Bojagi Park, MAC Korea Competition

New Multi-Administrative City (MAC), South Korea l 2007 International Competition

Collaboration Ron Henderson, Tsinghua Urban Planning and Design Institute

Trees (50,000+)

A flock of islands are arrayed across a new shallow lake - the blue and green center of the Administrative City. The park challenges the traditional concept of parks, which isolates nature from the city. The new park is composed of urban-scaled blocks across a wide landscape to assemble a dense, diverse, and dynamic zone for both human and non-human communities - a generator of both culture and nature; of both urban form and ecological form.

The process-oriented design commences with a gravity-flow hydrological system and then develops a framework of stable islands with soft and fluctuating edges that are ecologically dense places for the interaction of diverse species of fish, reptiles, amphibians, and insects with humans and other mammals.

While the outline of the islands remains legible, the edges are dynamic ecosystems - with over 39 linear kilometers of this rich riparian zone in the park. These riparian edges are to be constructed and planted so as to especially enhance the migratory bird population of the region and provide visual and sonorous experiences for the citizens of MAC.