Suncheon City, New City Hall Design... Created Together with Citizen Design Group

Citizen Participation Design Team Workshop Held

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Suncheon City (Mayor Heo Seok) announced on the 12th that it held a citizen participation design team workshop with architects at the city hall small conference room the day before to directly create the city hall building with the hands of citizens.

This workshop was an opportunity to gather various opinions on the design direction of the new city hall with the citizen participation design team and Proud Architects Co., Ltd., the winning company of the design competition. Fifty participants, including Mayor Heo Seok of Suncheon, architect Nam Jeong-min, and the citizen participation design team (led by Professor Jeong Kyung-seok of Suncheon Jeil University), joined via real-time chat on YouTube.

The event started with Mayor Heo Seok’s greeting and consisted of ▲ explanation of the current status of the new city hall construction, ▲ introduction of the winning design and meeting with the architect, and ▲ design team discussion and free opinion proposals.

During the discussion, the citizen participation design team shared ideas and opinions on the comparative analysis of the basic plan and the winning design, matters to be reflected in future designs, and citizen cultural spaces.

Team leader Jeong Kyung-seok said, “It is very rewarding and meaningful that the basic plan directly created by the citizen participation design team was mostly well reflected in the winning design.” He added, “I hope that forums for citizens’ discussions and sharing will continue to be prepared so that the new city hall, reflecting the unique color of the ecological city Suncheon, will be created.”

The city plans to promote community design activities during the basic and detailed design phases with the citizen participation design team and proceed with the new city hall construction through consultations with citizens via the citizen supervision team during the construction phase.

Mayor Heo Seok of Suncheon said, “I appreciate that the opinions from the citizen participation design team activities have been compiled to establish the basic plan, hold citizen public hearings, and set design competition guidelines, laying the foundation for the new city hall construction for the next 100 years.” He added, “We will do our best to create a new home full of vitality for citizens by connecting the city and ecology, citizens and officials, the old town and the new town, and I look forward to your continued support on this path.”

Meanwhile, Suncheon City plans to complete the design of the new city hall this year, start construction next year, and complete and move in by 2025.

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