This proposal is the result of a creative international collaboration between 100 Architects (Shanghai), Carve (Amsterdam) and Urien (Seoul), with the local coordination & support of the landscape architect Walter Ryu.
With the purpose of improving the public facilities of the Swimming Pools in Jamsil Hangang Park, the Municipality of Seoul launched a Competition looking for a design solution that would bring back the former glory of this 30-years-old facility on the banks of the Hang River, not only by renovating the Swimming Pools themselves, but rather by seeking a solution that would reactivate the entire Park as a public destination within the City of Seoul.
Therefore, the mission transcended the renovation of the pools, targeting a restoration of the natural landscape and fulfilling an entire urban regeneration, turning Hangang Park into a major urban-natural landmark in Seoul, to be used in all seasons.
The proposal unifies the pools complex with the surrounding cultural facilities. On the West, the Sagak Sagak Artistic Area, and on the East, the Botanical Learning Center. Thus, we connected those 3 facilities through a system of meandering interconnected pedestrian paths, allowing easy pedestrian connectivity between all of them, which would turn the entire riverfront into a prominent public natural destination.
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