Con el objetivo de rediseñar y convertir el Parque Dongdaemun en una meca para la industria del diseño global y hacer de la Ciudad de Seul un hito a nivel mundial se organizo un concurso de diseño internacional y por invitación, en este concurso participaron únicamente 8 estudios:

* Participantes Coreanos: Jo Seong-Ryong, Choi Mun-Gyu, Seung Hyo-Sang y Yu Geol.

* Participantes Extranjeros: Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, FOA London, MVRDV.

Resultando ganador del primer lugar Zaha Hadid Architects, Jo Seong-Ryong del segundo lugar y Steven Holl Architects del tercer lugar.

El programa para el parque Dongdaemun inlcuye:

• Parque [incluyendo la restauración de tesoros culturales y la demolición del Estadio Dongdaemun].

• Complejo Mundial de Diseño: 62,800 m2 de área construida.

• Área subterránea: 11,000 m2.

Con un total de mas de 83,000 m2 el proyecto se equipara con espacios para exhibición multi propósito, salas de convenciones, salas de exhibición, centro de información, educativo, archivo digital y un laboratorio de diseño. Se busca crear una meca global para el diseño creativo através de la organización de exhibiciones internacionales de diseño y conferencias.


Texto en inglés.

Situated within the urban depths of South Korea’s largest shopping and business district, Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park will provide shoppers, tourists and residents of Seoul with a place of leisure, relaxation and refuge when it opens in 2010. Designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize winning architect Zaha Hadid, the project infuses the city’s dense urban center with an emerald core replete with rolling grass-covered roofs.

Hadid’s plans for the 85,000 square meter plaza focus on the needs of the people in this highly populated and densely urbanized district. -A fundamental aim of the scheme is to bring delight and inspiration to the people of Seoul by establishing a cultural hub in the center of one of the busiest and most historic districts of the city-, says Zaha Hadid. The plans for the center include a multi-purpose park, a design museum, a library, and other educational facilities.

The impressive 30,000 square meter park will both give homage to and re-interpret traditional Korean gardening design with reflecting pools, lotus ponds, pebble beds and bamboo grooves. Aside from providing an important green space in the city-center, the plaza will become a keystone between a historic district in the city and the rapidly growing contemporary culture. Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park is located near an ancient city wall which will be a central element of the composition of the building.

Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher joined the Mayor of Seoul, Sei-Hoon Oh, on April 28th for the groundbreaking ceremonies of the Dongdaemun Design Park and Plaza.




.- Fuente [español]: arquired.com.mx.

.- Fuente [inglés]: inhabitat.com, archinnovations.com y treehugger.com.