Participants_ research and design

SAEWOON MARKET 2012\\\\\\


'Preservative Measures'
Eric Reeder + Boris Oicherman


Jeewoon Lee (Assistant) 

MULLAE VILLAGE PROJECTS\\\\\\   


Direction
Eric Reeder
Foreign Assistant Professor of Architecture 
adaptLAB Founder/ Project Leader
GSAKU


Youn-hoan Kim
project space LAB39
director/ collaborator


Kim Kang
project space LAB39
director/ collaborator


Baum-chul Kwon
project space LAB39
director/ collaborator


Jang Chang
project space LAB39
collaborator


Graduate School of Architecture
Konkuk University
Seoul Campus


Spring 2011 design studio


Ga-eun  Kim
GSAKU student


Seung-yeon Lee
GSAKU student


Chang-ho Lee
GSAKU student


Felix Hartz
Frankfurt Inst. of Tech.
German Exchange student


Frank Herzog
Frankfurt Inst. of Tech.
German Exchange student


Ye-sun Kim
GSAKU student


Chang-su Lee
GSAKU student


Ji-young Lee
GSAKU student


Jung-wook Kim
GSAKU student


Summer 2011 workshop participants


Eun-joo Chang
GSAKU student


Hyun-ju Kim
GSAKU student


Min-woo Kang
GSAKU student


Soo-jung Gwon
GSAKU student


Jae-woon Ju
GSAKU student


Jee-woon Lee
GSAKU student


Bo-ram Lee
GSAKU student


Sang-jun Park
GSAKU student


In-suk Yang
GSAKU student

Seoul: paired adaptations

Seoul is a city of doubles; side by side stands 'yesterday' and 'today' caught in struggle and stark contrast. Indifferent, yet 'today' is prevailing to the point of yesterdays extinction. What is now becoming of Seoul, similar to many other globalized cites, is of pervasive homogenization. How has 'today' adapted to 'yesterday'? How is the newly made city connected to where the city came from?  Perhaps it is possible to discover some answers to these questions by way of Mullae-dong's transformation at the hands of its local residents, both of industrial and arts background. 


's e o u l adaptations' is a growing body of work and research directed towards the cultivation of sustaining (and in a way preserving) the aging forms of the city. There is a growing need to consider what history has left, in recognizing there are benefits to maintaining the scales, lifestyles, fabrics of Seoul, that once erased, will be lost forever. This work questions preservation outright, as an exclusive practice, and will continue to seek alternative methods to sustaining the city as a place of collective, diverse and palimpsestial history. 

Introduction: adaptLAB

adaptLAB launched in 2010 as a design research initiative within the Graduate School of Architecture at Konkuk University. The work of adaptLAB is interested in pursuing collaboratively realized projects with input from local communities, artists, and design professionals in order to realize site specific adaptations within the complex urban environment of Seoul. The work of adaptLAB is positioned to promote the enhancement of marginalized urban spaces, as well as places of everyday functional and livable importance to local inhabitants. adaptLAB operates within the idea that current projects can be a mechanism of preservation; as each project stands to bring awareness to place, establish a base of research and design ideas documentation, and foster community value and input in the design of urban places.

Research and speculative design projects are currently underway in Mullae-dong of Seoul's Yeongdongpo industrial district. Design propositions are being made by revolving members of adaptLAB in a collaborative effort with project space LAB39 of the Mullae-dong artist collective. adaptLAB will continue to identify sites throughout Seoul in order to weave public design initiatives with local community interest and necessity. Recently, adaptLAB organized a design ideas exhibition for housing North Korean refugees in Seoul's [Seongsu-dong light industrial neighborhood] and as well will continue to investigate other rapidly transforming industrial city districts as viable grounds for adaptational necessity.