Architecture and Engineering firm, Tomoon, in collaboration with HAEMA, shared with us their winning competition entry for the New Headquarters for GEPS in Geju, South Korea where the city is a gently sloping area located between the old city and new city in Seogwipo and know to be an international trade base and a city of education. Their future-oriented concept is designed by four directions considering sloping ground, wind, scents and views and territoriality. By using this approach, they create an eco-friendly and energy saving building. More images and architects’ description after the break.
First of all, the design minimizes the amount of cutting of the ground via exploitation of north-south directed on a 7m sloping area, planning to have three-dimensional walking routes and having formation and distribution the mass considering northeasterly wind in the winter. This is considering green tact of lands in the west, Gogeum Mountain in the north, visual axis at Bam island in the south and neighborhood park in the west. In addition, it constitutes exterior spaces where nature and city coexist via rational distribution according to their functions and grades of rank by concentrating cities and parks into the vast ground.
