Layered Ground, Layering Forest

“Layered Ground, Layering Forest” is a project that turns a multi-story concrete mega-structure into a multi-story forest. Instead of demolishing the buildings and creating a large urban park, it makes a high floor area ratio(FAR) green ecosystem from Jongmyo to Namsan while utilizing the existing structure.
The main point of replanning Sewoon Arcade is not renovating the architectural heritage of the past but asking how the people who live in Seoul would plan the city’s future. Sewoon Arcade should be the prototype of an “Urban Multi-layered Forest” as a green axis. “Layer Ground, Layering Forest” is a manifesto of methodology for creating green areas in the city and a suggestion of a universal supply system of light, water, and soil in architecture. The layered ground will be turned into a forest over 100 years by ecological succession, transitioning from bare ground to a forest. The forest created by applying the food chain of Cheonggyecheon and Namsan is not a simple park but a transplanted ecosystem that connects the environment in the city.