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2 different institutions of education [elementary school & residential arts centre] are situated on 2 oppositional sites [realistic urban & romantic riverside] – a research into the influence of a combination of generating forces towards architectural form.

3rd year undergraduate architecture design studio
»school« being the scheduled subject for this single-semester architecture design studio (from september until december 2010), explored a range of institutions of learning:

• art gallery: a short (but real) project, a two-week design workshop for the alteration and extension of seoul boaninn art-gallery
• an elementary school
• a residential arts centre

two contrasting sites were chosen for the two institutes of education,

• the tight urban plot (occupied by a secondary school to shut down in 2013), and the
• vast riverside (both banks incl. the river.)

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