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Lighting

Seoul already pays much attention to lighting within the city, although projects seem to be lucid and playful now, a citywide plan or theme could provide continuity and strong identity. the first example of program for city lighting is alexanderplatz in berlin, where the ccc has been known to do their blinkenlights project:

next up is the SPOTS media facade in berlin, potsdamerplatz:

also on continental europe, rotterdam’s kpn building:

Green-Spaces

here’s a look at singapore. notice its concentration of green space in the heart of the city.

london’s green spaces are also mostly concentrated into key areas.

this differs compared to the cities of muenster and naarden, where green-space becomes a gesture of the former city wall within the urban planning.

this layout provides accessibility to green-spaces by a wider radius of city dwellers. If Seoul would adopt this continental european urban planning trend, It could provide for the city a common cross-section of park-space that links districts with automobile-alternative access. People could bike and walk from district to district within the park ring. An electric tram system or maglev train would be cool too…

Green-space within the city is freed from privileged neighborhoods and becomes accessible by all points of the city. for tourists and locals alike, it would activate the city wall as a monumental geographical feature for way-finding within the inner city.