SILENT SPRING - BIRD CONCERT, D-Cube City, Seoul, 2011

 

Awards   Korean Grand Prize in Landscape Architecture 2010-2012 (D-Cube City)

                 Urban Land Institute Award 2012 (D-Cube City)

Scope     Environmental Art Concept and Design, Construction Supervision

Client      Daesung Corporation

 

“ … the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong...”

 

Silent Spring (Rachel Carson, 1962)

 

Seoul is a mega city of about 10 Million inhabitants with little space for animals in this city. Birds are more and more disappearing in the city. Korea has 61 endangered bird species of which 13 are facing extinction due to dramatic decrease of their population from natural or artificial threats.

 

In D-Cube City birds have been brought back, as reminder of their endangered family. On colored columns one can find endangered species of Korea as an abstracted image and their name. The project is meant to raise awareness of the unseen loss of birds. Knowing their name means acknowledging their existence.