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- Space:
456 m²
Yr:
2023
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Lead Architects:
Min-Ho Kim
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Closed Website – Flats, with all their facilities and infrastructure, are the commonest and environment friendly type of residing in Korea. For individuals who select to dwell in a indifferent home as an alternative of an condo, there have to be sure issues that make them need such a way of life. Terraces the place you possibly can really feel nature at any time, massive open gardens, and attribute exteriors with totally different appears to be like are undoubtedly distinctive sights of homes that you may’t discover in residences. Nevertheless, the truth is that densely packed city planning has resulted in a lot of clustered houses closed on 4 sides, every with its personal privateness, in housing complexes. The identical was true for the topic land. As the location was surrounded by different homes on all 4 sides, the housing situation needs to be delicate not solely to the privateness of the proprietor but additionally to that of neighbors. Within the city context across the website, regardless of the existence of a big inexperienced area close by, it was not possible to take an unhindered view of the pure panorama as a result of homes on the adjoining land. Due to this fact, we supposed to construct a home that mirrored the consumer’s wants whereas defending each their privateness and that of the neighbors and securing the utmost sense of openness within the closed website.
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Land Evaluation – The topic land is likely one of the heaps in a indifferent housing advanced in Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, and is situated on the nook of the block. Thus, two of the 4 sides of the location are going through an 8 m street, and the opposite two sides are adjoining to neighboring homes. Though two sides face the street, there may be already a constructing past the street on the fitting, and the land past the entrance street is at present an empty lot. Nevertheless, as it’s deliberate to construct a indifferent home sooner or later there, it’s virtually as if all 4 sides are blocked by different homes. The entrance street is flat with virtually no stage distinction, however the street on the fitting has a slope with a top distinction of roughly 2 meters. Thus, we deliberate to make the most of this to separate car entry and foot entry.
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Idea – 01. Higher Wall, Decrease Wall – “Methods to open up the residing area and the best way to shut it down?” was an important and tough query that we confronted on this website, which is blocked by buildings on all 4 sides and whose neighbors are delicate to privateness points. This query was an important important theme that guided our planning all through the venture, and ultimately, we decided {that a} constructing centered round a courtyard was inevitably the most suitable choice to guard privateness from the encircling views, that are situated in all instructions like surveillance cameras. Nevertheless, as we did not intend to create a closed area for folks to dwell in slightly than simply to remain for some time, we aimed to unravel the privateness problems with each the shoppers and the neighbors by blocking the view of the environment whereas on the similar time, making a most sense of openness throughout the area.
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Past the closed courtyard-style constructing that surrounds all sides of the location, the architectural factor of the ‘wall’ was used to guard the privateness of the neighbors whereas planning a residential area that meets each the wants of the shoppers who wished a spot to calm down in nature and of their kids who wished to have an unbiased area from their mother and father. Quite than using the wall as an object that’s separate from the constructing and easily blocks the view, our design integrates the wall with the constructing in order that the wall may be felt as one of many architectural parts. Moreover, slightly than only a excessive wall alongside the boundary of the location to dam the view of pedestrians, the wall built-in with the constructing is split right into a decrease wall and an higher wall in keeping with the vertical stage on an architectural scale slightly than a human scale and responds to varied points required at every stage with totally different features.
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The decrease partitions, situated on the basement and floor ground, primarily serve the sensible operate of storage whereas additionally shielding the view from the entrance home. As well as, in addition they function a tenet that guides entry and exit actions within the visually blocked constructing. The diagonal wall encountered when coming into the inside of the location alongside the wall, which extends to the surface, directs the attention to the open area between the gaps of the neighboring homes, relieving the claustrophobic feeling which may be felt in a courtyard-style constructing. The higher wall, consisting of the second ground and an attic, is a key architectural factor that not solely serves the essential operate of blocking the view from the surface but additionally realizes the consumer’s request for privateness between their two kids. The youngsters’s areas, situated on the identical stage however divided by the higher wall, symbolize the ‘Sarang Chae’ (visitor constructing) and the ‘anchor’ (important constructing) of a hanok, a Korean-style home, respectively.
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The son’s room, with all of the views from the room directed on the exterior of the location, is extra open outward, just like the ‘sarangchae’ of a hanok, whereas the daughter’s room, which is situated extra inward, has a extra introverted construction, just like the ‘anchae’ of a hanok, the ladies’s room. The son’s room has a nook window that appears out onto the greenery surrounding the location, whereas the daughter’s room appears to be like out onto the internal courtyard, offering each kids with pure surroundings to get pleasure from from their respective rooms in addition to the totally different orientations, fully blocking out interference from one another’s views, thus fixing the difficulty of privateness. Additionally, when seen from the middle of the constructing, the depth of area created by the overlapping of the higher and decrease partitions maximizes the openness of the courtyard, relieving the claustrophobic feeling which may be felt in a U-shaped structure. Ultimately, the higher and decrease partitions are the very best architectural answer to 2 questions, ‘Methods to shut?’, which is concerning the privateness wants of each the shoppers and neighbors, and ‘Methods to open?’, which is concerning the openness of the courtyard-style constructing.
