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Seongsan-dong Mix-use / a round architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In old neighborhoods, design begins with thinking about how a building should relate to its predecessors to create continuity in the neighborhood. We analyzed the approach to the old building, the role of the fence and garden, the exterior materials, and the shape of the roof, and metaphorized them to the new building. The first floor is the client's design office, the second and third floors are rental offices, and the fourth and fifth floors are the client's residence.

Sinsa-dong Mix-use Building / a round architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The site is located next to Dosan Park in Gangnam, one of Seoul's most heavily trafficked neighborhoods. As Seoul expanded in the 1960s, the area around the site was laid out in a grid-like urban plan with wide streets and has recently become denser. The site faces a narrow road compared to the surrounding roads, but many people use it.

Samseon-dong Mix-use / a round architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The site bordered by 16m and 4m roads is L-shaped, and the corner of the site is important. The shape of the building is inevitably L-shaped depending on the site, but when viewed together with the existing building on the left side of the site, the design was based on the fact that it can be completed as a square. Although the scale of the buildings is different, the same material, red brick, was used, and the design was conscious of the lines and proportions of the elevation so that the two buildings could be read as a single block.

Yeonam Building / a round architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 03:00:00 +0000

reminder of memory and phenomenon - On first visit to the land, there was a large magnolia tree that had existed in the alley for a long time. In the warm weather, magnolia tree was blooming, and the petals blown by the wind came out to meet us until the entrance to the alley. People passing by in front of the building take a short break under the shade of a tree, and during lunchtime, office workers gather under a tree to talk. Although The magnolia tree itself disappeared, but only the image of the tree was hoped to continue through the past and the present. The freshness of past alleys where trees existed and images of flowers were projected to the elevation of the building to continue the memory in a different way even after that new buildings will be built.

Shinhwa-Ri Housing / a round architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

A curved space and a three-pronged space - Two houses starting from one parcel use the same area, the same cost, the same materials, and the same vocabulary, but the methodology that reveals the characteristics of the space starts differently. Depending on the layout on the site, each building responds differently, but it is developed in different ways depending on the relationship with the road and the surrounding site.

Seoho-dong Residence / a round architects

Andreas Luco — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 21:00:00 +0000

The building is located in Jeju, South Korea's southernmost volcanic island. The building sits on a hillside facing the South Pacific Ocean. The wind coming from vast ocean reaches the island with heavy moisture. Characteristics of Jeju Island are derived from this changeable weather according to the humid air and wind of oceanic climate.

Dance of Light Installation / Naruse Inokuma Architects + a round architects

Andreas Luco — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 03:00:00 +0000

A Meditation of Light in Everyday Life.This work was realized through an international competition held as part of a public art project organized by the city of Seoul in 2016. Next to our site, Noksapyeong Station, is a place that was used for a long period of time as a foreign army base. In 2017, it was publicized that it would be transformed into a park for the people. The renovation of Noksapyeong Station began as a means of enlivening the space together with this park project. We therefore wanted to create a bright, gentle space for meditation in this station that would honor this region’s forthcoming future and hope for peace.

Panpo-ri Residence / a round architects

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 21:00:00 +0000

Climate of Jeju
The earth around the site is flat and firm. Rough sea wind coming from the South Pacific trimmed the earth for a long time into simple and solid shape. The sceneries of Jeju Island have some things in common, but also have their own characteristics according to the region. The site, Panpo-ri, has the largest number of wind turbines, representing the strong wind.

Moonhori Residence / a round architects

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 21:00:00 +0000

The site is located on Yangpyeong North Han riverside and is seated on the field with low mountains in the back. The mountains bring about horizontality of the landscape, thus the building is designed in horizontal and straight form to emphasize the shape of mountains.

Seongsan-dong Mix-use / a round architects

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 20:00:00 +0000

Scale of Village Alley
Construction site is located in old neighborhood in Seoul. Despite the plot-division into collective housing area by urban planning in 60’s, variety of scales coexist and time has been gradually accumulated in the neighborhood. To reach the site, you have to go through various scales of roads; an eight-lane road, four-lane, five-lane, and lastly the closed-end 2m road which is only used by three households. Not only the physical scale, but also the people who use the road and the relationship between them differ from each other. People who pass by barely know about each other even though they live in same district, and furthermore don’t make big effort to recognize their acquaintance. However when it gets to a scale of narrow street, it is not easy to just pass by someone you know. Mutual relationship gets stronger as people keep come across each other and exchange greetings. Narrow and short allies used by few neighbors become privatized, therefore street scenes and space use differ from wide roads. Flowerpots and personal belongings come out to the street and make unique sceneries. The use of the street changes accordingly. Due to these characteristics, Distinction between house and street gets blurred due to these circumstances, and characteristics of the space come to the front.