Article source: URBAN PROJECT ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN STUDIO

This project considers the Gaon Lake Park in which the building is located as a significant contextual reference. The large park is sitting in the middle of a huge neighborhood with apartment complexes, two hours from Seoul metropolitan area. This unique type of construction is typical of Korean urban development—building and selling thousands of housing units at one time. Although this type of development contains potential negative side effects for the future, the landscape is more positively designed than the apartment complexes in preserving the natural wetland which is left as the original entity in the park.

Image Courtesy © Kyungsub Shin

• Architects: URBAN PROJECT ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN STUDIO
• Project: Heterojunctional Pavilion
• Location: Paju, Gyeonggi Province, Korea
• Photography: Kyungsub Shin
• Product for Exterior Finish: Rheinzink
• Size: 450m²
• Year of Completion: 2012

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