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Whale Island Café House / Design Lab so S.O Architects

Valeria Silva — Fri, 01 May 2020 19:00:00 +0000

When the client came our office first time, he told us about his plan of second life in Jeju with coffee, music and nature. Jeju Island is the most popular vacation spot in Korea, and the site he chose was located at the western end of the island, where sunset with Cha-gui-do (Whale Island) is visible. For him, the scenery of sunset with the island was the most important thing, so we designed an open trapezoidal building toward the island. Therefore in all indoor spaces, various sizes, proportions and windows of frames allow people to look at the island with different feelings from space to space.

Up Yard House / Architects H2L

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 23:00:00 +0000

Project site was the third land where clients and architects had their heads together. The young couple in their early 30s, who wanted to find joyous inconvenience in their own home away from the agreed uniformity overshadowed by life and convenience in their apartments, took their young daughter's hand and carefully sought the architect. The builder was pleased to assist the couple in the will of the first land where the deal was not made and the third plan was finally settled. The living conditions for a mask apartment are unexpectedly simple. A house where children can play freely without worrying about noise between floors, a house where they can enjoy a life with a yard, and a house where I can make the basis for it, not a framework that matches me.

Gallery Plum and Lake / Architects H2L

Andreas Luco — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 21:00:00 +0000

Maehojae(梅湖齋) is located on a shallow slope behind a mountain that resembles a plum bough in Yangyang, Korea. This area, which is surrounded by a dense pine forest and her herding hermit habitat, was well situated in the gallery house, where she could display and store her collection. Rather, it was a place for architects to think about how to put architecture on top of the rural landscape. The environment here, which is so generous compared to the urban areas where there are so many conflicts of interest in just a few spaces, and the architecture that should be built like a dot on top of it, had to be dealt with in terms of 'ground' rather than 'site'.

Micro Housing K / Architects H2L

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 20:00:00 +0000

Micro housing K is a tiny housing which built on small site(74㎡). After applying for building to land ratio, there was left only 30㎡ for the buildable area. The architect must put essential programs contendingly on the limited area and the process was started from the first encounter with the site of the project. A small site was beside an elementary school and there was an old stationery store that became known as the longest term store in its town nearby. The store was 50 years old building, addition, it was extended thoughtlessly and illegally. The architect had to recall some design methods that can not demolish old memory of alumni of the school and village people. Like any old low rise downtown area in Seoul, his project site had complex relations with adjacent sites and it was a cause of difficulty of removal from the old store. And it had a slight slope on its long edge, so architect had to have a method of application for slope inclined site.