Recompose the Oval stadium by a multiplicity of scales

The city of Gangneung located in South Korea has been chosen to host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. One year after the end of these Games, the city has to think about the future of these many sports and accommodations infrastructures built for the event. How to reintegrate these existing event structures into the daily life of the inhabitants of Gangneung?

It is a question of finely rethinking a large-scale space (100mx210m) planned for events in a place of everyday life for Koreans: the Jimjilbang. Traditional Jimjilbang offer spaces of bath and saunas but also a variety of activities such as sleeping area, restaurants,video games... This diversity of use allows a social mix, a diversity of spaces and different temporality. Furthermore, as everyone has to wear pyjamas there aren’t social class anymore. From a monofunctional space, it is a matter of creating a treasure trove of spaces, which give back a smaller scale, and intimate for human, by leaning on the existing structure. To preserve the remembrance of the place, the stadium morphology was kept, just as its structure and the framework from 10x10 it create. The strictness of theses framework set a rhythm into the bigness.The speed track was kept as a place of flow and exchange, it is a part of the memory of the stadium old use. Korean people revitalize themselves in locked up spaces, so we wanted to accentuate the interiority by creating a suspended skin. It undulates above the modules and creates a multitude of light ambiances. We wanted to work voluptuous atmospheres that contrast with the structural rigidity, inhabiting a world apart, a timeless space.