International Idea Competition for Urban Regeneration of Jamsil Sports Comeplex in Seoul, Korea

As a symbolic legacy of the Seoul Olympic Games, 1988, Jamsil Sports Complex has remained with its limited function. On the other hand, it has been separated from its surrounding nature and fast changing urban conditions, also has been neglected from its inhabitants and visitors as well.

This proposal for international competition entry exploits 3 inherent assets of the site by redefining the water edge, by manipulating the topography of riverbanks with the function of flood control, and by reinforcing and squaring the plaza of the historical stadium. Olympic Expressway is undergrounded, and the levees are transformed into undulating and continuing terraced banks and landforms, influenced by layers of the mountains surrounding Seoul; they create a new horizon on the site as a framework of the development. The edge of flood zone becomes riparian as its original condition; the redefined riverbanks provide the underlying structural spine for the design of the waterside. The pier with urban beach and the dock for water sports brings urban life closer to the river.