The DDP has been designed as a cultural hub at the centre of one of the busiest and most historic districts of the city. It is a place for people of all ages; a catalyst for the instigation and exchange of ideas and a place for new technologies and media to be explored - presenting an everchanging menu of exhibitions and events that feeds the cultural vitality of the city.
The DDP is an architectural landscape that revolves around the ancient city wall and newly discovered cultural artefacts which form the central element of the composition linking the park and plaza together. The fluid design encourages the greatest degree of interaction between the park and the people of Seoul.
The new DDP park is a place for leisure, relaxation and refuge - a green oasis within the busy urban surroundings of Dongdaemun. The design integrates the park and plaza seamlessly as one, blurring the boundary between architecture and nature in a continuous, fluid landscape that connects the city, park and architecture together. Voids and inflections in the park’s surface give visitors glimpses into the innovative world of design below, making the DDP an important link between the city’s contemporary culture, emerging nature and history.
The DDP design is the very specific result of how the context, local culture, programmatic requirements and innovative engineering come together - allowing the architecture, city and landscape to seamlessly combine in both form and spatial experience.
The park is accessible to everyone, with folds and inflections in its surface that welcome and direct visitors through different levels of the interior. The design blurs the boundaries between architecture and urban landscape, solid and void, interior and exterior. It is an architectural landscape where concepts of spatial flow are made real – creating a whole new kind of civic space for the city.
The 86,574 square meter DDP comprises a design museum, library and educational
facilities, whilst the 30,000 square meter park reinterprets the celebrated spatial concepts of traditional Korean garden design: layering, horizontality, blurring relationship between the interior and the exterior – with no single feature dominating the perspective. This approach is further informed by historic local painting traditions that depicting grand visions of the ever-changing aspects of nature.
We congratulate the client’s vision. The DDP design and construction sets many new high standards. DDP is the first public project in Korea to implement advanced 3-dimensional digital construction services that ensure the highest quality and cost controls. These include 3-dimensional Building Information Modelling (BIM) for construction management and engineering coordination, enabling the design process to adapt with the evolving client brief and integrate engineering requirements. These innovations have empowered the team building DDP to control the construction with much greater precision than conventional processes and improve efficiencies. These construction technologies make DDP one of Korea’s most innovative and technological advanced constructions and my gratitude to the city of Seoul is very deep. DDP engages the community in a collective dialogue where many contributions and innovations feed into each other, allowing talents and ideas to flourish. In combination with the city’s exciting public cultural programs, DDP is an important investment in the education and inspiration of future generations; further developing Korea as a center of innovation.
Architect
Zaha Hadid Architects
Design
Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher
Project Leader
Eddie Can Chiu-Fai
Project Manager
Craig Kiner, Charles Walker
Project Team
Kaloyan Erevinov, Martin Self, Hooman Talebi, Carlos S. Martinez, Camiel Weijenberg, Florian Goscheff, Maaike Hawinkels, Aditya Chandra, Andy Chang, Arianna Russo, Ayat Fadaifard, Josias Hamid, Shuojiong Zhang, Natalie Koerner, Jae Yoon Lee, FedericoRossi, John Klein, Chikara Inamura, Alan Lu
Competition Team
Kaloyan Erevinov, Paloma Gormley, Hee Seung Lee, Kelly Lee, Andres Madrid, Deniz Manisali, Kevin McClellan, Claus Voigtmann, Maurits Fennis
Consultants
Structural Engineer, ARUP
M.E.P.F. Services
Engineer
ARUP
Lighting Consultant
ARUP
Acoustics Consultant
ARUP
Landscape Architect
Gross Max
Facade Consultant
Group 5F
Geometry Consultant
Evolute
Quantity Surveyor
Davis Langdon & Everest
Local Architects
Samoo Architects
Local Consultants
Structure
Postech
Mechanical
Samoo Mechanical Consulting (SMC)
Electrical and Telecom
Samoo TEC
Facade
M&C
Civil
Saegil Engineering & Consulting
Landscape
Dong Sim Won
Fire
Korean Fire Protection
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