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Building with Trees: Rethinking Architecture’s Relationship to Site

Daniela Andino — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Trees are often the first things to vanish when construction starts. Clearing a site has long been one of architecture's most immediate acts, removing what already exists to make room for something new. When vegetation is preserved, it is typically treated as a secondary layer, added back as landscape rather than shaping the project itself.

Charcoal Haus / moc architects

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:00:00 +0000

From the Place – Chacol Haus (charcoal) is located midway up an unremarkable Korean hillside, densely covered with pine trees. Below the site, an industrial complex is planned. This creates an unexpectedly open view. Because the land is within a greenbelt zone, there are few buildings nearby. What makes the site unusual is the presence of a half-finished garden and fish pond. These remnants of a former business give the place an awkward atmosphere, rather than a natural one.

Boundary Residence / cmm architects

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:00:00 +0000

This project began with a simple question: how can we create a space where the day starts with quiet reflection, where one can observe a pocket of nature and feel the gentle sunlight passing beneath the eaves of a traditional hanok? From this point, our central concern became the relationship between interior and exterior, and how architecture can mediate the threshold between the two.

West Glow Office and Retail Building / Society of Architecture

Hana Abdel — Sun, 05 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Venice, the essence of this experience lies in wandering through the streets of Venice. Walking along the streets, entering beautiful shops for shopping, dining in restaurants with delicious aromas, and continuing along the path until encountering St. Marco's Square—all these pedestrian experiences constitute the experience of the city itself. This holds true for most cities worldwide. A city is its streets, and streets define a city. The late Korean architect, Guyon Chung once said, "To walk this street is to become part of its history." Walking the streets means becoming part of the city's history.

Fa-brick / Society of Architecture

Hana Abdel — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The Modular Game - Modules serve as the measurement that guides construction. These numbers vary based on conditions such as the weight of materials, production methods, mobility and quantity considerations, structural limits, and more. Typically, prefabricated materials produced through production lines have specific dimensions, and the dimensions of partitions are determined based on these sizes. Even materials without joints, such as external renders without joints or materials cast or welded, cannot infinitely extend the length or area of materials. In architectural design, the issues of partitioning and joining always arise.

A Weekend House / Architecture Lab Boum

Valeria Silva — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:00:00 +0000

A Weekend House, Meditation of Four Colors - A weekend house for two couples. The name of the house that the four people built together, “Sasaek “ means four colors and meditations in Korean. It is a name that perfectly suits this house, which has a square floating mass with secret courtyards.

REIKIS Mangwon Commercial Building / Studio Stuckyi

Hana Abdel — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 18:00:00 +0000

0 Territory Extension of designers’ business - Real estate development by designers: We live in an age when it is common to have multiple occupations. The boundaries between jobs are disappearing, and many people have multiple jobs with different names. It happens in the design industry, too. Studio Stuckyi is a studio where 3 designers who have worked on architectural design and interior design in their own workplaces met together. Each designer has been comprehensively working in designing commercial spaces and brands and has built up knowledge of real estate development from previous workplaces. It felt like a good team to spread into new areas of business. We wondered what is beyond designing the building in the sites requested by clients. If we the designers could plan and build the space for ourselves and then take over the management, would it be possible to create a better space?

Five Courtyards House / Architecture Lab Boum

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 18:00:00 +0000

The small hill running from the east was sinking gently as it passed through the site and went west. It was a land that was open southwest like that. We could cover the several blue sandwich panel roofs in the village by raising the fence. Then, it seemed to be wonderful that the harmony of the green yard, the horizon of the fence, the sky above it, the small hill near the east, and the far view open to the southwest. The house had to be placed quietly behind the landscape and a device to contain them.

