Two friends wanted a house of their own. They bought a land and designed a house together. However, they had different family composition, different lifestyles as well as different ideas on the house.

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Architects: JYA-RCHITECTS · Office Profile

Location: Pangyo-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Construction: We Build City

Area: 283.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Hwang Hyochel

© Hwang Hyochel

From the architect. Two friends wanted a house of their own. They bought a land and designed a house together. However, they had different family composition, different lifestyles as well as different ideas on the house.
© Hwang Hyochel

One had his focus on a family of two daughters while the other, staying single, focused on his private spaces. One wanted the space to be bright and open while the other wished it to be subtle and private. One hoped the house to have a variety of spaces amusingly entangled together for the children while the other wanted spaces to be simply arranged and as spacious as possible.

© Hwang Hyochel

Yet, they had a common problem to overcome?a size of a new house could not be larger than the houses they lived at the time. The problem was unavoidable as two different families had to share a land and a hou...