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SEUNGBIN LIM

Immersive Resilience

2024
Seoul, South Korea

Category

Architecture
Professional Project |
Fabrication: Systemi:City Lab

The project features a 250m² submerged lounge-like space designed to immerse visitors in a 360-degree natural experience within Ttuksom Han River Park, one of Seoul’s busiest recreational areas.

The three-dimensional naturalistic garden aims to magnify public engagement and offer a serene escape from artificial visual overload, allowing visitors to reconnect with nature. The project aspires to be perceived not as a static artifact, but as a characterful terrain that provides three-dimensional guidance for plants to thrive.

The garden is designed with multi-layered, intimate spaces inspired by the spatial structures and interactions observed in the natural world. These principles are applied on a human scale by incorporating perennials and grasses that exhibit multi-year variations, changing in colors, textures, and structures.

Manufacturing Process - Given the inherently limited budget of public projects in South Korea, we actively utilized computational design to improve the buildability of the irregular forms. Curves were meticulously optimized and segmented using computing to minimize material wastage within the confines of standard metal sheet sizes. Approximately 400 bespoke metal units were managed with individual part IDs and were cut to fit custom joints, allowing for easy assembly and welding in a factory environment. Prefabricated in 5-meter lengths for efficient transportation, our approach minimized on-site labor requirements. Through these integrated technological endeavours, we were able to complete the unprecedented project within the confines of the project's limited budget.

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