Archipelago 21

Noel Ortega & Jakob Sieder-Semlitsch

Architects Studio Libeskind

Location Yongsan International Business District, Seoul, South Korea

Client Yongsan Development Co.,Ltd. Program Building Site 56 acres Area 3.000.000 m²

Project Description

The site is organized like an archipelago, broken into distinct neighborhoods called “islands” connected internally by using a retail valley, inviting natural light into below-grade retail spaces. Outside the islands, a generous natural landscape will be developed, to act as the connecting “sea.” With its own unique program, character, community, and atmosphere, each island becomes a distinct neighborhood to encourage diverse and vibrant city living and to break down the overall density and mass of the large urban development.

Source: www.libeskind.com

No-Stop City Plan, Andrea Branzi

No-Stop City is based on the idea that advanced technology could eliminate the need for a centralized modern city. It illustrates a fragment of a elements adapted to a variety of uses.

Residential units and free-form organic shapes representing parks are placed haphazardly over a grid structure, allowing for a large degree of freedom within a regulated system. The proposal questions the normative character of the existing city and defends new conceptions of life as expressed in revolutionary urban form.

Source: Archizoom Associati, No-Stop City

A City Under a Single Roof, Raymond Hood

The proposal is founded on the principle that concentration in a metropolitan area is a desireable condition. The Unit Building, covering three blocks of ground space, would house a whole industry and its auxiliary businesses. Only elevator shafts and stairways reach the street level. The

Source: Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York

Unter den Eichen, Peter Riemann

During a summer school under the supervision of Oswald Mathias Ungers, Peter Rieman made a large number of drawings, sketches and maps. As part of the morphological sequences exhibition, Unter Den Eichen followed the example of Ivan Leonidovs Magnitogorsk in order to come up with a linear city concept.

Source: O.M. Ungers & Rem Koolhaas, The City In The City

Cities within the city, Peter Riemann

In a “green archipelago” a strategy to design the cities decay was devised based on raw, naked value judgements- esthetic, political and social. In a city facing serious depopulation the proposal tries to anticipate which complexes to maintain, which underserving parts to erase, turning the city as a whole into an Arcadian landscape of built remnants surrounded by a sea of green, in which the infrastructures of contemporary life were hidden. Berlin as a colossal enlargement of Schinkel’s Schloss Glienicke.

Source: O.M. Ungers & Rem Koolhaas, The City In The City

Morphology

Plan transformation study from an extraction of O.M. Ungers Green Archipelago into Raymond Hoods idea of a City Under a Single Roof.

Section transformation study from a section of Raymond Hoods City Under A Single Roof into Archizooms No-Stop City.