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Blue Line Park in Busan
Contemporary South Korean Architectural Development – design by Migliore+Servetto Architects
18 Jan 2019
Blue Line Park Busan
Design: Migliore+Servetto Architects
Blue Line Park, Busan, South Korea
The redevelopment project for a waterfront area running along 5 km of abandoned railway in the city of Busan.

Home to 3,5 million inhabitants, Busan is the second most populous city in South Korea and extends along the south-eastern coast of the peninsula. Studio Migliore+Servetto, which has been active in Japan and Korea for a long time, is currently working on a redevelopment project here that spans an area of 5 kilometres of disused railway overlooking the sea, which will give rise to a themed park called the “Blue Line Park”.
For the design of this vast area – construction of which will begin in 2019 – the architects worked on different narrative levels in order to provide a new waterfront for the city, and at the same time offer visitors a diverse range of activities that will engage users of different ages and interests.

In Migliore+Servetto’s layout, the theme of re-appraising disused spaces is interwoven with that of landscape architecture. On the one hand, the designers took the historical transformations and the local context and territory into account and decided to maintain a link with the long-established charac...