SKOGSKYRKOGARDEN - The Woodland Cemetery_ Stockholm study trip

For me, the culture of cemetery parks is very unique and unfamiliar. Because, in Korea, there are just few cemetery parks and the monumental landscape is rare yet. Therefore, visiting Skogskyrkogården was very meaningful experience and impressive to me. I have been fascinated by the solemn and tranquil atmosphere of big scale nature landscape. The harmony of architecture and huge peaceful nature landscape makes mysterious but beautiful atmosphere. I suppose the architectural design of Skogskyrkogården has reasonable limit to respect nature landscape. Skogskyrkogården is designated as a UNESCO's World Heritage site in 1989.

Conceptual Landscape : Paris as a laboratory for the park of the 21st century

For my final landscape studio project, my main concern was making strong concept. I have found strong and successful landscape projects has strong concept and it gives strong meanings to the site.

Landscape journal Topos deals with some conceptual landscape design in their 33rd issue: Intention and Reality. In particular, chapter: 'France: from theory to practice' introduces two French conceptual and theoretical park design. Parc André Citroën and Parc de la Villette demonstrate that a theoretical basis fundamentally influences design.

I was hugely inspired by Bernard Tschumi's cinematographic themes for Parc de la Villette. In 1983 Tschumi won the international competition for the planning of the Parc de la Villette, He designed 'spatial and programmatic sequences' for the park.



Tschumi was in charge of planning, in addition to the design of the follies, and superimposed three ordering systems: the points of the follies, the lines of the paths, and the planes of the sport areas. This network questions the order that is inherent to architecture with a superimposition that attempts to bring together three non-related systems. The process and arbitrary result ignore the basic tenets of architecture throughout history-composition, hierarchy and order. Each follie is based on a cube and deconstructed, according to rules of transformation (repetition, distortion, superimposition, interruption and fragmentation), without any functional considerations.


My final design for mile end park redevelopment has storyline which has five different programmes and sequences depend on the surrounding conditions. Although I was inspired by Tschumi's concpetual approach, however, I added some functions to my desgin. Because I believe 'functions' of urban park landscape are also important for visitors. It was my first try for conceptual approach for park design and was so interesting.

Emotional design

Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain is my favourite landscape design in London becuase this brilliant water feature successfully communicates with visitors.

Diana was the best loved princess in Britain and the fountain is a monument in Hyde Park for her.

I believe good design is offering great experience to user(visitors). Gustafson Poter succeed in evocating Diana's soft character and her ethical activities through using water. The most impressive fact is that the physical elements of fountain design such as smooth shape of the fountain, or materials enable people to move emotionally! I believe it is the power of good design.

Particulary, I suppose the design for peaceful sound from flowing water was best idea to reflect Diana's character. In order to make various kind of water flowing sound, they designed different depth and different width depends on the part of the fountain.




Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain

Location: Hyde Park, London, UK
Completion Year: 2004
Designer: Gustafson Porter