This site is set on a very steep octagonal shape surrounded by roads on all sides, cut off like an island. The dynamic mountaintops of Bukhansan are set up as a relational surrounding context to the design of this residence, an island besieged by nearby various residences and Bukhansan’s mountaintop distance.
Location: Pyeongchang-dong, Jongro-gu, Seoul, South Korea
U S E: Residence
Site Area: 353.92 ㎡
Building Area: 167.88 ㎡
Total Floor Area: 441.69 ㎡
Structure: Reinforced concrete
Status: completed 2013
Materials: Aluminum sheet, Exposed concrete, Lacquer
Architect : HyoMan Kim – IROJE KHM Architects
Team: Kyung Jin Jung, SeungHee Song, SuKyung Jang, JiYeon Kim
Photographer: Sergio Pirrone
Life in Nature in the City Centre
The client required a detached house for the cohabitation of three generations to realize ‘life enveloped by nature’.
Sightseeing on an Architectural Hill
In order to transform the vertical challenge of the stiff slope into a pleasurable sightseeing excursion, I planned to make it into a climbing path for promenade sightseeing by including spatial and visual events along the way, circulating from the low gate to the rooftop.
The harmony of the Crystal Polyhedron in Bukhansan
While attempting to make the most use of setback regulation and efficiency of land-use, the form of the residence became a polyhedral mass following the land shape. This is in harmony with the homogeneous form with the surrounding Bukhansan mountaintops, granting a rationale to origami shape of white petal.
The Infiltration of Nature into a Non-specific Environment
The whole skin of the indoor and outdoor mass except the external wall is buried below natural green. In addition to his, two small courtyards infiltrate the core of the residential mass and they play the role of an invader disturbing its identity as an indoor space. As a result, the dwellers of this residence can enjoy a vague environment, an internalized forest in every corner of the indoor space.
Blooming house
I expect the life of residents to flourish, here forever with nature inside.
