Neutinamu Youth Center, Yeonsu-gu Development, South Korea, Concept Architecture Project Images
Neutinamu Youth Center in Yeonsu-gu
18 Apr, 2022
Architects: Matteo Cainer Architects
Location: Yeonsu-gu, South Korea

Images: MCA / Liraat
Neutinamu Youth Center, South Korea
If today?s youth is the future, then the new Yeonsu-gu Youth Centre is conceived as a safe social incubator for our teenagers, a place to inspire, motivate and stimulate through playful, educational, cultural and creative activities. Designed as a dynamic and flexible centre, it will assist and train adolescents to develop the tools and skills necessary to address the future, while connecting and engaging with the city and the surrounding community. Through its eco-friendly ?mass timber? architecture and ?floating gardens? it will promote and encourage new lines of thinking for a more ecological and sustainable future, establishing itself as a leading youth organization endorsing ethical and forward-thinking design.
The concept for the Youth Centre germinates not only from the idea that youth is like a tree that grows, but specifically from one of the strong symbols of Yeonsu-gu, the Zelkova Serrata tree (????neutinamu), which symbolizes health. As a result, Neutinamu reinterprets this idea of a tree as ?climbable? timber architecture reaching for the sky, symbolizing the growing youth and hosting in its framework various training and self-development activities for teenagers, as well as multiple gardens...