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AFER Hangang / Hyunjoon Yoo + Partners

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:00:00 +0000

The site of this project had complex and stringent constraints. Due to various regulations, it was not possible to freely shape the building form, and among these, the most restrictive condition was the setback regulation. As a result, the building naturally recedes as it rises, creating terraces along the way. We considered this a good excuse to persuade the client to create an apartment with terraces. In Korea, balconies are generally assumed to be enclosed and incorporated into the interior space. However, the terraces resulting from the setback regulation are unavoidable.

DADAM Commercial and Office Building / A'DUS [Architectural Designer Cluster]

Hana Abdel — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu is home to huge and diverse modern buildings. ‘Dadam’ subtly reveals its presence among these. Dadam Building embodies the owner’s wish to ‘contain all hopes and wishes.’ We wanted to incorporate Dadam's identity and value so that its meaning can be found in the building.

Collective Mirror Office Building / S.E.E.D haus

Hana Abdel — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 19:00:00 +0000

Collective Mirror - Supermarket Creative is the name of the advertising company that commissioned us to design this office project. The four young partners founded their own business and named it so as a reflection of their commitment to accommodating any requests from clients in a multifaceted manner. They also aim to be flexible and accessible in what they do and where clients can find what they seek. They requested that we design their first office building in a way that reflects this approach. The project began with the question of designing an office that is, in essence, a supermarket.

Beyond Red: Architecture With Gray and Black Bricks

Eduardo Souza — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Pink Floyd's song “Another brick in the wall” criticizes an alienating and demotivating educational system. People, or children, are portrayed as bricks due to their homogeneity, whether in the way of living or thinking in a society that is not very fond of opposition. Bricks work very well in this comparison, having changed very little throughout history and around the world in their rectangular shapes. But that's not true of their colors. Although we tend to think of red when we talk about bricks, there are infinite possibilities of shades, depending on the composition and manufacturing process of the pieces.

Seosaeng House / Studio Weave

Paula Pintos — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Set within a clifftop on South Korea’s eastern peninsula, Seosaeng House marries London-based Studio Weave’s imaginative architecture with Korean tradition in a multi-generational family home stepped to become one with the hillside.

YeoHaengGa House / Jaeguidang Architects.

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 20:00:00 +0000

I met a client who does the same job as me. Even holding the same job title. At the first client meeting with the family, I could tell how professional he is in his job. He showed off his baseball equipment so I took him out to the parking lot and popped my trunk and showed mine. Both of us are catchers in our community baseball league. When you find out that someone shares the same hobby as you, it makes you talk a lot. And also it helps you to understand someone's personality and lifestyle. His wife is a baseball fan, too. Their little daughter cheers them on. The only problem is that they support different baseball teams.

Placemaking through Play: Designing for Urban Enjoyment

Ankitha Gattupalli — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 04:00:00 +0000

Humane cities center around the relationships between people and places. Communities thrive on shared resources, public spaces, and a collective vision for their locality. To nurture happy and healthy cities, designers and the public apply methods of placemaking to the urban setting. Placemaking—the creation of meaningful places—strongly relies on community-based participation to effectively produce magnetic public spaces.

Café Teri / NAMELESS Architecture

Hana Abdel — Tue, 03 May 2022 07:00:00 +0000

The site is located below the eastern foot of Gyeryongsan Mountain in Daejeon, South Korea. Adjacent to the site where the mountains and plains meet, the entrance to the old trail is located. The new building starts from the topography of the trail from the village to the mountain.

S.A.L.T House Visitors Center / S.E.E.D haus

Valeria Silva — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 06:00:00 +0000

S.A.L.T house stands for space for Air, Light, Tree. This project is designed to reinterpret the meaning of the sentence, “A room (or an architectural space) is not a room without natural light” in 『Louis I. Kahn — Light and Space』. Namely, the light lights up a space and the internal mood is created by the intensity of light. Therefore, the light provides meaning to the place.

N House / SOSU ARCHITECTS

Hana Abdel — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Singleness in an open site - Naegok-dong House (N House) is one of the few single-family housing sites that belong to public housing district developed by SEOUL LAND & HOUSING CORPORATION (SH). The site overlooking a large-scale apartment complex, where the road to the village and the road leading to the entrance of the large-scale apartment complex meet, is too public for a single-family house to be located in an urban context. Securing the singleness of a single-family home under these site conditions became a critical starting point for this project.

