The site is located near Uijeongbu Station, once it was the center of Uijeongbu, but is now silent on the side of the dilapidated old town. Around them, aging buildings are densely packed, and cars and people's movements in narrow streets and alleys are rather busy. Adjacent existing buildings were built with customary rules for maximizing the general shape and interior space, and the exterior finishes were made of materials that would have been fashionable in the past.
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We were short of time and budget, but we were full of passion.
This project was to change the unused spaces (Seongbuk Dowon and Seongbuk Art Booster Station) of Seongbuk-dong to exhibition spaces, as part of “Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism-Seongbuk Art Commons”. However, we faced two big hurdles. For the exhibition project conducted by Seongbuk Cultural Foundation, two buildings had to be designed by July and constructed by August and the budget for remodeling was far from enough.
For the design of Seongbuk Dowon, there was an endless discussion on what to leave and add after sharing out the budget for the two buildings. So we had a meeting every day to determine the design direction. According to the estimate for construction afterwards, the evacuation cost and the electronic work cost were ten million won and five million won respectively, while we only had a budget of 80 million won. So we asked a favor of a senior, who is an interior designer and fortunately, he undertook the construction work to keep faith with us. We took charge of construction supervision every day with no pay or reward and occasionally, we did physical labor to make up for the shortage of construction costs. We couldn’t leave the construction site and the office of Seongbuk-dong throughout the summer for nearly 2 months.
Located on a north-west corner plot in a dense residential area near Seoul, W House is for a couple and two teen sons.
While the corner plot allows the house to be more open, it also creates more risk of being exposed to the neighboring houses.
With this conditions, the family’s request was very specific; Privacy. The request went as far as to sacrifice basic requirements for a house, such as ventilation and ample sunlight.
The form, space, and skin of architecture are often determined by general inertia.
Forms have pursued efficiency, sensitivity to space has been overlooked, and the envelope has been a universally reasonable way. The aspects of modern architecture have been customary for a long time, and are already too entrenched to be a product that reflects the culture and social values of the present era.
The ENCHANTE considered accidental use in the extra space created by the inefficiency of form, expected abundance in the inconsistent inner and outer space where the circle is interpenetrated, and expressed the sensibility of architecture as an unarchitectural elements, the pouring art technique worked by architectural officials with their’s own hands.
I hope architecture the ENCHANTE will become a special a shelter and a place.
Guryongpo is a place, which has the legend of falling a dragon out of ten dragons arise from the sea to sky. Since it has rich fishery resources such as whales, crabs, and squids, it became a harbor to plunder under the Japanese colonial era. Japanese House street, where it was made at that time, still exists. One side of Guryongpo harbor is crowded with many small restaurant and pubs but on the other side, relax space such as Ara square is mixed.
The client had run a small restaurant in front of the breakwater since she married 30 years ago. Now, she wanted to make that spot into a small hotel, where is the place to watch the sea. Because of being possessed by that sea view, we stared design under the small budget. We imagined a hideaway place to do nothing but watch the sea view. Not so much design is needed the site, where adjoin the sea. We tried to make a place to feel the sea and listen to the sound of the wave without any artificial obstacles except a single glass.
<STAY B Hotel> is located in the middle of Myeong-dong. If it is a feature, this site is very irregular, and as a result, this exerted a major influence in the building showing an irregular form as well.
There were two main points of this project. The first was to construct a building that does not seem small on a small site, and the second was to design 'protruding windows'. Regarding the former, the distance from the pedestrian passage to the entrance of the first-floor lobby is quite far, unlike the size of the small plot. It creates a feeling as if entering a large hotel.
The client, in his early fifties gentleman running a local business, bought a land near a scenic lakeside in Asan city. When we visited the site with him, tall and handsome pine trees were standing around the lengthy perimeter of the site. It was impressive to feel the dramatic contrast between the horizontal line of the sweeping water in front of the land and the vertical lines formed by the pine trees stretching to the sky.
Located in suburb, customers of ilil coffee store are intrigued by what is on trend even when they are rather hesitant to apply the new trend to their lives. Being surrounded by familiarity can make us feel comfortable, but can be dull; newness can give fresh touch to our lives, but it may provide discomfort. The main theme of this project was to keep the balance between the two and to make the familiar feel unfamiliar and to make the unfamiliar feel familiar.
The priority of this project was to find the essence of things; being able to see what can be created out of the essence regardless of what it was made to be. Designers constantly reexamined their ideas to show customers different perspectives, and this enabled customers to embrace new ideas into their daily lives.
As it being near residential area, bringing in the features of home was key to the design. Familiar factors of home such as the couch of living room, curtains, windows, dinner table, and room with window were brought into the design in a new perspective.
For escaping lazy urban landscape and modern society which is under stressed, once we crossed STELLA bridge which is over the stream where is a boundary of city and this small town, we can meet the stars for living, STELLA FIORE which is 19 town houses for sale.
The Middle Way (Madhyamā-pratipad) is not the kind of enlightenment that comes at the end of suffering, but something that is ‘pleasant from the beginning, the middle and the end.’ Such is the core idea of Buddhism. The story was very fresh to me, having only very flat knowledge of the religion beforehand. The client, who told the tale, asked us to build a temple with the concept of Four Noble Truths (Saseongje) and Noble Eightfold Path (Paljeongdo). The temple is a house of the Buddha who has reached nirvana, and for the religious seeking to reach nirvana.
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