Entry for Prime Minister’s Official Residence of Korea in Sejong City, S.Korea by PRAUD + Sunghyun Architects

The site has a strong advantage of having natural topography and scenary. It has been developed as stepped farmland and existing buildings are sitting on the site with in a relation to its topography. It is a very typical siting logic in Korea which puts topographical lines into more important criteria than absolute direction.

Main Entrance

• Architect: PRAUD + Sunghyun Architects
• Name of Project: Entry for Prime Minister’s Official Residence of Korea
• Location: Sejong City, S.Korea
• Landscape Architect: Lee Yoon-joo, Park Kyung-ui
• Site Area: 20,000 m2
• Project Area: 2,975 m2

Main Approach

Like traditional temple in Korea,this siting logic is possible because each building has a small footprint and is able to move its axis freely. Thus, in this project, we first decided to group required programs into four categories so that we can play around those smaller size masses.

Perspective view from sub Entrance

Three masses that are related to public programs are located on lower level and each of them is sitting on the site with its own axis in a relation to the topography. The siting of lower masses make the upper mass, which is a residential program, possible to be free from the topography and follow the direction of the sun, which is more critical issue for residential programs.

Bird's Eye View

This project is also part of the research project “Topology and Typology,” and we developed the idea of “French Fries” as topology and “Structural Pattern” as typology.

Bird's Eye View

Elevation

1st Floor

Master plan

2nd Floor

Section 01

Section 02

Siting Diagram

Structure

Tags: S.Korea, Sejong City

Category: Residential

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