying to correct this imbalance. Sky Garden came into being as several of his chief planners sought to make the city more pedestrian-friendly, to preserve existing historical sites rather than to demolish and rebuild new structures.

Sky Garden in Seoul

Reason to Be Selected

Through the renovation of old buildings, the introduction of green plants and the use of modern technology to create more pleasant walkways and green spaces for pedestrians and the public in dense large cities, I think this should be the direction of future urban planning, not just the feelings of a few people. The fight for the right of pedestrian road involves the travel demand of urban traffic, but it is a creative transformation to build "bridges" in the air connecting the convenience points of the community without affecting the ground accessibility. On the one hand, to separate the walkways, not only to ensure pedestrian safety, but also to make full use of space to create more urban culture; on the other hand, the old road reconstruction, rather than the principle of overthrowing reconstruction, not only saves costs but also reflects the respect and protection of urban designers for the history of urban development.

Highlights:

 Abandoned high priced roads become functional links

Completed the unfinished business in London.

Both a park and a botanical garden.

Create entertainment venues

Details

Abandoned high priced roads become functional links : Sky Garden, also known as Seoul Road 7017, commemorates the date of the original building and the completion of the renovation. It is also a representative and experimental work of the city's transition from "car-friendly" to "pedestrian-friendly". The original cement structure was reinforced by necessary elevators, staircases, escalators and other facilities to connect the ground. These bridges also connect commercial buildings, which increase their value by spending money. Other uses, such as coffee shops, performing spaces, supermarkets and so on, are well distributed.

Both a park and a botanical garden: Designed to provide the public with a living dictionary containing some of Seoul's native Korean species, they are now being moved downtown. We want to connect city dwellers with nature, and at the same time provide an excellent view of the historic Seoul Station and the South Gate. All plants are native Korean species and are distributed in Korean alphabetical order. The type of plant corresponds to its distribution and use.

Create entertainment venues: Varieties of trees, shrubs and flowers combine to turn air-polluted highways into green recreational walkways. A viaduct near Seoul's main site is designed to make the city, especially the traffic center, greener, friendlier and more attractive, while also linking up the green space around it.

Completed the unfinished business in London: The Sky City and Garden Bridge projects differ significantly in concept and implementation: on the one hand, the former costs 400,000 pounds while the latter is expected to cost 2 million pounds; on the other hand, the Garden Bridge project has been stranded for many years, while the Sky Garden project in Seoul was named by the Dutch architect team MVRDV in 2015. Within the next two years, it is now open to the outside world.

Conclusions

From highway bridges in New York to Garden Bridges in London to Sky Gardens in Seoul, big cities around the world are exploring the distribution of power between cars and pedestrians in urban space, and the deep contact between man and nature. But London's garden bridge project ended in failure. By contrast, Seoul's two-year, one-fourth-cost skyline garden, which is now open to the public, takes advantage of old urban viaducts, remodels more than 24,000 plants a kilometer long, and aims to gain more road rights for pedestrians and create more space for citizens to get in touch with nature.

 

FULL STORY:

Sky Garden in Seoul

Published on Friday, October 27, 2017 
TOPICS | Seoul | Intelligent | Landscape

Reference:

https://www.mvrdv.nl/projects/seoul-skygarden

https://www.archdaily.com/882382/seoullo-skygarden-mvrdv



Lat: 37.5567
Lng: 126.97
Type:
Region: Asia
Scale: District
Field: Landscape
City: Seoul