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Seoul Urban Womb is designed as an organic urban womb that intensifies spatially and programmatically the urbanity of the site and the wider area.
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The building consists of a compact rectangular volume that is interrupted by a sequence of voids to create a dynamic network of activities inside the building.
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The main void of the project is defined by the big pixelated plinth and resembles an over-scaled urban living room or lecture theatre for the community of Women and Families of Seoul to exist together in a common three-dimensional network and perform their daily activities within an open platform.
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The project develops a strong direct urban intervention by connecting the train station of the area with the Women Plaza through the new building of the facility.
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This programmatic carpet of connection breaks the rectangular volume of the project and creates a large urban void that can host events and activities.
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A large 5-floors-high urban door opens to enhance the continuity and welcome the fusion between public and private, inside and outside, as well as transition from the urban to the domestic.
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As a result, rather that breaking the program into several smaller volumes, the proposal condenses all of it into a single orthogonal envelope, suggesting efficiency and unity as the future of sustainability both in environmental and social terms. Source by Architects for Urbanity
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- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Architects: Architects for Urbanity
- Project Team: Irgen Salianji, Marina Kounavi, Karolina Szóstkiewicz, Stavria Psomiadi, Antony Laurijsen
- Client: Seoul Metropolitan Government
- Status: Competition Proposal
- Total Area: 20.500 m2
- Parking Spots: 120
- Year: 2016
- Images: Courtesy of Architects for Urbanity
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