Moon village drawing5/3/2023 ![]() We have worked with Seung on several projects over the years in Korea, including Paju Book City. The Korean architect Seung H-Sang, as Seoul city architect working with the mayor of Seoul, Park Won-soon, has initiated the project and given direction to the brief for the invited architects. Others understand that it will become an important prototype project for future urban redevelopment, particularly in Korea. Some of our architect friends in Seoul think this whole project is nostalgic and unnecessary. ![]() We had to stop ourselves from over-romanticising, and to keep a clear and simple attitude about the design task. There are many types of beauty in the existing settlement, among its messiness and apparent disorder. We first visited this village in October 2013 and we were of course very enthusiastic. The brief demands that roads and alleys are preserved The challenge is to decide what aspects to preserve, and what to take away. The intention of the organisers is to preserve the memory of the existing village in some way, while rebuilding all the houses. What was your initial response to what the Koreans call a ‘moon village’, and how have you gone about the study and recording of its topographical, cultural and social identity?įlorian Beigel and Philip Christou This is a very interesting and unusual design project. Each architect has been asked to design two separate hillside neighbourhoods within the village. James Ragonesi You have been invited, along with 11 other architectural teams, to work on design proposals for rebuilding the last remaining shanty town in Seoul, South Korea, the so-called ‘104 Village’. Each dwelling carries with it the story of its piecemeal construction over time. Florian Beigel and Philip Christou in conversation with CASS graduate James Ragonesi, based on an email correspondence that began in the spring of 2014ġ04 Moon Village, Seoul, was mostly built from the mid-1960s onwards, by its residents, on the lower slopes of the steep hillsides at the north-east edge of the city.
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