Case Study: Ewha Womans University

Ewha Womans University Taroudant University Diego Portales University
Building general photo
Architect(s) Dominique Perrault Architecture Saad El Kabbaj, Driss Kettani, Mohamed Amine Siana Rafael Hevia, Rodrigo Duque Motta, Gabriela Manzi
Location Seoul, South Korea Taroudant, Morocco Santa Clara, Huechuraba, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Area 70000 m2 20511 m2 16644 m2
Project Year 2008 2010 2013
Architecture Type Modern, green, environmental Modern, Vernacular Modern, Brutalist
Main concept/ symbolism Ewha Womans University is a private university in the middle of Seoul, founded in 1886 by the American Christian missionary Mary F Scranton. It’s the world’s largest female educational institute, and its spacious campus sports

A base from a linear succession of horizontal planes that build the courtyards with intensive use, as balconies over the Huechuraba landscape, which house the public programs of the university. In the first stage the base is defined on three squares at different levels, the access square that connects the two buildings of the school, the undergraduate square that connects to future phases, and the graduate square that is directly related to the park. Under these squares, the base houses a cafeteria, the school library and the main auditorium of the university. 2. A large 8-level continuous bar,that looks like Unite d’habitation (For Le Corbusier), but this one appears to be more neutral architecture,and acts as a backdrop against the hill and houses the system of regular classrooms, which require more modular flexibility. For the School of Economics, this building houses undergraduate classrooms which are organized from an exterior corridor overlooking the courtyards of the project, and linked to a series of raised terraces that cross the building with more than one height, serving as spatial relief at the higher levels.
As said before, this building achieves four of Le Corbusier principles; the pilotis, The free designing of the ground plan, The free design of the façade and The horizontal windows, which cuts the façade along its entire length, and lights rooms

They also contain the most iconic programs of each unit, and their diversity gives identity to each part of the campus. At this early stage it houses graduate classrooms and academic offices. The building develops based on a spiral configuration, which links the inclined graduate rooms at half levels, and offices on its upper floors, which organize their circulation around a central light void. Its base is released, leaving a large space that connects and articulates the top program of the building, the hard courtyards, the park, and the territory.
4. Finally, a park is defined on the lower area of the site that is intertwined with the base. It builds a safe distance with the existing urban area, and offers an extensive sports program.
Entrance The building doesn’t have a main entrance. Along the ramp, there are ten entrances to the complex are positioned on different levels. Each entrance is tagged with a number. Elevated with five smooth steps, the entrance is horizonral, the paralel vertical walls confirms the horizontality, also the thin void line frames the signage indirectly. The entrance skyline is ended with a thick horizonral