Kyomunsa Publisher?s new headquarters in Paju Book City is a hybrid building that combines book?s storage with working spaces.

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Architects: Daniel Valle Architects

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Area: 1497.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

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Collaborator: Minah Lee

Estimation Cost : 1,400,000,000 KRW

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From the architect. Kyomunsa Publisher?s new headquarters in Paju Book City is a hybrid building that combines book?s storage with working spaces.

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The project takes the opportunity to propose a common container capable to absorb both programs. Consequently, the building is thought as a sequence of correlative sections constructed along an eighty meter long structure.
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The first section is a rectangular, one floor, six by eleven meters shape -?ideal? for storing books- and its last one in a three floor, pitched roof, fifteen by seven meters shape ?a section that resembles to a living or working typology. The sequence of sections along the project is smoothly morphing between the first and last one.

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The second step is to place the new structure on site. As the site ...