Defining Urban Site

In da Vinci's sketch, what lies inside its boundary and what lies outside is unclear, and it applies other sites. Kahn describes Hell's Kitchen in New York as a place where numerous fields of operation converge and each involving different scales of activity while operating at local, metropolitan, regional, national, and global scales through a set of dynamic functions created by fluid interactions between many differentially extensive processes.

Site analysis and representations should construct site knowledge necessary to engage a given condition as a site. Kahn describes Mobile ground as where urban sites are understood as dynamic and provisional spaces, as points of departure to parts unknown rather than places of arrival of fixed address. Site reach measures the extent, range, and level of interactions between a localized place and its urban surroundings. Site construction is a site study process that yields a designed understanding of site through consciously selective viewing.

Seoul is the capital and largest city of South Korea with a population of over 10 million. Seoul is divided into two by the Han River which goes from east to west. 48 % of population is living within 12% of land surrounding Seoul, and Han river occupies 8.6% of all developable land in Seoul and 0% of Korea's population.

A challenge to have a site in Seoul is to integrate architecture and urban morphologies within the context of hyper-density. In hyper-dense conditions, urban architecture tends to be multifunctional. The fundamental morphological elements- room, corridor, and so on- form a part of a building. However, when several different morphologies are combined horizontally and vertically to make one envelope, junctions or buffer spaces are inevitably formed. When these interior junctions are used well, they could become a strategic urban place with unprogrammed interactions.