Work From Home

Seoul, South Korea

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Work From Home

Seoul, South Korea

Firm

Gubo Architect

Type

Commercial › Office Retail

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2019

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

Located in the historic cultural heritage area near Seoul Fortress Wall, 'Ihwa 3 Work From Home' is lo-fi and lo-res architecture whose form, size and program are determined by various strict constraints. These days, the Korean real estate community has recently entered an era of low growth, showing that the era of FARMAX is coming to an end. We set the optimum development scale in the complex functions of construction area, cost, revenue and maintenance cost, and intentionally found the optimal development capacity, without designing the largest volume building, as in general rental profit-type architecture in Seoul.
Unlike the usual method of stacking rental units vertically and connecting them by shared staircases, the vertical unit configuration that allows all of the individual units to occupy the ground to third floors, allowing three units to sit side by side with the access to the ground level. Through this method, the architecture was designed to create diverse landscapes on the street and contribute to creating an atmosphere for those who move to and from the street. The lower floors were treated with concrete exposure without special finishes to make the solid plinth look like a continuous ground, and the upper floors, in contrast, were intended to be natural building figure using silica-treated wood.