"Walking Across the Jamsugyo Bridge: 5 Winning Entries Revealed"

Announcement of Winning Designs for Seoul City Planning and Design
Next Year's Designation, Pedestrianization in 2026

Seoul City, which is promoting the full pedestrianization of Jamsu Bridge?the first among the Han River bridges?has unveiled five winning entries from its planning and design competition. Based on these ideas, the city plans to launch a designated design competition next year and complete the full pedestrianization of Jamsu Bridge by 2026.

Ningzhu Wang (Arch Mist)

On the 14th, Seoul City announced that it had selected five final winning works through expert evaluations in each category from a total of 99 submissions to the ‘Jamsu Bridge Full Pedestrianization’ planning and design competition.

Earlier, as part of the ‘Great Han River Project,’ Seoul conducted the planning and design competition related to the full pedestrianization of Jamsu Bridge following the ‘design first, then project planning’ approach for ‘urban and architectural design innovation’ from July 7 to the 30th of last month. The winning entries can be viewed on the ‘Project Seoul’ website.

Transforming Jamsu Bridge into the first pedestrian-only bridge among the Han River bridges is part of Mayor Oh Se-hoon’s core strategy in the ‘Great Han River Project’ to create a ‘Han River that is easy to move around.’ Seoul City judged that Jamsu Bridge has sufficient potential to be transformed into a new type of citizen leisure and cultural space because it is the shortest and lowest bridge among the Han River bridges, making it easily accessible on foot, and because it has a roof and shade from Banpo Bridge while being closest to the Han River’s surface.

Jongdae Park (Narrative Studio)

Seoul City has been conducting public discussions on converting Jamsu Bridge into a pedestrian bridge. The ‘Car-Free Jamsu Bridge Ttubok Ttubok Festival’ held last year and this year was successful, and a survey conducted in November 2022 showed that over 80% of Seoul citizens support the pedestrianization of Jamsu Bridge.

The city stated that the judging focused on selecting creative ideas that could internationally represent Jamsu Bridge as a cultural asset and create a new face for Seoul.

Park Hyeju (Desire space)

The winning entries were submitted by Ningzhu Wang (Arc Mist), Park Jong-dae (Narrative Studio), Park Hye-joo (Desire Space), Christophe Bogle (Cheongbogle), and Yang Sung-gu (Aethership), totaling five works. Each of the selected five teams will receive a reward of 100 million KRW without differentiation.

The competition jury commented, “Given the nature of the planning and design competition, we selected ideas that can develop Jamsu Bridge into a creative and beloved pedestrian bridge of Seoul’s Han River when proceeding with the design competition. We judged that each proposal is distinct and clearly has potential for further development.”

Christoph Vogl(CHEUNGVOGL)

Based on the ideas of the five winning entries, the city plans to establish a project plan and conduct a designated design competition for the selected five teams in the first half of next year to select a priority negotiation candidate for the design service contract. After going through the necessary administrative procedures step by step, the city aims to convert Jamsu Bridge into the Han River’s first pedestrian bridge by the first half of 2026.

Yang Seong-gu (Ethership)

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