Students of the Department of Architecture Won the Grand Prize
in the Planning Division of the 20th Korea Wood Design Awards
▲ (from the left) Sungwoo Park, Jeongyoon Woo, Seungwan Cho
Students of the Department of Architecture Sungwoo Park, Jeongyoon Woo, and Seungwan Cho won the Grand Prize in the planning division of the 20th Korea Wood Design Awards.
Korea Wood Design Awards, established in 2003, has held its 20th contest exhibition this year with the theme of ‘Light and Heavy’.
Students of the Department of Architecture planned and exhibited a high-rise complex cultural business facility with a mixed wooden-concrete structure with TCP units applied to ‘Sadang Station’, where various age groups gather for various purposes. On the low floor, complex cultural facilities such as public libraries are located, providing comfort and relaxation to citizens, and on the high floor, office and business hotels are planned to be built.
Sungwoo Park said, “The low floor and high floor part of the building which has different purpose and function are distinguished by architectural materials, using light wood and heavy concrete. We did not only just distinguish the functions but also considered safety, economic feasibility, and space efficiency aspects when planning.”
This exhibit plan received the Grand Prize (Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Award), highly evaluated for the creativity in the way they employed properties of materials and expression of the main theme ‘Light and Heavy’ in its unique design which they displayed with harmony and balance of wood and concrete.
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