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Yongsan Francoreen HQ / JYA-RCHITECTS

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 06:00:00 +0000

This project involves the major renovation of an old, deteriorated house into a space that serves as a resale shop, repair workshop, and office for Hermes, a luxury brand. The design process began with a fundamental question: What is the essence of a product that is considered a luxury, and why do people purchase such products?

Chrome Company HQ Building / JYA-RCHITECTS

Valeria Silva — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 02:00:00 +0000

Diagonally from COEX, across from the old KEPCO site where Hyundai Motor Company's new headquarters is being built, there is a quiet residential area that seems like a different world. The client wanted to build an office building for the company he operates on a small piece of land measuring about 120 m2 located at the corner of this residential intersection.

Jeju Wollyeong CAVE Villa / JYA-RCHITECTS

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 20:00:00 +0000

When travelers journey to new places and stay in accommodations, they expect extraordinary experiences that are not easily achievable in ordinary spaces or their daily lives. Then, what would be distinct experiences from those rooted in ordinary spaces? Human beings have constantly developed their residential spaces for daily use in a way that integrates and connects the functions of each section. For example, cooking, dining, and living spaces were combined to become an LDK. Accordingly, rooms and bathrooms have evolved somewhat dramatically based on standardized criteria. Rooms are invariably arranged with a focus on south-facing orientation, and bathrooms are designed mainly for functional purposes.

Dots 2 Commercial Building and House / JYA-RCHITECTS

Valeria Silva — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000

The clients had renovated a house several years ago and used it as an office building for a design company. They recently purchased a multiplex housing unit next to it and decided to create housing and small-scale neighborhood living facilities for rent. Having already experienced remodeling before, they were fully aware of the advantages of remodeling and thus wanted to increase efficiency by remodeling the building again if possible. However, considering the recently tightened demolition standards followed by the waste of time and cost, insufficient floor-to-floor height for rent as a neighborhood living facility, and the requirement to demolish the exterior walls to secure minimum parking space, the clients decided that the cost and effort incurred by the remodeling would be greater than the efficiency it may bring. Therefore, we and the clients made a bold move and decided to construct a new building instead.

JYA Home / JYA-RCHITECTS

Hana Abdel — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 01:00:00 +0000

When I started having my own office space in Seoul, South Korea, the first place I began residing was Sungin-dong of Dongdaemun-gu, then through Hapjung-dong and reached Ha Jung-dong of Mapo-gu, having to move everyone for four years. There were several reasons for the moves. I had to find a more affordable place, share the office space with others and needed a bigger space as more people joined. These are common challenges that a typical office experiences. Then, we considered acquiring a space where we could reside stably as we realized the realities of our rent becoming more expensive than the interest we pay to the bank due to the lowered interest rate.

Seongsu WAVE Commercial Building / JYA-RCHITECTS

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Seongsu-dong, which began to slowly change in the early 2000s with the opening of Seoul Forest, has its values in the rediscovery and maintenance of the old neighborhood. To accommodate the growing population of Seoul in the 1980s and 1990s, multi-unit, multi-family households were created to fit as many families as possible. As a result, a three-dimensional composition ranging from the basement to the semi-basement and ground-level was created. On the one hand, it may look crude, but on the other, it makes the horizontal landscape interesting and multi-dimensional.

Fineman & Krassen Headquarters / JYA-RCHITECTS

Hana Abdel — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 20:00:00 +0000

The building was planned as the headquarters of Fineman and krassen, educational enterprises. The two companies, which already have several educational spaces in Seoul and the metropolitan area, thought they needed separate headquarters spaces to support the branches in a stable and efficient manner. In addition, the company aims to provide a new direction in the market as an educational company and provide higher-level education services at the same time. Therefore, how to express such philosophy and goals in architecture was an important point of planning.

Yangsan SOSOSEOWON / JYA-RCHITECTS

Hana Abdel — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 19:00:00 +0000

The owner of the building has long sought to restore sense of community in the area of the village and the region, using coffee as a medium. A long time before the construction was planned, the owner ran a cafe, used it as an ‘open bookstore’, a study room for local children and various lectures and small performances. And at some point, the owner wanted to expand these activities to be more stable, more active, and more diverse, and we planned to build them.

