Bathhousing | Korean DMZ Underground Bathhouse
Architectural Design Competition | November 2017 - January 2018
Team: Yiding Adam Liu, Yundong Patrick Yang, Jin-yu George Gu
Skill: Research and analysis, design, hand sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign, Rhinoceros
Background
If the traditional border is a line, then the DMZ is a surface. At four ( 4) kilometers-wide, it is a border territory: a border with its own border; a boundary space; a materialized, geopolitical line separating North and South Korea. It is one of the most heavily militarized and fortified borders in the world, and is representative to the nature of one of the most high-tensioned, ongoing, confiicts in recent history. New questions of border continue to arise in contemporary geopolitics as nations grapple with the security of their borders and current global confiicts. So what can one of the longest-running border confiicts reveal about the nature and potential of borders in general?
