Seoul pass

Urbanism

Second Prize Winner 

The project transforms an obsolete elevated structure into a pedestrian promenade. The design weaves new platforms, ramps, terraces, and stairways into the existing infrastructure, converting the former route of cars into a sequence of human-scale places. Directly linked to the train station, the intervention fragments the spine into varied levels and framed city views—small plazas, quiet lookouts, intimate green spaces, and active passages that invite lingering and movement. Born from a careful reading of the site’s history and conditions, the project reinterprets the original industrial logic to create accessible connections across the neighborhood. By breaking the continuous ramp into articulated pieces, Seouloverpass offers multiple perspectives on the city and a rich variety of experiences: pause points for social life, elevated routes for circulation, and threshold spaces that stitch the elevated into the ground-level urban fabric. It turns a disused infrastructure into a living, walkable landscape that reconnects the city.
 

Location: Seoul, South Korea
Date: 2015
Restricted competition in collaboration with  Joh Sung-Yong architect