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Gyeonghui-dang mixed-use
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Site Area:
1,929 SM Total Floor Area: 8,703 SM |
This project focuses on a space that engages with historical and cultural context. The site is in the middle of Seoul’s historical city center, the Jongno-gu District, within a historical preservation area. During the Chosun Dynasty, the site was part of Gyeonghui Palace (since destroyed and mostly dismantled by the Japanese). However, as part of the site is in a historical preservation area, we investigated and excavated to uncover relics, including part of the palace’s boundary wall and foundations. Thus, we developed our concept design to preserve the current condition of the site and adapt it to the owner’s requirements. The Relics Exhibition Museum preserves the historical context and provides a place of culture and education for the community.
Since part of the site is severely sloped and the maximum aboveground level development guideline calls for a FAR of 200 percent, our team searched a way to increase the overall rentable areas by utilizing the average ground-level elevation point to be set at the middle of the slope; therefore, the abutting road level was established as a B2 level. After a series of calculations, we provided more than an 80 percent increase in the FAR. The local building regulations define the underground area as “the area that is more than 50 percent buried.” We carved out a portion of the lower two floors to allow for a more open and pleasant retail shopping environment. As the program requires connecting four levels of retail spaces above the road level, we inserted an outdoor stair connecting the road and the top retail space located on the adjoining wall of the Seonggok Art Museum. Since the long narrow shape of the site encounters a small area of street facade, we expanded four floors of the retail spaces to be vertically stacked along with our designed public staircase that penetrates the building; the five floors of office space juxtapose in a separate circulation system. |