Lee Lee Heon / SOSU ARCHITECTS

Hana Abdel — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 22:00:00 +0000

A house with open corners - Lee Lee Heon stands on a side road not far from the main road, and it is a complex building of lower-level rental commercial space and upper-level residential space. The building’s corners were actively opened so that passerby could easily recognize commercial rental spaces located on the backside road from the main road on the first and second floors. The corners mostly open to the alleyway, which meets multi-family houses built in the same form around the 1990s, creates a staircase at the corners visually connected to the main road naturally links the movement line to the second floor’s commercial space.

Nine windows / S.E.E.D haus

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000

Nine windows
The purpose of this project is to renovate an empty building in Myeong-dong, one of the most chaotic places in Seoul due to the collision of contexts from the past and the ones in progress, into a corporate headquarters. Thus, this program started from the idea of transforming both the inside and outside of the building that stood still for a long time against change to regenerate its existence and realize new programs, while building relationships with the surroundings.

Doo Jip House / Archihood WxY

Hana Abdel — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 01:00:00 +0000

A Very Ambiguous Boundary - Buam-Dong "Doo Jip" is a two-family house in which "intersection" and "separation" coexist. The design of this house begins with the relationship between these two concepts. Two families, the parents and their son and his wife, decided to live together for ten years in such a house that we designed. The first impression they got from living at the site was that it was very high up. The house was located on the hillside of Mt. Inwang, and was at a high altitude with a steep slope. At the entry to the site, there was a 5-meter-high retaining wall. The work environment for the house construction was not good due to the high density of the surroundings.In addition, an inconsistency between the official and current boundary line made it more difficult. Despite these obstacles, the view from the site was so beautiful that the families overlooked them.

The Colors of Brick

Lilly Cao — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 04:30:00 +0000

Brick is one of the most popular materials for architects designing with a vintage or rustic aesthetic: exposed brick walls are often touted as highly desirable for apartments, restaurants, and stores, and exterior brick facades can make a building or home feel warmer and more inviting. However, the color and cut of the brick can greatly influence the atmosphere it emanates, with white brick lending itself to more minimalist design and tan brick tending to feel more rustic and earthy. In this article, we will explore some of the most popular brick colors, ways to artificially color brick, and recent projects that use brick facades or interior brick elements effectively.

Slope House / Studio EON

Andreas Luco — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 19:00:00 +0000

The project is located on a gentle slope of a mountainous topography in Wonju city, South Korea. The main design concept for this house is to compose a roof slope that becomes a facade of a house. The roof is not only an apparatus that gives a strong visual impact to residents and visitors but also a metaphor for the slope of the Kam-Ak mountain at the site. Also, the sculpted out terrace on the roof, which is facing toward the eastern mountain, provides you a spectacular view. In plan, the house consists of three volumes that are split underneath the sloped roof.

Over the Layers Building / A'DUS [Architectural Designer Cluster]

Hana Abdel — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Abandoned space - Most people try to produce maximum efficiency with minimum law and order within given conditions. However, if the obsession to keep the minimum law gathers, the architect will create a box-like building that compacts the land.

Turning Cube House / A'DUS [Architectural Designer Cluster]

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 06:00:00 +0000

From outside to inside, inside to outside - Required space programs are planned for each cube. And these cubes create the entirety of the space and architectural form. Once a cell is filled by either programs or building masses, other cell will be emptied. The design approach is this repetitive process of filling and emptying the cells. Main courtyard space penetrates the building vertically and horizontally. The space is harmonized with surrounding cubes, which has its own personality and unique function, and makes a relationship between inside and outside.

In-filled Void / California Design Lab + S.E.E.D haus

Hana Abdel — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 23:00:00 +0000

The Cafe Camptong project is designed to transform an old building stood empty for a long time in Apgujeong, Gangnam, a place having the most urban context in Seoul, into a cultural space. This project began with a consideration about how to build a new relationship between the building with stopped time and isolated spaces and the city. A building can easily change its shape from a market space of the past into an office of today. If it fails to harmonize with its surrounding environment, however, it would just be one of many that stand there without any meaning.