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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Extrude in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea by studio_GAONMay 16th, 2015 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: studio_GAON The site is near Han-river in Changwoo-dong, located at the city boundary of Hanam. It was left unused because many decades ago, the road along the river had been widened, making this land end in a weird shape. The land looked like a last piece of round pizza or a cheese cake piece on a neat dish. Because of the form, the land remained empty until we intervened. When we visited the site with the clients, it felt as if the land beckoned us to make use of it. This triangular area was about 123㎡, and after we offset and extruded the shape of the land, it became a triangular prism with 70㎡ of possible building area.  Image Courtesy © Youngchae Park
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 Image Courtesy © Youngchae Park Without any barrier or transitional space, this land sits next to busy traffic passing the Paldangbridge and streams of water heading to Seoul. The building entertains the cars entering the Paldangbridge, but not the people walking down the street. Though we brought the shape of the land to the design of building, it was quite difficult to set up a certain pose under these conditions, constantly exposed to probing eyes and heavy traffic.  Image Courtesy © Youngchae Park Architecture is giving body to the will of earth, as well as a beautiful dream of the land, but the most important factor is to give the gesture to co-exist with the surroundings. But sadly, the context was erased in this very land. To build on an erased context is an unnatural, comparable to drawing a mouth, nose, and eyes on a shapeless mass, but it is a condition that most of the cities have in common.  Image Courtesy © Youngchae Park That is why we punched various square openings on the large flat façade. Then we took the edge off the sharp triangle which the cars would conceptually run into. And we opened the west edge like a fish opening its mouth. To complement the narrow and pouting interior, we designed height of floors higher than usual and cut walls to let light in, while putting waves of wood louvers on the wall to enhance a gentle atmosphere. <Extrude> is a trace of deliberation on the land which context was smudged.  Image Courtesy © Youngchae Park  Image Courtesy © Youngchae Park  Image Courtesy © Youngchae Park  Image Courtesy © Youngchae Park  Image Courtesy © Youngchae Park  Image Courtesy © Youngchae Park  Image Courtesy © Youngchae Park  Image Courtesy © Youngchae Park  Image Courtesy © Youngchae Park  Image Courtesy © Youngchae Park  Image Courtesy © studio_GAON  Image Courtesy © studio_GAON  Image Courtesy © studio_GAON
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