Today?s city transforms so rapidly that it influences the ways in which our domestic environment changes in the urban center. Accelerating commercialization and increasing land value of the central city area consequently shifts the identity of its own residential spaces. Speculative multiplex housings and commercial buildings gradually occupy the areas where used to be densely concentrated with single-family houses. As a result, we witness the existing single-home typology moving towards the suburb, and in such way, our urban center loses its heterogeneity of its housing types.

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Architects: OBBA · Office Profile

Location: Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Architect In Charge: Sojung Lee & Sangjoon Kwak

Design Team: Sangbo Park, Daae Kim, Jaeho Kim, Hojae Lee, Seok Choi

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Kyungsub Shin · Photographer Profile

Structure Engineer: THEKUJO (Byungsoon Park)

Mep: IECO Engineering

Construction: Dasan Construction Engineering

Total Floor Area: 249.75?

Site Area: 330.50?

Site Coverage Area: 107.56?

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From the architect. Today?s city transforms so rapidly that it influences the ways in which our domestic environment changes in the urban center. Accelerating commerc...