“Bursting with Fresh Ideas” ... Busan Public Design Competition

Discovered 57 Excellent Designs in This Year's Contest, Utilized to Improve Urban Facility Issues

Busan Public Design Contest General Division Grand Prize Winner 'Unfading Cherry Blossom Road (Jeon Yujin, Lee Kyungmin)' 작품.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Busan City selected "The Unfading Cherry Blossom Road (Jeon Yujin, Lee Kyungmin)" as the grand prize winner in the '2020 Busan City Public Design Contest.'

This public design contest was held to find innovative ideas to improve problems faced by urban facilities through design.

Under the theme "Emptying, Integration, and Open City Busan," the contest aimed to simplify and integrate excessively complex and overlapping urban facilities.

A total of 159 entries were received across all fields including space, facilities, and visuals (▲127 entries from university/general division ▲32 entries from middle/high school division).

Through a judging panel composed of experts such as university professors, 57 entries were finally selected. The selected works by category were ▲40 entries including the grand prize in the university/general division ▲17 entries including the excellence award in the middle/high school division.

The grand prize in the university/general division was awarded to "The Unfading Cherry Blossom Road (Jeon Yujin, Lee Kyungmin)."

The proposal is to install combined benches that are easy to use and increase space utilization on the tree stands along Busan’s cherry blossom roads.

The bench design, inspired by cherry blossoms, received high marks for expressing a beautiful landscape where cherry blossoms can be enjoyed throughout all four seasons.

The excellence award in the middle/high school division went to "Harmony Distance (Son Jihyun)," which designed benches in the shape of intense flames to enable social distancing measures due to COVID-19.

The facility design allows benches to be placed close together normally but can be spaced apart when needed to increase space utilization.

Kim Mingeun, Director of the Architecture and Housing Bureau of Busan City, said, "The excellent designs discovered through the contest will be widely utilized in facility installation projects promoted by Busan City."

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