Green Roof / Samoo Architects & Engineers
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Jan 2010
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Samoo Architects and Engineers’ green roof design for Seoul covers a massive 131 acres. The project gives an “eco-upgrade” to the run-down Garak Wholesale Market by inserting an extensive public garden into the newly restored commercial center. The roof becomes a large public park that “mitigates rainwater runoff, insulates the interior spaces, and infuses Seoul’s city center with a breath of fresh air.” The design also includes three market pavilions which contain “eco-tubes”, channels that slice through the entire structure allowing daylight and ventilation to reach lower levels.
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As seen on Inhabitat
yikes!
I agree. Mega projects never turn out all that well in my opinion.
I think it looks quite promising. If they connect it into the city properly and have genuine desire to make that roof space a public area, it’ll a great example of mixed use and land efficiency: huge public park on top of a supposedly daylit, airy series of market halls – what’s not to like? Of course it all comes down to execution, it could turn out to be a great example of more environmentally conscious mixed use shopping space or it could be a monstrously large mega-mall with a bit of green roofing as a fig-leaf.. hopefully the former.
As someone who used to work across the street from Garak market, I can’t even begin to tell you what a stunning reworking of the site this is. It’s a seafood and farmer’s market, but very industrial feeling in a way you might be familiar with from other areas in Asia. I wish them the best of luck, but wow… ambitious.
I have green roof fatigue………..renderings with acres of green roof have become standard procedure yet they are completely meaningless.
Welcome to the LEED era, hope you enjoy your stay.
/end of sarcasm
A good project for the waterproofing contractor!
I like the context!
someone has a case of H1N1 and threw up some bad architecture?
Chaos is still chaos when you wrap it in a green blanket.
very fosters