Central Park, Masterplan

Design:  Approximately 40 miles south of Seoul, Korea, New Songdo City is being developed on 1,500 acres of reclaimed land.  The 100-acre Central Park sits at the city’s nucleus balancing between traditional and modern, natural and man-made.  The conceptual program is derived from the graduated landscape typologies of the Korean Peninsula:  shoreline, wetland, lowland, upland, valley, and mountain.  Moving from the sea at one end of the park to the foothills at the other, a combination of topographic manipulation and varied planting plans defines each typology, creating distinct senses of place and visual interest throughout the park.  Extensive pedestrian and bicycle thoroughfares link sections of the park to one another and the broader city infrastructure, while the seawater canal cutting through the center of the park provides both transportation via water taxi and scenic focal points throughout the park.

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Role: As a project team member, I aided in the compilation of a full set of construction documents for the park as a whole including coordination with team members and consultants.  In addition, worked on the design development of several areas within the park Masterplan including the park perimeter, children’s garden, therapeutic walk, and stone passage.