Plans

We chose to break the row into fragments rather than just extending the “wall” of houses to the end of the site, by placing the main house at the western end of the site. This allows a bleeding between the front and back spaces and creates an outdoor space open to the street within the depth of the row house.

At a micro scale this tension between the contoured natural condition and the orthogonal master plan condition is further developed in the choice of materials. By using a simple orthogonal brick, in an orthogonal order and allowing the bricks to slide out of plane to create the curved wall, the tension between orthogonal and contoured form is revealed. This tectonic tension is parallel to the tension that exists between the building and the row of houses adjacent to it and between the master plan massing and the hilly landscape.

© Yong-Kwan Kim

• Architects

  Mass Studies and Slade Architecture

• Location

  South Korea

• Category

  Houses

• Slade Architecture Project Team

  James Slade, Illya Korolev, Oliver Spreckelsen

• Mass Studies Project Team

  Minsuk Cho, Kisu Park, Joungwon Lee, Soonbok Choi, Junkoo Kang, Sungpil Won

• Structural Engineer

  Youngho Lee

• Mep Engineer

  Samjung Engineers, Jinsan Engineers

• Construction

  Hanwool Construction

• Client

  Younghyo Jin, Sookhee Chan

• Area

  0.0 m2

• Project Year

  2003

• Photographs

  Yong-Kwan Kim