This cute house is standing in middle of old house town in Seoul, south Korea. Despite the house contains highly compressive function, we tried not to lose the taste of life by adding some redundant spaces here and there.

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Architects: FHHH FRIENDS

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Architect In Charge: FHHH FRIENDS

Contractor: Moowon Construction

Area: 98.0 m2

Photographs: Kyung Roh

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From the architect. This cute house is standing in middle of old house town in Seoul, south Korea. Despite the house contains highly compressive function, we tried not to lose the taste of life by adding some redundant spaces here and there.In designing of a small house, it is usually considered that The Small house must be designed compressively as possible, so the spaces without function are discounted as wasting spaces too easily. But is function all in the house"
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 In this small project, we rather focused on the factors having no function. Because we wanted to pull up value of life in this house, and thought the value of life is not comes from the function but comes from the factors have no special function, such spaces like a small garden what is good to read, and an opened roof that make feel the weather inside, Etc 

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And paradoxically, the desire for the space...