River Echo - Ferry Terminal

For innumerable generations the man made interventions on the edge of the majestic Han River have isolated its natural beauty from the city, limiting this life giving artery to a mere navigable body of water. In an effort to reconcile the river and the city, we have crafted a proposal focusing on respect of the nature of both.

The main structure of the ferry terminal building, consists of a red iron structure of parallel sheets that creates a stable yet light exoskeleton, echoing naval and natural marine forms. The building lines are an extrapolation of the various contours of the Han River that are then cut and intersected by the projected axis from the city.

The project turns a formerly neglected area of the Yeoui-naru Park into ways to connect the shore of the Han River to the City trough interventions and the creation of the Yeoui-naru Ferry Terminal. The landscape forms a novel geography, an archipelago with organic forms that harmonically intertwines the Han River with the City, creating a new relationship between them, where a third zone is formed by transferring water to firm ground, recovering some of the wilderness of the river.

The islands are intervened to amplify existing situations and introduce new ways of engagement and also recover some forgotten desires of the area citizens; from taking a walk in the forest, getting in touch with the wild, direct contact with the water or simply escaping for the daily city routine, attaching different kinds of vegetation, inspired by traditional Korean gardens.