Yongin was not chosen by chance for the construction of such an institute: this city is located in the most ecologically safe region of South Korea. Sprawling between wooded hills, the new center will become a place where rare and endangered species of flora and fauna of the Korean Peninsula are preserved. Organically integrated into the landscape, the complex is divided into three zones - research, administrative and resort and hotel zones.
Closest to the entrance to the complex, the architects placed a visitor center, an office block and a quarantine center, where newly arrived plants and animals will be accommodated. All these buildings are grouped around a semicircular square - the main public space of the new center. Such a layout of the entrance area will optimally distribute human flows and help visitors quickly find their way around the imposing territory of the complex.
The resort and hotel part consists of guest houses, in which not only tourists can stay, but also researchers sent to the new center from other organizations in Korea and the world.
The heart of the center will be its own research institute that studies endangered species and ways to preserve them. It is designed from modular elements, which the architects themselves compare to the cells of living organisms. The essence of this metaphor is not only that the complex can be completed and expanded at any time, taking into account the growing collection of plants and animals, but also that each "cell" is designed using innovative energy-saving technologies, which means it is capable of making a new building as “green” and “friendly” as possible in relation to the surrounding nature.
