National Symbolic District in Sejong Administrative City
A civic parliament in dialogue with people and nature
- Location
- S. Korea, Sejong city
- Program
- Government
- Site
- 781,000 ㎡
- GFA
- 841,094 ㎡
- Status
- Design
- Client
- National Agency for Administrative City Construction
- Collaboration
- KCAP Architects&Planners (Netherlands), Bakery Urban Architects (Korea)
The Sejong National Symbolic District is envisioned as the spatial embodiment of Korea’s constitutional principle of popular sovereignty—power belonging to the people. More than a monumental civic space, it is designed as an open democratic platform where citizens, administration, and the legislature are closely connected through participation, transparency, and shared order.
At the heart of the masterplan is the concept of Civic Order—a social force formed through voluntary participation and shared norms rather than control. This principle is expressed through the metaphor of waves of light, symbolizing energy, openness, diffusion, flexibility, and cultural vitality as an urban expression of contemporary Korean democracy.