Sayuwon公园游客服务中心大门丨韩国大邱丨liveraniandrea

Architects:liveraniandrea

Area:140m²

Year:2025

Photographs:Yongbaek Lee

Category:Visitor Center,Cultural Architecture

Lead Team:Andrea Liverani

Technical Team:Jee Hong Kim

Design Team:liveraniandrea

General Contractor:IL WON Construction

City:Daegu

Country:South Korea

Text description provided by the architects. From the first idea by the chairman Yoo Jaesung in 2013, it is a private park ( from 2020 open to the public) where selected architects, artists, landscaper design are invited to dialogue with the natural landscape. The site covers an area totaling 330,000 m2 and takes about three hours to look around in its entirety. The park includes architecture by Alvaro Siza, Seung h-sang (IROJE), Wook Choi, Matsunobu Kawagishi, and Jung Young-sun ( landscape architect)

The client's request was to design a new gate building for the arboretum. The project includes a parking area with an information center, ticket office, and restroom facilities. The site is located in a narrow valley along the main road.

The project aims to integrate seamlessly with the surrounding landscape, connecting the parking lot and tourist facilities to the arboretum. The building is a sculptural volume with an irregular triangular geometry, nestled into the valley to welcome visitors under a small portico and direct them toward the park.

Exposed concrete is the primary material used, enabling walls and roofs to merge seamlessly into a cohesive form resembling a carved stone. Black metal elements complete the structure, guiding rainwater to the ground.

Over the years, moss and the surrounding pine forest will gradually cover the concrete, transforming the building into an integral part of the park, as though it were a natural stone.

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