Dan Dan Dan House is located in an industrial area in Hamamatsu, Japan. The architect, Tsukasa Okada, intended the house to be private and not overlooked by surrounding factory buildings while at the same time retaining open indoor space. So the ‘families could maintain their distance while also remaining aware of each other’s presence’, he positioned the living room with a tatami mat in the centre of the house and installed translucent polycarbonate panels on the surrounding walls.

“Eeoulin” is located approximately 400 meters away from Yangpyeong station on Line 5, and popular among white-collar workers living on their own. In its initial planning, around a tenth of the building’s units were set to become shared housing, but this changed with the perspective that people wouldn’t want to share their homes so much as seek their own rooms and expand their living space from there onwards. Thus, each room became independent units, with the necessary furnishing and facilities for private activities self-contained therein.

The house was full of symbols and meanings, such as having to be like a medieval castle and a streamlined camping trailer, or a stone deck floating about a meter around the house (under a cat's doorway), and a key-shaped handle to adjust the boat. It was more appealing than the neutral feeling of universality or mediocrity.

Woojuwon, located in the Misa Gangbyeon Town in Hanam, is a commercial housing project for a family of three, a young couple with a daughter in preschool. Named by combining one syllable from the names of each family member, this house seems to have become the one and only universe for this family. It is built in a commercial housing block in a new housing site development district. While most residences expose only one façade, woojuwon reveals more than two sides along the edge of the block. This is because it stands at the corner at which two roads cross. The client asked me to plan a neighbourhood living facility on the first floor, residential units for rent throughout, and the client’s house on the upper floor.

Seoul Seojin School encountered countless difficulties before they could open their doors last March. This was due to multiple tensions existing between those involved in founding the new school: the parents of special needs children, the Ministry of Education, and the local residents. As architects wrestling with these tensions, we defined the special needs school as an educational space of societal necessity, rather than thinking of it as something special. This special-needs school operates 28 classes for students with developmental disabilities, in which students can complete elementary, middle and high school curriculums or engage in specialised professional training. Due to the varied nature of developmental disabilities and physical conditions, we wanted to create a school that would cater to the needs of all, embracing the requirements of this diverse student body.