SAMSUNG MEDICAL CENTER, Seoul, 1993

 

Awards

Environmental Design Grand Prize 1995, Korean Minister of Cultural Affairs

 

Scope

Landscape Design and Construction Supervision (on a one year fast track basis)

 

Size

150,000 ㎡

 

Client

Samsung Corporation

 

Samsung Corporation donated this state-of-the-art medical center with the aim to raise the standard of medical services in Korea. The landscape (total site) supports this claim to a better and more caring medical environment. All outdoor places are designed as an extension of the indoor healing environment. Emphasis was given to improving the view from all patient spaces and to providing soft non-threatening arrival experiences for patients under stress. The design was concerned with ease of way-finding, the creation of sense of place, a more cheerful and hotel-like atmosphere for staff, nurses and doctors, outdoor healing and re-habitation places as well as dignified experience of dealing with death and mourning.

 

 

Publication

10 Oikos Projects, Landscape Architecture in Korea, China Architecture and Engineering Publishers, Beijing, 2003, (Chinese)

 

"10 Best Landscape Designs" in: Environment and Landscape Architecture, December 1995

 

 "Garden Making Ⅲ, Landscape for Healing: Samsung Medical Center", Environment and Landscape Architecture, pp30-37, March 1998