Sponge Park
Seoul, Korea | 2001

The high-rise apartment is the dominant form of residential building in Korea. By reinventing the scaffolding's structure used for construction of the building, Sponge Park provides the relief of outdoor spaces to otherwise tightly organized interior living spaces. This open space is used as personal meditation gardens, family yards, vegetable gardens and small neighborhood spaces connecting individual units with a larger community. As an intersection of modern and ancient, the traditional form of organic inter-connectivity of village life is projected into Sponge Park in vertical representation. The most public program is provided at the most private scale.