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From Parasitism to Symbiosis
Beyond Digital
Cheonggye Yuseok
Architectural Prompt
Soft Thresholds
Trace and Tectonics
Framed Landscape
Spatial Reassembly
Aggregated Forms
House of Resonance
Regenerative Landscape
Data Pollution
Negotiations between Plate Tectonics
Exile Retreat
Connection and Separation
Vertical ZEN
Sesim_Inner Cleansing
Resonance Rest Wall
Folded Perception
Topological New York City
T.E.R.R.A
Between Boundaries
Homo Digitus
Edge of Horizon
Deep Layered House
Cheonggye Yuseok
청계유석
- 2025 Cheonggyecheon Public Art Project Winner
- Year : 2025
- Program: Public Design
- Site: Cheonggyecheon , Jung-gu, Seoul
Project Detail:
- in colaboration with
- SS2 Architects
기억과 생태, 도시적 과정으로서의 공공미술
[청계유석]은 서울 청계천에 위치한 공공미술이자 도시적 설치 작업으로, 건축이 생태적 과정과 물질의 변화, 집합적 기억을 통합하는 매개로 작동할 수 있는 가능성을 탐구한다. 이 프로젝트는 청계천을 단순한 경관이 아닌, 산업화의 흔적과 환경 복원, 사회적 서사가 중첩된 ‘도시적 팔림프세스트’로 해석한다.
설계는 돌, 물, 퇴적물과 같은 요소를 고정된 재료가 아닌 능동적인 행위자로 다루며, 침식과 흐름, 축적의 과정을 통해 형태가 시간 속에서 형성되도록 한다. 이를 통해 건축의 영속성 중심 사고를 넘어, 변화와 시간성을 기반으로 하는 설계 방식을 제안한다.
또한 이 프로젝트는 도시 재생의 맥락 속에서 미학적 과시나 기능적 환원에서 벗어나, 생태·역사·공공성이 상호작용하는 ‘통합의 윤리’를 제안한다. 개입은 드러내기보다 드러나게 하며, 숨겨진 인프라와 기억을 드러내어 도시를 다시 인식하게 한다.
결국 이 작업은 건축을 ‘듣는 행위’로 재정의하며, 시간과 물질, 환경과의 관계 속에서 도시와 인간 사이의 지속적으로 변화하는 관계를 만들어낸다.
Memory, Ecology, and Public Art as Urban Process
Cheonggye-Yuseok is a public art and urban installation along Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon Stream, investigating how architecture can operate as a medium that integrates ecological processes, material transformation, and collective memory. Rather than treating the stream as a scenic backdrop, the project approaches it as an urban palimpsest—where industrial history, environmental reconstruction, and social narratives coexist.
The installation engages stone, water, and sediment as active agents, allowing erosion, flow, and accumulation to shape the work over time. In doing so, it challenges architecture’s conventional emphasis on permanence, proposing a temporal and process-based approach in which form emerges through negotiation with environmental conditions.
Positioned within the context of urban regeneration, the project adopts an ethical stance of integration. It resists both aesthetic spectacle and functional reduction, instead framing public art as a spatial mechanism for reflection and dialogue. Through subtle intervention, it reveals hidden infrastructures and embedded memories, transforming the site into a field of shared perception.
Ultimately, Cheonggye-Yuseok redefines architecture as an act of listening—working with time, material, and environment to create a continuously evolving relationship between the city and its inhabitants.
Cheonggye-Yuseok is a public art and urban installation along Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon Stream, investigating how architecture can operate as a medium that integrates ecological processes, material transformation, and collective memory. Rather than treating the stream as a scenic backdrop, the project approaches it as an urban palimpsest—where industrial history, environmental reconstruction, and social narratives coexist.
The installation engages stone, water, and sediment as active agents, allowing erosion, flow, and accumulation to shape the work over time. In doing so, it challenges architecture’s conventional emphasis on permanence, proposing a temporal and process-based approach in which form emerges through negotiation with environmental conditions.
Positioned within the context of urban regeneration, the project adopts an ethical stance of integration. It resists both aesthetic spectacle and functional reduction, instead framing public art as a spatial mechanism for reflection and dialogue. Through subtle intervention, it reveals hidden infrastructures and embedded memories, transforming the site into a field of shared perception.
Ultimately, Cheonggye-Yuseok redefines architecture as an act of listening—working with time, material, and environment to create a continuously evolving relationship between the city and its inhabitants.