KEPCO Headquarters in Naju, South Korea

December 02, 2010 Category: Commercial Building, Office

The KEPCO Headquarters designed by Haeahn Architecture + H Associates is located in Naju, South Korea. The site strategies in the project challenge the clearly segregated tower / podium / landscape hierarchy which dominates the current office complex typology. The design inverts the normative scheme to create a polycentric, campus-like organisation with dispersed volumes and lively public promenades. The plan opens up in the center of the site, creating a vibrant and open civic space from which one can access all of the public facilities.

In addition to more common sustainable strategies which are incorporated in the overall campus design – including PV panels, wind turbines, geothermal heat exchangers, and water retention & purification facilities – the central tower also features an innovative circulating atrium. The atrium serves a programmatic function – connecting workers between floors with express connections, while also serving as a ‘breathing spine’ for the building, supplying fresh air via stack ventilation, in addition to natural daylight.

KEPCO Headquarters design Architechture PlanKEPCO Headquarters design Architechture Plan

KEPCO Headquarters design by Haeahn Architecture + H AssociatesKEPCO Headquarters design by Haeahn Architecture + H Associates

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