The theme of 2021 Seoul biennale of Architecure and Urbanism(SBAU2021) is CROSSROADS, Building the resilient city. CROSSROADS is composed by 5 subjects, which are ‘ABOVE / BELOW, ‘HERITAGE / MODERN, ‘CRAFT / DIGITAL’, ‘NATURAL / ARTIFICIAL’, ‘SAFE / RISK’. SBAU2021 will be implemented at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), Seoul Hall of Urbanism and Architecture (SHUA), and Sewoon Plaza in a variety of projects and exhibitions. Thematic + Cities Exhibition and field projects representing each subtopic will run from September 16 to October 31, 2021 as a medium for delivering the theme of SBAU2021 in pursuit of sustainable urban growth.
We worked on visualizing the organic connectivity of the simultaneous projects in various parts of Seoul, using the main graphic motif of ‘Wind Rose’, which symbolizes the theme of the biennale. Through various colored particles starting in the form of circles, scattered and gathered again, we tried to express the relationship between individual characteristics and collaboration of each member creating the biennial at the same time.