A Design Proposal of Floating Leisure and Culture Facilities in Saemangeum Area

The aim of this study is to propose the floating leisure and culture facilities in Saemanguem area, the southwest part of Korean Peninsula, which has been reclaimed by long seawall (33.9 km) as a national mega project since 1991. The Saemanguem project (409 km2) under reclaiming has land (291 km2, 71%) and lake (118 km2, 29%) together. Smart and green waterfront city of international cooperation area together with industry-research area, agro-bio area, leisure-tourism area, and hinterland city, and other facilities is going to be developed in the area. Existing adjacent city, Gunsan city, has not enough leisure and culture facilities. And near islands in beautiful archipelago (Gogunsangundo islands) have been connected with main land by bridges and visitors have been highly increased for tourism and business. Therefore, development of leisure and culture facilities is needed in Saemanguem area. Considering the advantages of floating architecture such as budget reduction and minimization of environment destruction from the artificial reclaiming, and easy responding to climate change, the required facilities on the lake will be desirable. Inland water space in Saemanguem area is a best place for floating architecture due to calm water surrounded by seawall. And also, differentiated signature building only in Saemanguem Lake could be realized through floating architecture concepts. In this conference, some ideas of architectural plan drawings and images based on floating solution are suggested and discussed.