Central Open Spaces in Yeongi-gun, Korea
Green spaces in a governmental and administrative city. Curated as a natural space with stabilizing urban interventions
In 2007 the government of South-Korea decided to build a planned city. Its centre will be left empty for a park. The park PROCESS FIELDS changes the previous relation between the existing rice fields and the river Geum-Gang. The dyke will be relocated which will enlarge the regularly flooded zones. This will produce a multifunctional landscape zone in which cultural and natural processes can come together. The former grid of fields will be preserved as a overall organisation structure. It will allow a flexible non-hierarchical programming of local recreation, agriculture and ecology.
Geum-Gang River
Bojagi, Korean cloth
The Bojagi shows one of the substantial principles in Korean art: the combination of strict geometry and natural form
Pencil and oil crayon on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm
Site plan of the rice fields
Site plan
Park during low water – park during high water
Altitudes and extension:
Proving grounds (green), infrastructure (yellow/red), wetlands (blue)
Park of agro-biological diversity
| Program | Central park with cultural facilities |
| Status | Competition |
| Location | Yeongi-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea |
| Client | Construction Agency (MACC) / Korea Land Corporation (KLC) |
| Team | Imke Woelk und Partner Architects in corporation with Prof. Martin Prominski, Landscape architecture, Hannover |
| Area | 6.982 km2 |
| Services | Program and location analyses, strategic development, artistic concept, technical concept, design planning, visualisation |
| Date | 2007 |
