A strolling house within the coronary heart of the town
Amidst the nice and cozy daylight, the mild breeze, and the chirping of birds, your worries fade away, a minimum of somewhat. Downtown Seoul has many parks, massive and small, the place you possibly can get pleasure from a stroll. Though these parks are set in nature, their which means as a resting place comes alive when they’re seen along with structure. It’s the job of structure to ponder how one can create an area the place individuals can relaxation freely alongside nature, or how one can create an area that totally embraces nature. At present, let’s take a tour of strolling areas that embody architectural considerations to heal members of the town.
The place Time Involves a Halt
#SeonyudoPark #GardenOfTime
The Hangang River, spanning a width of over 1 km, runs by the town middle of Seoul. The parks of the Hangang River situated alongside the riverside are significantly widespread among the many numerous parks in Seoul. It’s because it feeds of the vitality being seated alongside the water. There are as many as 27 bridges that cross the Hangang River that join the north and south areas of city. As you cross considered one of them, the lengthy Yanghwa Bridge, you will discover a secret house hidden by a thick forest surrounding the island. This island that branches off of Yanghwa Bridge is Seonyudo Park, which occupies all the island.
Till 2000, the Seonyudo Park was used as a water purification plant to provide faucet water to Seoul. At present, it has been reborn as an eco-friendly ecological park, however traces of the water purification plant nonetheless stay. The settling pond, which was as soon as used to settle impurities blended within the water, was reborn as a botanical backyard and is now house to numerous aquatic vegetation; and the massive barrel containing wastewater was remodeled right into a play space. Seonyudo Park, which reused the water purification plant that fulfilled its function with out destroying the plant itself, is a museum that accommodates the historical past of the water purification plant and is a very pure park in concord with nature.
Once you stroll alongside the traces of the water purification plant, you encounter the ‘Backyard of Time’ the place time appears to have stopped. This place, which was as soon as a settling pond, is dented and damaged right here and there, and it’s quiet as if unsought by anybody. The tough floor of the bridge, which appears to have preserved the passage of time, and the thick vines; the serene environment created by the daylight shining by the gaps invitations you to get pleasure from a stroll in a mystical temper, not not like a scene in a film.
Tackle 343 Seonyu-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul
Working Hours Each day 06:00 ~ 24:00 KST (Affirmation required for Story of Seonyudo exhibition corridor)
A Walkway alongside Historical past
#NamsanYejangPark #JoseonGovernor #GeneralYuguSite
The Namsan Yejang Park is a geographically open house situated on the street towards Namsan Mountain, however traditionally it was remoted for a very long time. This place was a coaching floor for troopers through the Joseon Dynasty, the residence of the Residency-Basic through the Japanese occupation, and the placement of the Central Intelligence Company, which carried out torture investigations through the navy dictatorship. A spot situated in the midst of downtown Seoul, however not simply accessible prior to now, has now grow to be a park that embraces a painful chapter of Korea’s fashionable and modern historical past.
The Namsan Yejang Park is a park with thick bushes and a hidden, underground house that boasts architectural magnificence. The underground house the place the Yejang Madang and the Lee Hoi-young Memorial Corridor are situated is surrounded by grey concrete partitions, making a static and calm environment. The excessive flooring top and wide-open house make the underground house comparatively much less darkish and stuffy. The lengthy hall main from the Yejang Madang to the Lee Hoi-young Memorial Corridor has an open ceiling, even giving the house a way of openness. One of many pleasures of taking a stroll right here is watching the shadows of bushes swaying within the mild and wind on the outer wall, solid by the daylight coming by the gaps within the constructing.
In contrast to the underground house that’s blocked on all sides, the pure house aboveground is open throughout. Though the scale of the park is comparatively small, the winding path with Namsan Mountain within the background is an effective course for a leisurely stroll. The distinction between the busy automobiles on the principle street adjoining to the park, and the residents taking a stroll highlights the tranquility of the park. Historic areas, resembling Reminiscence 6, which has reproduced the torture chamber of the Central Intelligence Company in a single nook of the park, and the Yugu Website*which has preserved the positioning of the residence of the Japanese Authorities-Basic of Korea as it’s, reveals the time that the park has lived by.
*Stays : Traces of the construction and magnificence of civil engineering prior to now.
Tackle 5-22 Juja-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul
Working Hours Open 24 hours (Affirmation required for Lee Hoi-young Memorial Corridor)
Embraces Sports activities, Tradition and the Arts
#OlympicPark #SculpturePark #ArtGallery&Museum
Created for the 1986 Seoul Asian Video games and the 1988 Seoul Olympic Video games, Olympic Park is provided with a stadium, in addition to numerous sports activities areas for the general public to get pleasure from their leisure time. Assuming the Olympic spirit of world concord, Olympic Park aimed to include not solely sports activities but in addition the humanities, resembling performing arts, in a single house. Thus, Olympic Park turned a strolling house the place you possibly can see, hear, and really feel numerous types of tradition in an unlimited pure house.
As you stroll by Olympic Park, artworks positioned right here and there catch your eye. From massive sculptures which might be related in dimension to neighboring buildings to works which might be shorter than an individual’s top, the number of works created by home and overseas artists from 110 international locations world wide mix in with the landscaping, offering a pleasing stroll. Teams of twos and threes loosen up on their picnic mats unfold out subsequent to the garden sculptures, with a view of colourful issues to see within the artwork park.
Along with the sculpture park with sculptures positioned outdoor, Olympic Park contains different areas to get pleasure from artworks. For instance, Soma Artwork Museum and Hanseong Baekje Museum. With broad glass home windows, Soma Artwork Museum brings the character of the park and out of doors sculptures into the inside house all through the museum. The Hanseong Baekje Museum, which by embodying the earthen fortress of the Baekje Dynasty serves as an observatory and walkway, received the Excellence Award on the 2012 Korean Structure Awards. Taking a stroll in Olympic Park alongside an artwork house with excellent architectural magnificence, you possibly can savor the environment of tradition and artwork.
Tackle 424 Olympic-ro, Songpa-gu, Seoul
Working Hours Each day 05:00 ~ 22:00 KST (Autos can enter and exit each day from 06:00 to 22:00 KST)