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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. Pangyo House in Seongnam, South Korea by JYA-RCHITECTSOctober 5th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: JYA-RCHITECTS Two friends wanted a house of their own. They bought a land and designed a house together. However, they had different family composition, different lifestyles as well as different ideas on the house.  Image Courtesy © Hwang Hyochel
 Image Courtesy © Hwang Hyochel One had his focus on a family of two daughters while the other, staying single, focused on his private spaces. One wanted the space to be bright and open while the other wished it to be subtle and private. One hoped the house to have a variety of spaces amusingly entangled together for the children while the other wanted spaces to be simply arranged and as spacious as possible.  Image Courtesy © Hwang Hyochel  Image Courtesy © Hwang Hyochel Yet, they had a common problem to overcome—a size of a new house could not be larger than the houses they lived at the time. The problem was unavoidable as two different families had to share a land and a house above it. Thus, the families had to first think about and decide on an actual size of all their necessary spaces by looking at floor plans. The process made them think about something fundamental—something that they had never needed to think about when living in ‘ready-made’ houses. It also required them to adapt to the size of spaces in their new house and to shift their mind from living and thinking horizontally to vertically and three dimensionally.  Image Courtesy © Hwang Hyochel  Image Courtesy © Hwang Hyochel As such, the shape of a new house was determined in a way to secure as large area as possible within the limit allowed by local regulations. First, a courtyard that would function as a parking lot was built at the center in order to keep to the building-to-land ratio. Second, a roof that slopes upward from the south to the north following the local daylight regulation created a space for a cozy attic.  Image Courtesy © Hwang Hyochel  Image Courtesy © Hwang Hyochel As a result, the house naturally exposed its bare red skin that was uncovered by the courtyard among hard layers of greish bricks with a somewhat cold but casual feeling.  Image Courtesy © Hwang Hyochel  Image Courtesy © Hwang Hyochel  Image Courtesy © Hwang Hyochel  Image Courtesy © Hwang Hyochel  Image Courtesy © Hwang Hyochel  Image Courtesy © Hwang Hyochel  Image Courtesy © JYA-RCHITECTS  Image Courtesy © JYA-RCHITECTS  Image Courtesy © JYA-RCHITECTS  Image Courtesy © JYA-RCHITECTS  Image Courtesy © JYA-RCHITECTS  Image Courtesy © JYA-RCHITECTS  Image Courtesy © JYA-RCHITECTS
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