Blurring Boundary
BLURRING BOUNDARY
Utaa
ARCHITECTS
Utaa
LOCATION
Seoul, South Korea
CATEGORY
Infrastructure
AREA
90.0 m²
PHOTOGRAPHS
Jin Hyo-suk, Kim Yong-soon
YEAR
2012
Text description provided by architect.
Blurring Boundary, is planned for the University of Seoul campus to communicate and coexist with the city by blurring the boundary between them.
I put a wall the guides the flow of people to pass through the entrance instead of a heavily woven firm gate. This is a part of the effort to restore continuity with the city.
The university’s emblem was expressed on the walls and its floor, and made a continual connection between the floor pattern and a cut on the wall with yellow onyx and Macheon(marble) stone.
This effect naturally causes drivers to slow down as they enter even without an entrance control bar being in place.
