KIM Dong-yeong and CHOI Yeong-heon Team, top prize in a world architectural competition with “CITY 2040” project

Potential local landmark design...containing Daegu Law Town Historic Site Development Plan

Top in KEPCO’s Daegu HQ Building Design Competition, too...Domestic and foreign acceptance of major practical capability

[August 18, 2022]

<Students of Faculty of Architecture got the grand prize in “SKYHIVE skyscraper challenge” (From the left, CHOI Yeong-heon and KIM Dong-yeong)>

 Students of YU’s Faculty of Architecture got the grand prize in “SKYHIVE skyscraper challenge,” an international architectural competition.

 The heroes are KIM Dong-yeong (4th Grade) and CHOI Yeong-heon (5th Grade) of Yu’s Faculty of Architecture. The second winner next to YU was found to be a graduate from Department of Architecture of Graduate School of Harvard University.

 “SKYHIVE skyscraper challenge” is being held by Buildner, which holds international architectural competition, for consecutive five years and is a yearly international architectural competition for the newest and best design of symbolic skyscraper. Not only students majoring architecture but also practical professionals of the world participate in the competition and the levels of submitted works are quite high.

 The competition participants should make the concepts of the most advanced towers over the standard. The participants should plan works with integration of not only spaces but also aesthetics, designs, and new technologies and materials. Especially, they should complete works in consideration of economic, social, and cultural elements with establishment of designs and new architectural methods to make innovation of sustainable systems.

 The work of Yu’s Faculty of Architecture which got the grand prize is “CITY 2040 : MICRO CLIMATE CONTROL CENTER.” <Below photo> Their work contains Law Town Historic Site Development Plan for Suseong-gu, Daegu. Current Daegu Law Town is to be moved in 2020’s due to aging and they suggested a method of future use and a development plan to cover the functional loss of an existing downtown.

 KIM Dong-yeong explained their work saying, “CITY 2040 is a spatial project to contain the diversity and flexibility of future cities escaping from current inflexible urban plans. The new skyscraper was constructed by environment-friendly method with minimum development concept and suggested spatial potential to invite new industries to restore contracted industrial foundation. We designed it to be positioned as a local landmark having development potential.”

 CHOI Yeong-hyeon commented, “We intended to suggest a development direction of a central commercial area in addition to preservation of current buildings. We put a flexibly changeable modular integrated culture center in the development plan to preserve current complexes as natural spaces to be freely used by urban citizens and to respond actively to future industries. We intended to make urban ecological work facilities to be used by citizens in two standpoints of natural preservation and urban development focused on sustainable concept and green tech.”

 Meanwhile, the two winners of grand prize had gotten grand prize in KEPCO’s Daegu HQ Building Design Competition for college students, too, which was held last year. At that time, they submitted “Open Frame Office” focused on establishment of relationship with a city by containing functional aspect of office spaces and public spaces and got good assessment.