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Apartment, already divided space.
Activity in the apartment is already decided, too.
Young married couple and two children live in this apartment. This family want to depart from the standard apartment activity. They did not want a living room where TV and sofa are the owners. They wanted to be able to gather together naturally without TV or sofa in the living room.
The hallway from the entrance to the living room and the living room to the master bedroom is too dark and huge. So, we made the hallway to some activity space at the first. In the kitchen, mother can watch children who play in the living room and father where work in the hallway can talk with children. The point is integrating the living room, bathroom, entrance, kitchen space with stay circulation in the one space.
There is a window in the south where the sun comes in warmly all day, but the window space was serving as a warehouse as in the veranda. From the space where the luggage was piled up, it turned into a space where children could play in a sunny place. We hope that the living room in center of the house will be a warm place with books and meditations, not sofas and television and that there will be a rich daily life where more conversation and various children can play, not the general daily life of the apartment. The lower part of a large ordinary space can be used as a storage area. The TV in the living room is removed and connected naturally to the bookcase, which is the extension of the living room at the same time as the children's play. The entire wall of this living room has a white-toned bookcase.
When the children were grown up, they needed one more room to use as a nursery. Traditionally, the main room and small room were used as bedrooms and another room as study rooms. However, as in most families with young children in Korea, the main bedroom and small room were spacious and huge beds, and the living room was filled with children's toy. As a result, there are three rooms, but the rooms except the home office have the same function as the users, and the living room is dizzy. Due to the lack of efficiency in the space, it is a 62-pyeong apartment, but it seems to use a 30-pyeong space. In addition, there was a need to install one more room, so there was a concern about how to efficiently and widely use the space. First of all, the functions of each room and living room were separated, and the physical space was limited, so the existing unnecessary walls were removed or some of them were opened so that they could be opened visually. For example, half of the walls of the living room and the kitchen were removed, so that the living room could be visible from the kitchen, or some walls of the living room were removed to use the entrance and living room as an open space.