Charge & Play
A multi-layered EV hub where charging meets sport, culture, and nature.
Architecture & Urban Design, 2025
홍형륜 / HYEONGRYOONHONG
From Parking to Playing: The New Urban Node
This project redefines the role of EV charging infrastructure by transforming it into a multi-layered cultural and sports complex. Situated on a fragmented urban slope adjacent to Sadang Interchange—a key mobility node in southern Seoul—the site presents a unique opportunity to reconnect movement, landscape, and leisure.
Rather than treating charging time as passive or transitional, the design activates this idle duration through physical, social, and cultural engagement. Climbing walls integrated into mechanical parking façades, rooftop playgrounds and sports zones, ecological pathways, and a seasonal slope that functions as both a ski ramp in winter and a garden terrace in warmer months—all converge to create a vertically stacked experience of motion and rest.
The EV Node becomes more than a point of energy supply. It is a regenerative urban hinge where electric mobility is no longer isolated from human-scale interaction. Charging decks are connected to cultural galleries and viewing lounges; sports surfaces overlap with pedestrian bridges and green corridors; and the building itself becomes a topographic device that bridges fragmented ecological edges.
Through this hybridization of infrastructure and activity, the project proposes a new typology of urban living—where sustainability is not only a technical system, but also a lived, embodied experience.
It is a place where we move to recharge, and recharge to move.
