Oryukdo Gawon Restaurant / Jae Heon Jeong

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Text description provided by the architects. The Baekwunpo area in Yongho-dong must have been a beautiful place, with a tranquil atmosphere and starry skies until nature gave way to civilization. As the port was filled up and warships came in, the scenic beauty of the landscape gave way to an ordinary urban look, with big apartment complexes and hillside roads in the background. At first glimpse, it seemed impossible to access the building lot due to the cliff created by the roadwork connecting a large road to the navy base. It was critical to figure out how to secure a ramp in a natural way, while overcoming more than 10 meters of difference in height between the artificial road and the building site, and how to create a topography to buffer the artificial retaining wall on the roadside. It was also important to find away to maintain the continuous flow of the existing shape of the mountain in the back of the building site, as well as the beautiful landscape stretched out in front, while minimizing the volume of the mounding.