Program 'The Campus Valley'
The establishment of a campus center for about 22,000 students.
- academic program: classrooms and library
- sport-term project space, student activity support
- administration
- commercial area, sports and parking area.



Above and below the land previously occupied by Ewha Square and the athletic fi eld the new 'Campus Valley' provides both Ewhaians and prospective female leaders with much-needed space for continuing education and student services. The campus centre is designed to offer a new sense of direction for higher education in the 21st century. It establishes organic relations between the center and surrounding areas of campus as well as between above ground and underground spaces; and will serve to redefi ne access to the campus from the main road Jung Mun.



Flying is the best way to reach the shores of Seoul Ewha University’s new building (founded in 1886, Ewha welcomes 22,000 female students and is ranked as one of the best universities in the world), thought and realised by Dominique Perrault, as a result of an international architecture competition organised in 2003, and inaugurated on April 29th 2008.



A landscape then, more than an architecture work, located in the midst of Seoul’s university area. A campus valley where nature, sport grounds, event locations and educational buildings mix, intermingle and follow one another. A long asphalted strip, delineated at one end by a race track, and, completely surrounded by nature.



Arranged nature where pear trees and topiary reign. Black asphalt, red race track, green nature and finally the white brightness of a valley appears. A valley, which is bravely drawn in the ground, slides down along a gentle slope. At the other end, the slope becomes a huge stairway which can be used as an open air amphitheatre if necessary.




Client: Ewha Campus Center Project T/F
Architect: Dominique Perrault Architecture
Partners: Baum Architects, Seoul
Architectural engineering: Perrault Projets
Structural engineers: VP&Green Ingenerie
Building services: HL-PP Consult
Acoustics: Jean-Paul Lamoureux
Consultants:
Structural engineer: Jeon and Lee Partners
Mechanical engineer: HIMEC
Civil engineer: CG E&C
Landscape: CnK Associates

Dominique Perrault







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