Youngju Bandabi Sport Complex

July 30, 2021

The Bandaebi Sports Center will become a new entrance point located within the Yeongju Citizen Sports Park athletic facilities site. It serves as a mediator that connects people entering from the University Road 153 to both the inside and outside of the Bandaebi Sports Center, as well as other facilities within the site, such as the Community Sports Hall, indoor swimming pool, boxing training center, Citizen Sports Park, tennis court, soccer field, volleyball court, National Sports Center, and Citizen Sports Park. The external space configuration encourages the Bandaebi Sports Center to be closely integrated with the site by opening up to a variety of external spaces that are adjacent to the site. Planning for natural and convenient access for different people and various modes of transportation such as cars, bicycles, and scooters, the Bandaebi Sports Center is designed to be a mediator between people, the city, and public spaces, based on consideration and understanding for each individual.

Over the past decade, public buildings in Yeongju have positively transformed the landscape of small cities and improved the quality of life for its residents. Yeongju has been steadily and clearly attempting urban regeneration through public buildings. Based on the characteristics of the Bandaebi space, if we try to capture the core idea in the public building, we can think of a more fair and inclusive public building based on the ideology of universal design. The Yeongju Bandaebi Sports Center embodies the idea of a public building that aims to accommodate more people’s diversity and everyday life, rather than being a space for a specific minority. Through this, Yeongju aims to achieve successful public buildings that have already been carried out and also match the goal of urban regeneration.

Year : 2021

Location : Youngju, Korea

Size : 2,035 ㎡

Status : Competition Entry (2nd Prize)

Type : Community Facility

Principal in Charge :

Seojoo Lee, Hyojung Kim (I.f), Allie Yeseul Chung (I.f Manila), Dongil Kim (Kyung Hee University), Minho Lee (func. Architects)

Environmental Engineering : Dongil Kim

Jangseungpo Library

June 8, 2021

Jangseungpo Port was designated as a trading port in 1965, and it was a lively and diverse place where different people and things gathered and dispersed. The library for the people here should be functionally excellent, faithfully fulfilling its role as a place for preserving the collected books and sharing knowledge, and the proposed urban space is a public space but also a very personal place that individuals can privately own but is primarily a public space. It is a place where sharing and enjoyment coexist and are separated, where individual experiences are gathered, accumulated, and defined, and ultimately, a new library is proposed where space is configured from considerations for the community, and a new type of space that can contain both daily and non-daily experiences is presented as a truly meaningful public space for the city.

Starting from individuals and reaching out to many, it ultimately becomes a library for everyone - overlapping and intersecting with the activities and traces of individuals and groups to create a diverse and resident-friendly library. As people, objects, spaces, time, and memories accumulate, they form a complex public space - the library is designed to faithfully fulfill its primary function. It also incorporates intangible libraries that surround and embrace it. Here, each generation can gather, overlap, and share space together, or enjoy it individually as needed. The diverse library accommodates and embraces the community.

The library projects and embraces its surroundings through the material of its unobtrusive form - rather than standing out in its relationship with the city, it is a humble library that guards its place. The significance of the metal exterior that fully receives and respects the surrounding area is crucial. Depending on the characteristics of the material, it can project and absorb the surroundings, enveloping and reflecting them. The colors and textures of the city and the surrounding greenery will dye the library exterior like an image.