Life Lab
Fomenting Informal Economies in Seoul’s Urban Landscape
When visiting the Yeongdeungpo District it is hard to miss the fact that it’s urban landscape behaves in very different ways from that of the western city. The informal nature of commercial urbanism makes a very peculiar use of its connection to the street. The architectural design that is to follow continues this tradition by not only accepting, but exaggerating this condition of the broken and articulated urban edge. By increasing the surface area of that edge we allow this modus operandi to continue to flourish, empowering the small and personal over the big and indifferent. What results then is a hyper-articulated urban experience where your contact with space is both nonlinear and indeterminate.
Collaborators:
Caleb White - Diagrams
