Neglected urban space
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about neglected urban space
Project • By superspace • Masterplans
taksim for all
an old square that has forgotten how to be one, traumatized long before with unintentional wrongdoings; an old park haunted by a ghost of a long-gone barrack, once its trees had the courage standing for their rights. are they going to help each other heal, holding intoa grid behaving as a regenerative terraphy?
Taksim district has had numerous interferences, through the years by the needs and desires of the community and space. every revision in recent years shivered the integrity of the physical space. especially the last move that took almost all the motorized circulation under the ground, although a positive development, erased all the borders, history, and memory of the space. the main problems of the space are the l... More
News • News • 30 Jul 2021
Jong-Am Square in Seoul reinvents neglected urban space beneath an overpass with a spatially dynamic community centre
Due to the rapid economic development of Seoul, areas under critical infrastructure elements such as railways, bridges and overpasses have over the years been built with inadequate attention to the surrounding urban context and environment. As such, these ‘left over’ and neglected spaces often become dumping sites for rubbish or car parking. In 2017, Seoul Metropolitan Government promoted a development plan to expand social infrastructure and local community facilities by making better use of such spaces. Six pilot project sites were selected, including the area underneath the Jongam-dong Overpass. The site now hosts a new community centre and shelter by Simplex Architecture.
Kyungsub Shin
The segmented massing of the new... More