YANGJUNG HYUNDAI APARTMENTS, Pusan, 1994-1997

 

 

Award

Gold Medal, Most Livable Apartment Complex 1995, Korean Construction Industry 1998

 

Scope  Landscape Design, Site Engineering, Construction Supervision

 

Client

Hyundai Housing Corporation

 

The landscape for this public housing project was created on a very low budget. The design focused on giving a sense of place related to the harbor city of Pusan, as well as on behavioral settings and activity circuits in a large, high-density urban housing complex. The not quite 'civil' engineered grading created 7～20 meter high retaining walls and paved court yard parking. Stepped planters, walls partly opened up by inserting rocks and mosaic tile patterns at eye-level soften the impact of heavy land cut and retaining walls. Some high walls themselves become places for play. Planter walls function as seating. Long continuous activity space connects major community play areas. Each court yard is differentiated by variation of planting and pavement scheme.

 

Publication

10 Oikos Projects, In: Landscape Architecture in Korea,

China Architecture and Engineering Publishers, Beijing, 2003, (Chinese)

 

"Pusan Housing: Site and Landscape Design", in: Environment and Landscape Architecture, 1999/3(Korean)