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02. U-Formed Structure – There are three important explanation why the constructing is about in a “U” form on the location. The calls for of the shoppers embody the safety of privateness from neighbors, a pure leisure area, and an area that can be utilized as a gallery as an alternative of only a residing area. If it have been only a matter of satisfying the wants for nature, there could be many different preparations in addition to the U form. Nevertheless, to create an area the place folks can calm down comfortably with out worrying about views from their environment, a U-shaped structure that blocks the view from neighboring buildings was optimum. As well as, we deliberately deliberate a barely longer hall by a U-shaped structure, which permits us to plan the longest hall in the identical land space, and designed a gallery wall round this hall in order that the area will also be used as a gallery slightly than only a residential area. Given the city context of the location and the wants of the shoppers, the U-shaped structure was probably the most pure means for the constructing to sit down on the location.
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03. Courtyard and Water Area – Positioned on the heart of the constructing with numerous views out there from the within, the courtyard is the primary area that units the general temper of the home, and thus, we wished to present it an identical texture to the architectural language of the home to create a way of unity. The water area chosen after such consideration is one other architectural gesture that responds to the shoppers’ demand to make use of the area as a gallery in addition to a residing area and to the necessity to discover a most sense of openness in a courtyard-style constructing. The water that fills the courtyard displays the environment on the floor, creating one other sense of openness that can’t be discovered within the sky, and the water area is sort of a murals in itself, sitting serenely within the heart of the home, making it really feel like a gallery area despite the fact that it’s a residential area.
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Nevertheless, as a result of a home is a residential area, in any case, the place folks dwell, in consideration of the necessity for a standard yard, not a water area, a big slab was positioned barely decrease within the heart of the courtyard, and a water area was created across the slab, as an alternative of planning your entire courtyard as a water area. Relying on the depth of the water area, the courtyard seems in another way: when the water depth is shallow, it appears to be like like an bizarre yard, however when the water depth is increased than the slab situated on the heart of the courtyard, it’s created as a whole water area. Thus, the depth of the water area may be adjusted as desired in keeping with the consumer’s wants in order that the courtyard can be utilized in a extra various means.
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04. Scaled Façade – Because of the top distinction of the location, the basement ground, which isn’t fully underground, appears like a floor ground to pedestrians, though it’s truly at a basement stage. It’s because the basement stage is uncovered, virtually like one story of the constructing from the entrance avenue. This makes a two-story home appear to be a three-story constructing to pedestrians. This, mixed with the peak of the attic, might have made this constructing a really tall and overbearing constructing that may have been misplaced within the panorama of the neighborhood of indifferent homes. As we wished to create a constructing that understood and revered the context of the location, we labored exhausting to make the constructing match into the encircling panorama and mix in with out standing out. As a way to keep a way of scale as a indifferent home, the constructing wanted to be perceived as a segmented mass slightly than an enormous monolithic mass, and it was not possible to section the mass in any respect, so we tried to make a advantageous adjustment to the sense of scale of the constructing by the facade design. Through the use of purple bricks for the basement and second flooring and grey bricks for the bottom ground in between, the separation of supplies primarily emphasizes the individuality of the mass. Simply the usage of totally different supplies has led to very noticeable outcomes. The mass of the second ground and attic, which protrude barely greater than the primary ground, is each protruding and barely separated from the grey partitions of the primary ground, making it seem to drift past the easy separation of the mass. In consequence, pedestrians don’t understand the constructing as a three-story mass however as a sequence of lots with a scale of 1 or two tales.
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We wished to create a constructing that meets the wants of the shoppers and has a full understanding of the context and situation of the land. It’s a closed website with buildings on all sides. In a situation the place not solely the privateness of the shoppers but additionally that of the neighbors needed to be considered, the wall that we selected was an architectural language that protected the privateness of the shoppers and, on the similar time, didn’t make the neighbors really feel offended by the constructing’s design. The internal and outer areas separated by the wall transcend only a easy division of inside and out of doors and are slightly a context of various scales that exist past the wall, the architectural normal we created. The wall works as a tool to guard the privateness of the neighbors within the city context past the wall and in addition as a tool to guard the privateness of the 2 kids and create a way of depth within the area throughout the architectural scale of the wall. Ultimately, the wall is each an architectural normal that we now have created and an architectural gesture that reads and responds to the wants of every within the context of the totally different scales that exist past the wall.
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