
SNU DAAE 4.1
Seoul, 2011
Seoul, 2011
Adapting Presence/ Present Adapting
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all . . . Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing…
Luis Buñuel
Seoul is constantly changing. The present change is a constant expansion of the city outwards towards the periphery. Is this condition inevitable or are there other models? In this studio we will seek to find a new model which considers two points:
PRESERVATION
Retain and work with an existing building, Sewon Sanga, an icon of the 1970s which will soon be demolished and replaced with a generic, glazed modern architecture that is inundating the world from Dubai to Phoenix via Hanoi.
STOP THE SPRAWL
To present another viable option to the sprawling city, we will seek to introduce a new public programme into the existing building as to make the building centre for people all around Seoul, from children to pensioners.
Studio Instructor
Prof. Peter W. Ferretto
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all . . . Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing…
Luis Buñuel
Seoul is constantly changing. The present change is a constant expansion of the city outwards towards the periphery. Is this condition inevitable or are there other models? In this studio we will seek to find a new model which considers two points:
PRESERVATION
Retain and work with an existing building, Sewon Sanga, an icon of the 1970s which will soon be demolished and replaced with a generic, glazed modern architecture that is inundating the world from Dubai to Phoenix via Hanoi.
STOP THE SPRAWL
To present another viable option to the sprawling city, we will seek to introduce a new public programme into the existing building as to make the building centre for people all around Seoul, from children to pensioners.
Studio Instructor
Prof. Peter W. Ferretto
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