A kilometer-long department of a disused overpass inwards the pump of Seoul has been converted into an urban plant nursery alongside to a greater extent than than 24 ,000 potted plants , shrubs as well as trees.
The Seoul Station Overpass was built inwards the 1970s to render a vehicular connection from Namdaemun marketplace , the largest traditional marketplace inwards Seoul to the East , across the station surface area to the diverse parks inwards the West. In 2006 , next intensive security inspections , the City of Seoul deemed the 17-meter high construction of the overpass dangerous as well as intended to demolish as well as rebuild it. But later farther consultation alongside residents as well as experts , the urban nub came upwardly alongside a programme to regenerate the overpass into a pedestrian walkway as well as world space. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pattern contest was launched inwards 2015 , as well as a Dutch studio named MVRDV won the project.
The walkway is called Seoullo 7017. Its advert translates to ‘towards Seoul’ as well as ‘Seoul Street’ , piece 7017 marks the overpass’ construction twelvemonth of 1970 , as well as its novel business office every bit a world walkway inwards 2017.
In improver to providing greenish infinite inwards the pump of Seoul , the Skygarden is designed to live on an educational experience.
“Skygarden is an educational arboretum , a plant nursery for time to come species as well as 1 that inwards the time to come volition human activeness every bit a garden which tin extend to other parts of Seoul every bit the plants grow as well as are transferred to novel homes” , says Winy Maas , founding partner of MVRDV. “They are planted inwards containers of dissimilar size as well as top , as well as organized inwards groups of families. The families are ordered according to the Korean alphabet. This leads to surprising spatial compositions”.
The linear commons was designed every bit a collection of small-scale gardens , each 1 alongside its rattling ain composition , perfume , color as well as identity. The landscape volition alter according to the seasons: the vivid colors of leaves inwards tumble of the Aceraceae identify unit of measurement (maples) , the bloom of cherry trees as well as rhododendron inwards throttle , the evergreen conifers trees inwards wintertime as well as shrubs as well as trees bearing fruit inwards summer.
