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Jisan Stone House / PLAN Architects office

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Gwangju, South Korea

An Emergency Housing Complex and a Museum in Helsinki: 7 Unbuilt Projects Submitted by our Readers

This week’s curated selection from our readers’ submissions focuses on some of the essential components of our present-day cities.

Featuring the best-unbuilt architecture, the article highlights adaptive reuse projects that transformed abandoned warehouses and factories, a street design in Luxembourg, a regenerative master plan in Seoul, and an emergency family accommodation to temporarily house those in need. Moreover, the roundup distinguishes a library in South Korea and an extension of a museum in Helsinki, because the cultural aspect is an integral part of our urban environment.

MVRDV Collaborates With School Children to Complete Graphic Public Play Space for Gwangju Folly Festival

MVRDV has collaborated with Korean school children to complete a new permanent urban installation tor the third edition of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation’s Gwangju Folly Festival.

Aimed at exploring how architecture contributes to urban regeneration through both decorative and functional means, the I LOVE STREET was developed through a participatory process that asked students from Seosuk Elementary School to contribute drawings expressing their desires for the street. The end result was a graphic, sensory-stimulating design featuring zones in multitude of materials including grass, fountain, sand, wood, a trampoline and a giant chalk board.

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Floating-Ⅵ / PLAN & HUMAN PLAN Architects office

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Gwangju, South Korea
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  202
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Eagon, RHEIN ZINK

Cosmos Intime / L'EAU design + Kim Dong-jin

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Gwangju Biennale Support Center / IROJE Architects & Planners

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House of San-jo / studio_GAON

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Gwangju, South Korea
  • Architects: studio_GAON: Hyungnam Lim, Eunjoo Roh
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  49
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2011

Asian Culture Complex / UnSangDong Architects + Kim Woo Il

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Courtesy of UnSangDong Architects + Kim Woo Il

In the design proposal for the Asian Culture Complex, UnSangDong Architects + Kim Woo II constitutes a stage that acts as a new container for the culture and everyday events. If the new stage for the city is creating an empty open space out of penetrations pathways and plazas, making the new ‘city stage’ is the same as to conduct an enormous mapping operation with penetrating programs and landscape. They propose the Asian Culture Complex as the earth in between creation and disappearance. The earth that is transformed into fragmented pieces and become urban landscape filled with memories of the site and historical evolution of various spectrums of relationships. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Hye Ro Hun / IROJE KHM Architects

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Gwangju, South Korea