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The Korea International Trade Association(KITA) recently announced its selection of SWA as landscape architect for a major redesign of the public realm at the World Trade Center Seoul—one of Asia’s preeminent convention, shopping, and exhibition venues. Junglim Architecture is local architecture lead for the redevelopment, with Seo-Ahn Landscape Architecture as local landscape architecture lead; Heatherwick Studio has also been commissioned as the architect of a new exhibition hall façade at the center of the complex. Working in close collaboration with each team, SWA will lead the design of a new 36-acre public realm and urban forest enveloping the overall campus.   Along Yeongdong-daero, one of Seoul’s major arteries, SWA’s proposal integrates triple rows of plane trees on a raised platform with adjacent clusters of ginkgo, oaks, maple, and pine, forming a green corridor that connects the World Trade Center Seoul to the planned Gangnam Intermodal Transit Center (GITC), Hyundai Global Business Center (GBC), and Jamsil Sports Complex to the east, and historic Seonjeongneung burial ground to the west. Divided over three interconnected plazas anchored in a central woodland, the plan carefully weaves an estimated 423 canopy trees across the site, cooling the streetscape by up to 4°C—coupled with shade structures, fountains, and misting features during summer; and heated furniture and trellises in winter. Using a predominantly native plant palette and locally quarried stone as landscape materials, SWA’s plan is projected to sequester enough carbon by the mid-2040s to surpass its embodied carbon, capturing an estimated 1,936 tons of atmospheric CO2 in its densely planted forest over its first 60 years of occupancy, according to an initial calculation by Carbon Positive Design. As this is still a conceptual vision, design will be subject to further refinement over months to come. 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/erDvMJxZ

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