Ganghwa County, Yangsa-myeon Community Autonomous Center Construction Project 'On Track'

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Choi Ki-ho] Ganghwa County announced on the 10th that it plans to complete design services for the Yangsa-myeon Community Autonomous Center construction project currently underway by October and begin construction in December.

The Yangsa-myeon Community Autonomous Center will be built with a total project cost of approximately 9.26 billion won in the Gyosan-ri, Yangsa-myeon area, featuring a basement level and three stories above ground. The center will be equipped with multipurpose offices, a book cafe, a fitness room, conference rooms, club rooms, and a grand hall, with an outdoor residents' lounge also to be created.

For this project, Ganghwa County selected the winning design from 47 applicant firms through deliberation by a review committee and held a kick-off meeting on the selected work in May at the second-floor conference room of the Yangsa-myeon Community Autonomous Center, attended by approximately 30 people including the leader of the community autonomous committee, village chiefs, and residents.

At the kick-off meeting, architect Lee Seung-hwan of Crepas Architects presented the project implementation plan and explained the winning design, and a Q&A; session was held to ensure that residents' various needs would be reflected in the architectural design.

For advanced site benchmarking, relevant officials including resident representatives from Yangsa-myeon visited newly constructed administrative welfare centers and community autonomous centers in Ganghwa County's Seorak-myeon in Gyeonggi Province and Gwangtan-myeon in Paju City to identify best practices from local governments and reflect the advantages and disadvantages in the basic design.

Yoon Do-young, acting Ganghwa County governor, stated, "We will pursue this project so that residents of Yangsa-myeon can use the center more easily and conveniently," and added, "Ganghwa County will continue to make efforts to improve residents' cultural welfare and enhance local conditions through the creation of new spaces."