Multi-Surface Performance Complex in Public Park, Seoul

What is the role of architecture in public parks? How is architecture engaged to address existing infrastructural challenges, enhance user experiences, and support socio-economic vitalities, and how does architecture integrate within landscape dominant interplanetary?

This thesis will test the utility of introducing a landscape-integrated, adaptive superstructure (“Prototype”) to the Yeouido Han River Citizen’s Park in South Korea (“Site”).

The Site was transformed from a large vacant lot into a well-used public park that lacks proper infrastructure and is often filled with litter after public events. As demand for the Site grows, new models of architecture are required to accommodate the resulting pressures on the Site’s limited infrastructure.  

This thesis will also explore how the Prototype could transform the Site by applying concepts of continuous topography, logics of tectonics, interior space, and space underneath that co-relate to form a multi-surface project, all while questioning the City’s infrastructure investment decisions and the sustainability of public spaces.