A skinny house by STPMJ dominates its surroundings by stacking five tall floors onto a 100-square-metre plot in Seoul to create a "provocative" take on a family home.
Each narrow floor of the home has a nine-metre-high ceiling. Rooms are divided vertically rather than horizontally, providing the family of five with areas such as a children's playroom and a furniture-making studio.

It was a desire for these diverse room uses that STPMJ felt could not be achieved by the traditional one or two-floor residences in the area.
"Living in a flat with living room, kitchen, dining and bedrooms in a single floor, is typical residential environment in Seoul," explained the architects. "A vertically stacked house with small floor area is a provocative residential type in this culture."
To deal with the site's boundaries and light regulations, the brick facade of the house has been scooped out at key points.
"The house seeks small tweaks by "arcing" the major elements that define the building," explained the architecture studio.

The largest of these arcs sacrifices precious floor space to prevent the house from blocking sunlight to neighbouring properties. It sweeps down the house's northern side from the top floor to the third floor where it extends seamlessly into a terrace.
At ground-floor level, a much smaller scoop creates a partially covered parking area alongside the building's eastern edge. The south-west corner is curved ...