Article source: Kengo Kuma & Associates

Our aim was to create an open and liberated space for learning and communications by integrating the building and the hills around it.

The entire space spreads by forming terraces, which are connected with diagonal rooms for communication named “community voids”, which facilitate lively discussions among people who could take seats in the grand stairs and enjoy panoramic view of the nature.

Image Courtesy © Naver, PLUS 202　LEE JIN HA

• Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates
• Project: CONNECT ONE
• Location: Chuncheon-si, Korea
• Photography: Naver, PLUS 202　LEE JIN HA
• Client: Naver
• Local Architect: dmppartners
• Structural engineers: Oak Structural Design Office
• Mechanical engineers: P.T.Morimura & Associates,LTD
• Site area: Education: 12,614.00m²
• Accommodation / Auditorium: 13,909.00m²
• Building Area: Education: 5,862.53m²
• Accommodation: 3,431.72m²
• Auditorium: 2,458.41m²
• floor area: Education – 16,899.04m²
• Accommodation: 10,032.02m²
• Auditorium: 7,861.68m²
• Stories: Education building – 4 stories, 1 basement
• Accommodation building: 5 stories, 1 basement
• Auditorium building: 4 stories, 1 basement
• Design period: 2010 May – 2012 October
• Construction period: 2012 November – 2014 June

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