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The Youl Hwa Dang Publishing House at Paju Book City. East elevation. View of the Youl Hwa Dang Publishing House along Bookmaker Street. infrastructural architectural project at the large scale, just as the table is at the small scale of architecture. Paju is a vague territory at the periphery of the city, a bit eery, attractively enigmatic. It has a certain wilderness, artificial and natural, and one gets the feeling one should tread carefully here and not do too much. Our method involves taking a step back and reading the history of these sites, suspending judgment.’ As seen in plan, Paju has, curiously, the form of a reclining female, possibly in traditional Korean dress, containing within her head folds the ‘built collective memory’ that focuses outward on the wide floodplain of the Han River at the base of the Simhak Mountain, as if she is lying in a meadow: the mountain protects. Part of the narrative here is today based on the valued existence of extensive wetlands. These are now conserved, and run between buildings emphasising the natural coexistence of nature and the man-made – an urban wetland where the reed beds have survived. There are now four long urban structures here, which pick up the traces of the landscape running parallel to the Han River. The Highway Shadow buildings lining the inner side of the Freedom Expressway establish what is, in effect, a long chain of goods yards restricted, as mentioned earlier, to two storeys in height. The four-storey buildings of the publishing houses look across and over the numerous two-storey storage and service units. Thus great care has been taken to preserve and respect the overall texture of the landscape. One cannot imagine such a book city springing up in England, say at Hatfield or Harlow. It is altogether something born of global aspirations, but deeply rooted in the Korean soil. Though it is painstakingly regimented, the city’s life flows calmly like the motion of the celestial bodies and it acquires the inevitability of phenomena not subject to human caprice. In praising Andria’s citizens for their productive industry and their spiritual ease, I was led to say: I can well understand how you, feeling yourselves part of an unchanging heaven, cogs in a meticulous clockwork, take care not to make the slightest change in your city and your habits. Andria is the only city I know where it is best to remain motionless in time. They looked at one another dumbfounded. ‘But why, whoever said such a thing?’ And they led me to visit a suspended street recently opened over a bamboo grove. Italo Calvino 4 In developing Paju, the ethos of the Beigel and Christou team has remained phlegmatically realistic, even optimistic. The time frame is protracted, yet it was crucial to establish the first buildings and define the topology to maintain the principle of a sustainable community. Of fundamental significance in the architects’ philosophy is their interpretation of the Korean idea of ‘emptiness’ as a positive design characteristic, which relates directly to the construct of site/non-site as developed from the l970s onwards that is reenergising landscape thinking today. 4 Notes 1. Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, Martin Secker and Warburg (London), l974. Trans W Weaver. 2. Ibid, p 20. 3. Ibid, p 8. 4. Ibid, p 150. Text © 2007 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Images © Philip Christou: pp 88-9 & 91 photos Philip Christou; p 90 drawing Architecture Research Unit; p 92 photo Daniel Mallo Martinez, February 2000; 93(t) drawing Philip Christou; p 93(b) photo Marion Wenzel, 1985; p 94(tl) drawing Chi Won Park, Architecture Research Unit, 1999; p 94(cl) drawing Architecture Research Unit; p 94(bl) drawing Florian Beigel; pp 94-5(t) © Philip Christou, September 2006; p95(b) drawing by Architecture Research Unit, July 1999; p 96(tl) model Architecture Research Unit; p 96(bl) drawing Florian Beigel, June 1999; p 96(tr) drawing Florian Beigel, May 1999; pp 96(b) & 97 photos Jonathan Lovekin, April 2004 97
City in Suspension New Orleans and the Construction of Ground Underfoot, obscured from view, ground is the most fundamental material of construction and the urban landscape. As New Orleans has proved, we forget it at our peril. Shaped by the mound, the levee and most recently the pump, the ground of the Crescent City was neglected and overlooked even in areas of new development. Felipe Correa describes how, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the thorough re-evaluation of the city’s ground is a prerequisite to urban reorganisation.
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