Column Park | 도심 제조지역 공공미술 공모
Client: City Creation LAB Program: Public Art, Landscape Design Location: Sungsoo-dong, Seoul Team: COL.C, Yunsun Shim Year: 2016
Column Park aesthetically and ecologically improves the harsh environment caused by heavy urban infrastructures such as elevated roadways and piers. Column park uses a variety of local material discarded in near semi-industrial and manufacturing areas; metal scrapped parts, pieces of leather and etc. This contributes to the local identity and saving production costs for the project.
The proposal starts by focusing on where the darkest and dirtiest part in the urban space due to the high volume of passing traffic. The space under the elevated subway lane will be transformed by the piers which support the lane above. The piers will be converted as a vertical garden to get the local community together and to support the space users in an ecological way. Column Park can be connected physically and co-operated programmatically to eco-school, bicycle road, green area, and other public realms which are one of the Seoul City Regeneration Demonstration projects in Ttukseom Station Area.
The place will support a variety of activities that happens in different time zones; day / night and weekday / weekend. It helps to mitigate the heat island phenomenon, purify the air around roads and contribute to ecosystem diversity.