Article source: JOHO Architecture

General Korean Parking lot types filled JukjeonCommercial Area

Parking lot either frankly reveals itself to be a parking lot without any consideration for design or surroundings, or disguises like a commercial facility. However, both cases are not welcomed in a city and ruin the city landscape.

Development districts of New Downtown in Korea that are fully filled with gigantic real estate goods only emphasize the legal maximum floor area ratio. The city identity is represented by the wall-covering signs not the presence of space nor void. The massive box lumps clutter the city with the logic of capitalism that is composed of investment, lease and presale, rather than the respective regional characteristics. This project intended to change the urban landscape through a proposition of a certain symbolically designed icon on a dry city.

South-eastern view (Images Courtesy Sun Namgoong)

• Architect: JeongHoon Lee – JOHO Architecture
• Project name: Herma Parking Building
• Location: 1190, Bo jeong-dong, Kiheung-gu, Yong In, Gyonggi-Do, Korea
• Completion: May, 2010
• Use: Parking Building (20% commercial area of GFA)
• Site area: 853.7 sqm

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