UIA International Competition 2006 : Celebration of Cities - 2

Designed by Kwon-Woong Lim

Industrialization of the city is occurred exactly at the same time when infrastructure is built. Those infrastructures destroy and change the existing city's organization.
But yet there are reasons of the construction in economical and political points of view. I defined it is a necessary evil. It's regarded as negative elements in city when infrastructure used by people for a long time is deserted because of losing efficiency. Moreover, these kinds of state are slums and make a community devide and unbalance.
Unused railroad site in Yonghyun-Dong, Incheon, is the good examples. There are not enough facilities for welfare and education of residents and movement paths of people and cars get tangled in Yonghyun-Dong. So the residents are in dangerous situation.
I realized there are many elements that can be origins of city's regeneration when I observed that site closely. Those are family gardens made by residents and voided space people gather around the unused railroad.
Here, I think I've got to develope the origins ecologically and culturally. I also defined the first keyword is that infrastructures as necessary evil have to be changed to facilities which make residents happy and can be loved by residents.
I applied the simple method which makes movable programs remodeled of deserted freight trains and rails and constructs the pedestrian path using of ecological landscape architecture near the abandoned railroad.
The way that the human beings don't need to get near the programs, but the programs approach the people of itself has advantages to suffice the residents' dissatisfaction and helps to solve the heavy traffic jam. Besides it is good idea for recycling to remodel of deserted freight trains.
The most important thing is finding advantages of the site and then maximizing it, not making something new.
It is the most reasonable way of city's regeneration that infrastructure solves its own problems of itself.
Pond under the railroad releases the hear in the summer and is used to water resident's own garden. The parts of rails and boxes are rotated, and it can be turned to practical use.

* Site plan
- Separating movement path of pedestrians and cars
- Resolving the problems of parking lots in city
- Reducing the reasons of occurrence of movement come from the programs
(-satisfaction of insufficient program)
- Replacing positively of the elements which imply concept of regeneration
(- garden, movement path of pedestrians, voided square)
- Connecting two sides of separated city - ( understanding for balance and harmony)
- Respecting privacy of residents.
- Making pond - Using of water and managing of heat environment
- Promoting of the amenities.
- Making cultural and ecological scenery.

* Unit
- Movement of program boxes by using the photovoltaics.
- Mobile program units remodeled of deserted freight trains - Reasonable cost.
- Making use of variety places by mixing the units.

* Past
- It was used for a industrial railroad.
- Noise and danger caused the slums.
- Destruction of existing city's organization.

* Present
- The use of a pedestrian passage
- The use of a residents' family garden.
- The use of a playground for children.
- The use of a resting place for adults.

* Future
- Separating movement path of pedestrians and cars and assuring parking lots.
- Ecological regeneration.
- Satisfying of insufficient program for movement of units
- Recycling of dumped resources.
- Consideration of privacy of residents and using the family garden positively.
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