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• Architects: Bang Keun YOU
• Location: Hamyang-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
• Architect In Charge: Bang Keun YOU
• Area: 170.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Kwang Sik JUNG

• Construction Architect: GNU AYA(Atelier You Architech & Urbanism), Bang Keun YOU
• Team: Hai Jin Anh, Seo Jeong Yang, Seong Chul Jeong, Sei Ri Lee, So Hyun Sin
• Engineers: SNS Structure (structure), Filobe (system Window)
• Construction: Miryung Construction

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Site Plan

From the architect. The client’s first intention was to locate the house further down the valley; but in my eyes there was a much evident location.

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Sketches

Indeed locating the project site higher on the mountain, would provide a pleasant distant panorama of Cheonwangbong (Jirisan mountain’s summit), and at the same time a view over the valley and the small village. A poetic landscape picture, with colors changing every seasons, that could be peacefully contemplated through the house’s large window “frames”.

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As always, if not handled with sensitivity, designing a project on a naturally virgin site can easily turn into a serious disaster. To appear legitimate among this wonderful landscape, the project had to draw from the nature’s spirit, and communicate with it.

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Sketches

So came the idea of an organic concept, each volumes nesting harmoniously with the surrounding environment; This harmony is by the way reinforced by the use of natural earth toned materials, inspired from Jirisan mountain’s seasonal colors. 

From the entrance door, the plan layout develops from either side of the main circulation axis going upstairs.

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On the right the kitchen, dining room and bathroom, opposed to living room and bedroom on the left, with large windows facing the valley view. Thereby the dynamic space is distinctly divided from the resting space.

The living room wooden floor material turns over the walls reinforcing the cocoon feel.

Similar to a waggon, the different interior spaces are connected in one single homogenous entity, covered with a copper fabric.

Longitudinal Section

Cross Section

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• Architects: Sameep Padora & Associates
• Location: Fountain @ Phoenix Mall, Lower Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400013, India
• Design Team: Shravanthi Kumar, Aparna Dhareshwar, Nitisha Raje, Sanam Bauva
• Contractor: Sanjay Baikerikar
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Kunal Bhatia, Studio KB

CRAFT is designed to be an antithesis to its mall location characterized by the placeless experiences that dominate mall cultures.

To subvert the typical experience of a glass horizontal edge between the corridor and ‘ interior’ space we used the arcade as a means to structure a reference to the type of a colonnaded walkway defining spaces of intimacy, pause and refuge from the cacophony of the busy corridors just outside. 

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Details

This edge is designed as a wooden arcade, assembled by stacking and rotating horizontal wooden members around a pivot point and hence through their form defining the width of a booth while rising as high as double height of the façade. The warmth and intimate scale of the booth is offset by the continuity of the service bar and open kitchen right up to the alfresco dining space beyond. 

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