MRNW Daegu Cultural Center / Society of Architecture + Yerin Kang

Hana Abdel — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Conditions of the Site - MRNW Daegu is a project that transforms an inherited landscaping tree farm cultivated by the client’s father in the past, into a new space. The site located on the northern border of Daegu was designated as a restricted development area and used as a landscaping farm for 20 years. The south side of the site faces Donghwacheon-ro (two-way six-lane road) and the north side faces Hoguk-ro (one-way one-lane road). Donghwacheon-ro is about 2.3m higher than the site level. The boundary of the site facing Hoguk-ro was made of a farm fence and pine trees over the fence. When the project launched, the site was full of landscaping plants that the client’s father had grown for 20 years with his affection for trees and also for sale. An old garden was in an expansive lawn yard and five warehouses were arranged around it, in front of the management housing.

Aquarius Pyramid House / IROJE Architects & Planners

Collin Chen — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 02:00:00 +0000

This project is an architecture commissioned for Korea's top movie star, C. Her original home built in the '70s, was perhaps the only reality and important regression space for her, who has been she appeared as the protagonist of her silver screen from her young days, expressing the lives of countless others.

Small Cafe Designs: 30 Aspirational Examples in Plan & Section

Clara Ott — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 07:30:00 +0000

The interior design of a coffee shop can make-or-break an establishment. With an inviting design, you can transform drinking a simple cup of coffee into a wonderful experience. However, when you only have a few square meters and various machines and properties to distribute, finding an efficient configuration is not easy.

Waon House / Z_Lab

Hana Abdel — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 01:00:00 +0000

This project started with a desire to create a space that offers a complete therapy. Thanks to the many good deeds done in the past by the old lady (Mrs. Ham)-whom the region’s name Hamdeok originated from-the vernacular stone house left a good first impression. The wonders this stone house offered, captured our hearts like love at first sight. And with the good intentions shared with a friend, new interpretations were added to the space to complete a stay with the theme of healing and therapy called ‘Waon’.

Cafe 7 YAD / SUBTEXT

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

Arcadia, an idealistic pastoral space from ancient Greek myths where people can relish the beauty of nature, now refers to Utopia or the nature itself. Nature has been the subject of desire as far as history could track back and even now that we live in a digital-ruled world, nature and the fullness it gives to people’s lives linger.

Tiny Second Home in Urban / mundoehoje

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:00:00 +0000

‘Tiny Second Home in Urban’, located in a town at the end of the hill neighboring Namsan in the heart of Seoul, is designed for second home in urban. Originally, the client intended to only transform the use of this old single-story wooden house but not to make a major change of the frame.

Nuwa House / Z_Lab

Valeria Silva — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Nuwa is located in Nuha-dong, Seochon, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Seoul. It is the oldest village along with Bukchon and was the residence of the royal family, scholars, and the middle class since the Joseon Dynasty. After the Japanese colonial period, it was a village of writers and artists from various fields. It is a town where painters such as Chusa Kim Jung-hee, Jeong Sun, Lee Joong-seop, Lee Sang-bum, Park No-soo, and other poets and novelists such as Seo Jung-joo, Kim Dong-ri, and Yoon Dong-ju lived. We pondered the modern sense of spirit of entertainment and art that can be enjoyed in a small stay in Seochon where long history and diverse culture coexist.

NCNP Coffee / moc architects

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 06:00:00 +0000

Mansungli Beach, a representative tourist spot in Yeosu that protrudes towards the South Sea in Korea, has a calm and beautiful coastal scenery, facing NamHae between the sea. The site located in Mansungli Beach is surrounded by mountains, sea, and breakwater structures, which inspires the exterior of the exposed concrete, applying the raw and simple image of the land. The external wall of the underground parking lot was finished with rough concrete surface in order to naturally harmonize the building and the sloping terrain. Visitors can admire Mansungli Beach and South Sea from the front yard that is above the parking lot.

WON Building / moc architects

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:00:00 +0000

WON Building, located in a typical commercial district of a New Town in Busan, Korea, was designed and built for rental just like other buildings neighboring it. The client, however, added one specific requirement: making it DIFFERENT from others with ordinary structures. The reasonable scale of WON Building distinguishes itself from other buildings, most of which were built as large and tall as possible to make more room for rent, leaving two positive aspects; one is better popularities for rent, relieving the burden of tenants, and the other is reducing the density of the urban area filled with skyscrapers.