General Education & Research Complex of Seoul National University

General Education & Research Complex

Area district : Green district 

Function : Educational research 

Site area  : 17,100.09M²

Building area : 8,48852M² 

Total floor area : 52,333.00M² 

Stories : B2, 6FL 

Parking capacity : 247 cars 

Ext. finish : Red brick Precasted concrete panel, THK18 pair glass, THK30.7 joint pair glass 

Design participation : Lee jeong hu, je ong jin hwan, Kim sang won, Kim jeong hui, Song sang veong, Lee in su(HEERIK) + Choi hong yeon, Yun jae hwan, Choi hyun yeong, Yu cheo hwan, Lee hwang hui(DANWOO) 

site-plan of project

• Breath : for Human 

-Place for development of academic study by offering convenient and comfortable environment 

• Breath : with Nature 

-Complex where architecture exists with human by designing various outdoor spaces harmonized with nature 

• Breath : with Complex 

-Place where a central plaza communicate or breathe with different departments 

• Breath in Campus 

-Harmony with neighbor environment around the campus and identity as a general education & research complex 

The goal of the project is to establish the optimum education & research environment keeping up with the development of Seoul National Univerisity, create outdoor spaces as a passage to nature, organize archi-tectural forms and spaces harmonized with the campus and ensure new visual & spacial orders having originality. 

perspective of General Education & Research Complex of Seoul National University

Context :

The site facing a circular road on the north of the site considered access roads from various directions. Accordingly, the access from the circular road was fixed as the main one to be linked with adjacent build-ings and make a visual & spatial connection to the main access road and the existing campus. 

north-elevation

west-elevation

Gate :

A central plaza was arranged in the line of the connection axis from the main access road to the existing campus. Public facilities, regarded as a gate of the campus. were arranged in front of the campus to maximize visual & spatial effects for the complex and make up a new connection axis. 

section 1

section 2

Architectural process : 

Outdoor Space Plan / 

Outdoors spaces were designed by considering the connection of Gwanaksan to the campus boundary in order to adapt themselves to natural geography. organize individual space in each department, extend to each other through the plaza, have their own individuality and induce harmony with the whole campus. • A cluster was a background of the programs in order to design effective and rational floor plans and organize systematical research environment. 

axis

zoning

space-planning

space-planning

• Form Plan 

-Pilots were actively used to harmonize the complex with other buildings. An image as a gate of the complex was emphasized due to the main access road. The complex had a new visual & spatial archiectural form that was harmonized with natural landscape and contained its own originality.

typical floor plan

level 88.92 floor plan

level 100 floor plan