SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Our vision for Ichon Hangang Park over the next generations to come is not a definite park but a “method” to allow diversity and difference, confusion and clarity, highs and lows, density and emptiness, quietness and loudness—materialized in a system with structures. We´re not proposing something that is solely beautiful or splendid in its architecture but we want to establish a place for change and progress that blends in well with the lives of Seoul to imagine and use together.
The proposal aims to bring together groups and programs and connect the park to everyday life. In our proposal the urban development will gradually change from the existing specialized parallel sectors to an intersection; without losing the basic linear infrastructure. Step by step, in each layer (see diagrams), an addition of different factors will intricately entangle with each other with an overriding emphasis on programmatic flexibility with architectural specificity in an urban space geared for Seoul for the next 100 years. The method of layering is to formulate basic tools to give all people an answer to how to invent their own way to use the park, in each layer. The park will accommodate a complex programme and be a place that people can take over and it would not constrain them. It is not realistic to attempt a finished urban space without engaging people along the way and with time.