ADAPTIVE RE-USE

Urban Sustainability : Children Green Centre

Tutor: Jaeeok Cho • Autumn 2013 • Studio with Distinction

The proposal is to preserve a historical building with adaptive reuse as part of a wider redevelopment scheme across the area in order to serve the changing needs. The building provides children playing centre in which they play with friends, create their own community and build their dreams.

SITE | URBAN DEVELOPMENT

This area of the site has undergone extensive redevelopment, but the scheme does not seem to have consideration on the area and this listed building. The diagrams above show before and after the redevelopment scheme, left(after) and right(before). The image below is a listed building on the site. Thus, this project mediates between the scale of the existing and neighbouring buildings and contributes to the repair of the city.

URBAN ANALYSIS

As the city has expanded by developing a large scale residential district and its supporting facilities, the old downtown hollowing phenomenon has occurred and inner-city population is getting decreased. However, there are a number of significant listed buildings, built in 1930-50s which is registered as cultural properties and appropriate consideration on this issues needs to be made in a way.

SITE ANALYSIS

A new residential scheme is scheduled to construct on the site and the proposal is completely different from what used to be. According to proposed scheme, the site is located on the focal point of greenery walkway, but due to the railway next to the site, a level of noise might be generated. This listed building has changed its external facade, internal layout and building programs; it has a good condition.

DESIGN CONCEPT | FLOOR + GROUND

Grounds help children to learn movement, to coordinate their arms and legs to move themselves forward, to gain muscle control, to keep their head up while motion and to establish a sense of balance.

DESIGN PROCESS

The diagram above indicates the concept idea and its design process - mainly taking out the indoor elements to provide spatial experience and making a new outdoor floor for offering a wide range of activities, that is how the existing elements dealt with and how the proposed idea was developed with the relationship between the old and the new.

FLOOR PLAN | ATMOSPHERE

“One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations or known things - combinations that may yield new forms of expression, new inventions, new discoveries, and new solutions. It’s exactly what children’s play seems to be about and explains why so many people have come to think that children’s play is so important a part of childhood - and beyond.” by Fred Rogers