Gwangju City General Construction Headquarters, Inspection of Progress on Public Building Design Service

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] The Gwangju Metropolitan City Comprehensive Construction Headquarters announced on the 2nd that it recently held a briefing session on the design services for seven public buildings, including the Hanam District Municipal Library, to create a "Beautiful Garden City Gwangju" and checked the progress.

This design service briefing session was promoted as part of the "Clean, Beautiful, and Distinctive City Creation Promotion Plan" announced by Gwangju City in mid-April.

The briefing covered construction projects under the jurisdiction of the Architecture Division of the Comprehensive Construction Headquarters, including the Disabled Persons' Hall, Labor Human Rights Hall, Welfare Center for the Hearing and Speech Impaired, Startup Business Growth Support Center, Disabled Training Facility, Western District Senior Complex Facility, and Hanam District Municipal Library.

At the briefing, the overall contents were reviewed, including ▲ planning the open spaces within the site to become a "beautiful garden" accessible to all citizens ▲ establishing various landscaping plans such as planting trees along building walkways and rooftops ▲ providing healing and resting spaces for building users and residents through pedestrian routes and architectural plans considering building barrier-free (BF) certification and zero energy.

In particular, they examined ▲ readjusting the tree planting plan to create clusters of tree species preferred by building visitors ▲ converting asphalt parking lots into eco-friendly material parking lots ▲ reducing the use of stone and metal finishes that give a hard impression and changing to nature-friendly finishes.

Meanwhile, the Comprehensive Construction Headquarters decided to supplement the direction of the design service promotion to create the "Beautiful Garden City Gwangju," starting with this briefing session.

From next month, a new evaluation item, "Creation of Rest Areas for Citizens (such as resting spots) and Architectural Beauty," will be added to the design competition evaluation criteria announced thereafter, and it will also be presented in the design competition guidelines and design service task manuals to build "Gwangju-style public buildings."

Kim Jongho, head of the Comprehensive Construction Headquarters, said, "We plan to do our best to create public buildings as healing spaces with flowers and trees where people can feel nature and the seasons, avoiding open spaces and landscaping plans that only meet legal standards."

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