SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY | Studio Leader : John Hong The urban artifacts of Seoul’s rapid modernization from the 1930s to the 1980s are recently coming of age. As the population of Korea shrinks for the first time in history and the policies of regeneration shift away from the economic version of progress that initially created these structures, we have to ask: How should we define preservation and renovation when applied to these legacy modern spaces from a different cultural, political, and economic context? By recognizing the actual ‘public-private’ partnership forces that will inevitably develop our site, we will explore how seemingly generic regeneration mixed-use programs such as co-working spaces, offices, food and beverage programs, cultural facilities, and hotel can be used as catalysts to generate new forms of collectivity. In particular, the idea of 3rd space will be used to coordinate both extra and inter territorial issues. In light of the former, the site itself has a deep history stemming from the 1930s when Yeungdeungpo was the first industrial area to be developed south of the Han River. The site’s evolution is marked by a rich, if not fragmented, context of transportation infrastructure, shopping malls, residences, historical markets, light-industry, artist lofts, and red-light districts. Its history is a tapestry of sometimes conflicting post-colonial and developmental forces with the Daesun Factory at its epicenter.