As the Seoul metropolitan city become increasingly dense and the land consumed by privatization, the space for the public realm diminished and become high demand. In this context, the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Jo-Jinman Architects (JJA) conducted a research to find left over spaces within the city for the future public intervention. The outcome was 183 locations underneath the highway overpass spaces which combined size equivalent to 200 football fields. However, the found sites were facing multiple issues, such as segregation from the streetscape, disconnected from the local community and security vulnerability. The chosen site was nearby by a subway station with a generous space in front of the station and surrounded by various urban context, while three different overpass bridges were running over the place.

​

To demonstrate maximum permeability of the site; the project is designed with four different faces with each corresponds to the different context. The East responds to the residential towers and the temple by vegetation slope that leaning away from, while the West responds to the commercial district with an architectural box that accommodate flexible indoor programs. The South faces the subway gateway with a main entrance of the project; whilst the North opens to the public square with a theater seats. Multi-functional book lounge for the neighborhood is main interior program.

​

Also, we have incorporated 5,000 mirror plates acting as a ‘roof’ supported by wild wooden pillars, project various views of the greenery onto the streetscapes while, captures sunlight and reflects it down into the area of vegetation overshadowed by the overpass bridges.