A Link_Imageable Plateau

Posing problems on Seoullo highline park, I criticize that ‘hanging garden’ is fragmentary artifact without any means and story-telling that link with urban context. Putting the case that Seoullo is geographical branch outgrowth from Mt, namsan, I extend a glass wall supposed to be fragment of urban elevation, and to have Seoullo have reason for being.

Even though Seoul overpass is recycled to be a park in the air as a response to the paradigm shift according to urbanization and as a solution to the environmental issues, however, such urban renewal results in nothing other than another piece of urban artifacts in perspective of urban ecology. What this Project really aims at is elevating the value and propriety of the overpass park, by linking with the Mt. Namsan, which is presently deserted in the air and alienated from the city context. The concept of design departs from signifying vertically fragmented city elevations and sections into the ecological flow of movement linking nature and the city and various programs. I attempts to add a supplementary object as a topographic branch out of Mt. Namsan, that gathers and extends the fragments of city elevations to be landed on the end of the overpass-park, and to help the reason for the existence of ‘Seoullo 7017’ to be verified. Programmed by a horticultural garden that commemorates the past Namsan Botanical Garden deleted, the study intends to extend the object’s volume vertically and to provide the artificial air park made of cement with a moment to meet the real nature of the mountain. Assuming that this artifact is to be extended by any means to be a mediator that helps the city and nature coordinated, however, not only a new value in the sense of place is to be created, but also a balanced urban ecology is to be achieved.\nAs a result, the study recognized that urban renewal or regeneration intervenes in the existing context to generate a new storytelling through which the urban context is transformed to inherit the essence of history. The study was able to support the reason for being of the Seoullo by complementing the Mt. Namsan and castle wall that has been alienated from the context and the promenade linking , and to verify such a design approach to be not only another attempt to grasp urban ecology but also a strategy to overcome the limitations of fragmentary urban renewal. What signified this research is, therefore, that the link among new society soon coming, nature, and urban psycho-culture is groped for in depth.