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Maison Le Sommet / Chiasmus Partners

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 02:00:00 +0000

In A Pattern Language (1977), Christopher Alexander proposed that residential buildings in cities should be no taller than six stories. Beyond this height, he argued, residents begin to detach from their street culture—not only physically but socially. Urban life becomes abstracted; the tactile and emotional immediacy of the street is lost. In Alexander's view, the vitality of a city is founded on a human scale—a sentiment echoed by Jane Jacobs, who championed the street as a stage for community life and advocated for diverse, walkable neighbourhoods where people live, work, and interact across social thresholds.

Rose Mary Cafe / Chiasmus Partners

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Cafe Rosemary is located next to the Daewang Reservoir in Sangjeok-dong, Seongnam-si. It consists of two buildings of approximately 285㎡ on two floors, and the middle staircase is responsible for crossing the two buildings vertically and horizontally. As can be seen from the location of the stairs, the two buildings were divided by legal regulations, and the flow and connection of space was organically created like a spiral structure of DNA connecting the four spaces on the two floors and the rooftop space on the original two sites. For this purpose, six spaces are connected.

Jinnovation Park / Chiasmus Partners

Valeria Silva — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:00:00 +0000

A “high-tech community in the sky” was created on the site of this former furniture factory. What once was a production space with heavy pollution was transformed into a technological park for the robotics industry, with dozens of high-tech companies and R+D centers.

Areuke Spa / Chiasmus Partners

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 01:00:00 +0000

Hongdae, along with Gangnam, is the most commercially active area in Seoul. An expansive commercial district spans throughout the location with an extensive catalogue of businesses occupying buildings of many types including single- and multi-family houses, shopping complexes, office buildings, mixed-use residential complexes, and galleries, in between streets from every stage of a city’s evolution, from wide main roads to narrow alleyways.

Urban Hamlet / Chiasmus Partners

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 23:00:00 +0000

Located at a newly built residential complex in the southwestern outskirts of Daejeon City, the Urban Hamlet is built for four children and their parents. The design uses a novel approach to the use of form and space by experimenting with the significance of what is private and public in a way that captures the needs and the essence of the modern family.

Wedding Box / Chiasmus Partners

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 03:00:00 +0000

In many cultures, marriage serves as a symbolic display of a society's lifestyle. It is also a rite of passage in which a community gathers to celebrate a transitional moment in a person's life. The space in which it is carried out contains symbols of livelihood (food, clothing and shelter) and facilitates social interaction and participation among guests on equal level as the couple. In Korea, one may also realise the coexistence of eastern and western cultural influences upon noticing that the wedding and bridal receptions and the wedding march, where western attire is used, contrasts starkly with Pyebaek, the traditional ceremony carried out between the couple and the parents. These characteristics reveal the need for resting areas and meeting areas, a bridal waiting room, a lobby, Pyebaek rooms, and space for the wedding banquet.

Vila Calando / Chiasmus Partners

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 20:00:00 +0000

Yanggu, located in the rugged northeastern countryside of South Korea, has a pristine natural landscape, ironically because its closeness to the front lines of the Korean War discourages urban development. It is regions like these that have been attracting the growing number of Koreans who seek reprieve from the pressures of urban life as their society matures into late capitalism. An architectural model befitting the dreams of those that do return to the countryside would not only mean building less floors, providing proximity to the earth for those escaping from urban high rises, but also architectural answers to more essential ways of life that have long been forgotten due to the industrialization and commercialization of the last century.

I Tower / Chiasmus Partners

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 19:00:00 +0000

I Tower is located a few blocks from Gangnam's business district, a symbol of modern Seoul that features a concentration of commerce, corporate and residential areas where one can find many digital design advertisement agencies. These characteristics of the location, and the emerging digital advertising brand's demand for a 'new type of office building', meant that there existed a need to incorporate functional flexibility, efficiency and symbolic significance. To further illustrate the context, the site is located at a block corner and faces a small park to the north, around which there are residential buildings of three to five stories. Facing the park to the north and the business district's high rise buildings to the south, the design needed a balance between not disrupting the neighborhood's public space and forming a part of the urban landscape.
Under these circumstances, the objective of establishing a space for conferences, lectures, events and leisure for 200 employees had to be achieved in a building with a height to width ratio of 2:1.

Diesel Engine Factory / Chiasmus Partners

Cristian Aguilar — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 19:00:14 +0000

A varied group of buildings have been built where once stood a Diesel Engine Factory in Changchun, China. Designed by Beijing & Seoul based architects CHIASMUS, redevelopment of the site focused on the preservation of the existing spatial experience over the actual buildings. The result is a neighborhood that remembers its industrial past through its scale, layout and materials.

Kyung Hee Cyber University ACAPeace Building Renovation / Chiasmus Partners

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This peculiar project is akin to the re-telling of a story, or the re-making of an old B movie. It is as much about architectural language as it is about the creativeness that follows the life-story of the “situational condition” of the site and building.

Le Petit Mont / Chiasmus Partners

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

It is from the desire and will of the owner of this little house, to stand up to nature, that we begin to conceptualize the forms, material and relationship to the site.

The Cellar / Chiasmus Partners

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

On the northern tip of the Bund, within the beautiful and historic garden of WaiTanYuan, a newly constructed brick vaulted wine cellar unravels keys to an un‐paralleled time travel experience.

Exit 45 / Chiasmus Partners

Victoria King — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

"Perched between two giant volumes of the existing building, Exit 45 is akin to a tree house, above the bustling campus activities. With its brilliant red color and striking volume, the project does not try to "blend-in" with the context. Yet, the interior space has the quality of a retreat. Through the filtered light and screened views, the interior feels even more like an "hide-out".

Millenium Theater / Chiasmus Partners

Sebastian J — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Spatial Concept of the China Shijitan Art Center

Forest’s Quintet / Chiasmus Partners

Andrew Rosenberg — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Forest’s quintet was conceived as a viable alternative to urban dwelling. Situated in the beautiful mountain range of Yanggu, it is a group of individual dwelling that collectively form an ideal retreat.

Red Diamond / Chiasmus Partners

Nico Saieh — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Located in the historic DongCheng district of Beijing, the project calls for a conversion of old factory complex into a dance center with a performance hall, a practice hall and a saloon.