Songjeong Picture Book Village Public Facilities
Songjeong Picture book Village is a project to design a plaza, a bus stop and a visitor center in Songjeong Village, a small town in South Korea. It was the beginning of winter when we first visited the village with officials. Although the site was dilapidated with the bare trees and damaged bus stop, the simple houses of 30 families and the old trees made it possible to imagine the beautiful scenery of springtime.
Three sceneries

We looked around the entire village and read three sceneries: “Far away view” a scenery from the village hall, “Nearby view” a scenery when approaching the plaza and “Internal View” a scenery inside the square. How to manipulate those three sceneries would determine the value of the space. I thought it was right to build a place without harming the unique scenery created by the hill-shaped land which seemed to run toward the horizon. Photography by © Yusub Song
One single body

The existing plaza was furnished with shoddy benches and tables made by plywood and concrete and the residents complained of confined space and lack of lighting. We decided to expand the plaza and to combine the dispersed functions that were playing in a crude manner. The land itself would rise up and become benches, stages, a bulletin board and etc. It is like the head, arms and legs grow from one body and function as a whole.
Materials from nature

Based on the design concept of rising ...