COREE DU SUD - Seoul City Architectural Ideas Competition : Preparing for the Post COVID-19 Era

The Invisible Facemask

It is now of worldwide interest to re-think how our cities will adapt to a post-COVID-19 era, and take the necessary actions. Understanding that social distancing is of vital importance, our various daily-life spaces will face an inevitable change. Considering the current situation which calls for proper architectural solutions in response to the unprecedented pandemic, The Seoul Metropolitan Government is developing innovative concepts for new built environments, city spaces, and landscapes, able to adapt to this post-coronavirus era. Aligned with this approach, Seoul City has recently held an international Competition for Architectural Ideas in order to prepare for the post-COVID-19 world.[...]

The competition's jury was composed of seven judges, including Spanish architect Daniel Valle, who is currently engaged in extensive activities in Korea and has made some remarkable reflections on the competition results. According to the verdict, "the most appealing proposals were the ones calling for temporary solutions, light interventions, or ideas that provide flexibility for future adaptation acknowledging that the pandemic is a crisis with an expiration date. The Grand Prize proposal is an exemplary design that promotes social distancing by organizing individual spaces separated by areas of vegetation while at the same time it provides the possibility to reconfigure the design after the pandemic is under control. Nature is a moldable material to work with and offers the possibility to transform those small and individual spaces surrounded by vegetation into larger plazas by simply trimming or transplanting plants to other locations within the same park."[...]

***Seoul City Architectural Ideas Competition: Preparing for the Post COVID-19 Era

COREE DU SUD - Seoul City Architectural Ideas Competition : Preparing for the Post COVID-19 Era

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