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4 Mar 2017
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KCAP wins international design competition ?Sewoon District #4? in Seoul, Korea
Rotterdam, March 2017 – KCAP Architects&Planners has won the international design competition to redevelop ?Sewoon District #4? area in Seoul, Korea into a sustainable mixed-use area combining urban manufacturing and respecting its cultural heritage. That was announced by the Seoul Metropolitan Government on the 2nd of March 2017.

Flexible, people-oriented design that starts from historic and cultural values
KCAP?s plan proposes an integrated approach for the 280.000 m2 of mixed uses including offices, retail, hotel, entertainment, education and medical facilities, preserving the historical structures and at the same time developing a people-oriented urban design to function as a driving force for stimulating craftsmanship in Seoul.
The strength of the proposal is the subtle integration of the building mass in the surrounding context, the adequate modulation and connection that creates flexible unit combinations to respond to future demands and lasting place making generated through the preservation of historic traces and buildings. Especially, the proposal of the public anchor program in ground and underground floors to enhance and adapt urban ind...