"Restoring Hope" by Yongwoo Lee 
  

The drawing reimagines a city of Hungnam in North Korea after the Korean War in 1953. The city was burnt to the ground. Everything was destroyed and there was nothing standing worthy of the name, in which North Korean orphans and the community would hope against hope to see their families and lovers once again.

The principal design strategy is to retain the atrocities of the war as a landscape of memory and patience to renew hope as well as to tell stories of the war. Against the inevitability of time, architecture is regarded as a continuous process, existing through time in diverse interpretations, incorporating diverse timescale of transformation and traces. The constructed metaphors take the forms of social architecture with communal benefits and the support of the authoritarian regime, whilst, in the hidden side, architecture expresses their hope, memory and love for their families and lovers.