Design Research: Transforming Urban Landscape - The Example of Dorim Stream, Seoul, South Korea

This paper reports a design experiment that potentially reinstates livable urban landscapes within the catchment area of Dorim Stream, Gwanak-Gu, Seoul, South Korea. A framework for transforming urban landscape is examined by applying landscape urbanism values and the ‘transforming border’ ideology to allow existing programs within neighborhoods to be changed to facilitate new uses and diverse urban programs: landscape as a continuous process. The emphasis is on green infrastructure and dynamic mapping of the programmatic shift over extended time-periods. The configuration and direction of programmatic shift is a direct response to the current disposition of land uses, so that a more optimal and coherent layout might conceptually be achieved. Four specific site designs are also explored although emphasis remains on results that are open-ended and an ongoing process.