Dots HQ office / JYA-RCHITECTS

Valeria Silva — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 20:00:00 +0000

Yangpyeong-dong, one of the most active urban revitalization areas in recent years, is mostly semi-industrial, with factories that used to focus on steel and manufacturing, and features an aging residential area consisting of multi-family households. In these neighborhoods, Dots, a design company, wanted to remodel an old detached house and use it as its office building.

Cheongsong Childcare Center / JYA-RCHITECTS

Hana Abdel — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 02:00:00 +0000

A childcare center is a space for alienated “children” of a “district.” It is the only space for play and care in a community where the children can go after school. Therefore, it deserves more attention from local residents and should offer better quality of services than other facilities in a district. However, currently, the center does not have a close relationship with the community. What is the community child center? Which children from our district go there? And what do they do there? Most of the community members are not aware about the center.

Low Cost House / JYA-RCHITECTS

Javier Gaete — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 17:00:00 +0000

This was the second “Low Cost House Series” project, sponsored by Korea Child Fund to improve a living environment for low-income families. The house was situated in a small rural village of Jangheung town in southeastern province of Korean peninsula and was a home for a family of parents and five children. It was a very old and shabby building tilted to a side and stood right next to an unused cow house filled with the remains of cow waste attracting all sorts of flies and bugs. The surroundings were filthy, and the smell was appalling. However, the worst part of the house was ‘rats’, which literally occupied the whole building. It was the family who had to avoid the rats and find their own spaces. The rats were unafraid of men, and their exact numbers were never to be known. As such, an open outside toilet without walls was the least problem to the family. To them, this horrible living situation was somewhat regarded as something they had to live by.

Gwangmyeong YMCA Byeopssi School / JYA-RCHITECTS

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 01:00:00 +0000

“When we first decided to build, the thing we were most worried about was that the new school might be too comfortable and that the kids might get too used to being comfortable." The philosophy of Byeopssi School, the way I understand it, is to be an ‘uncomfortable school’.

Kimhae Roastery House / JYA-RCHITECTS

Rayen Sagredo — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 22:00:00 +0000

Our client has prepared for a long time to open a roaster café. While preparing the launch, the client has decided to construct a building that has a café and residence to run the business stably. Thus, the current building site was chosen through a careful decision-making process. The site is easily noticeable from the intersection, and the green areas in two directions function as buffer zones between roads.

Gwanggyo House / JYA-RCHITECTS

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:00:00 +0000

A couple visited the JYA office and shared their wish to build a house on a sunlit ground facing a cozy park in its south. With nice gentle smiles, they naturally displayed modesty and warmth. As to show their affection for people, they dreamed of a house that is ‘open to people’. To them, the house had both ‘internal’ and ‘external’ meanings: a place where their family and relatives get together and share lives as well as a space where their friends and neighbors casually come by and chat together. For that reason, they wanted spaces like open lounge or daecheong, a Korea’s traditional main floored room and wished to capture the characteristics of such open spaces in their new house.

Anmyeondo House / JYA-RCHITECTS

Sabrina Leiva — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 20:00:00 +0000

The owner of the house had been injured from a car accident in his teens.

Sillim-dong Share House / JYA-RCHITECTS

Daniela Cardenas — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:00:00 +0000

Sodam-Sodam is a share house. The very first question we asked ourselves about this project was: “what is the most unique charm of a share house in today’s housing reality?”

Pangyo House / JYA-RCHITECTS

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 20:00:00 +0000

Two friends wanted a house of their own. They bought a land and designed a house together. However, they had different family composition, different lifestyles as well as different ideas on the house.

Dongtan House / JYA-RCHITECTS

Cristian Aguilar — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 21:00:19 +0000

The program for this house for two sisters and their families was relatively clear. They wanted the house in bright tones with a simple exterior design; desired an outdoor space that received good sunlight; and wished to build with wood.