SPACE-B Gallery + 'House of Green B'

The House of Green is a transparent house in which plants and human beings coexist. Transparency indicates the penetrability of its boundaries. These delicate dividing lines – between architecture and nature, inside and outside, space and scenery – create a flexible microclimate on the inside characterised by a visual lightness. Various synaesthetic impressions, based on the changes in solar radiation, temperature, precipitation, and humidity, accent this place, a House of Green with light skin layers. Here, people and plants share an experience freed from time and space.

The glass roof, which resembles the flow of the surrounding land, is made from asymmetric gables. Considering the site conditions of short daylight hours, the broad surface of the asymmetric glass roof faces the south direction in order to obtain the maximum amount of sunlight.

Architect

NAMELESS Architecture (Na Unchung, Yoo Sorae)

Design team

Lee Changsoo, Lee Jungho

Location

Sangnam-myeon, Inje-gun, Gangwon-do, Korea

Programme

greenhouse

Site area

4,060m2

Building area

400.41m2

Gross floor area

400.41m2

Building scope

Height

6.3m

Building to land ratio

9.86%

Floor area ratio

9.86%

Structure

steel structure

Exterior finishing

exposed concrete, 24mm low-iron glass

Interior finishing

polished concrete

Structural engineer

Mido Structure

Mechanical and electrical engineer

H&C

Construction

JEHYO

Design period

June 2015 − June 2016

Construction period

July 2016 − Feb. 2018

Landscape design

Design studio loci (Park Seungjin)

NAMELESS Architecture

NAMELESS Architecture is a concept-based design practice with offices in Seoul and New York. Na Unchung and Yoo Sorae each graduated from Hongik University and Korea University. They both received M.Arch. from the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. After establishing NAMELESS Architecture in New York, they expanded their office into Seoul. They run a practice committed to simplicity in an unpredictable world, where they explore the worlds of architecture, city, and global cultural phenomena. NAMELESS’s work has been widely published and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Center for Architecture New York, Parsons the New School, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul Museum of Art and National Museum of Korea. The office has received numerous awards, including AIA New York Honor Awards, The Architectural League Prize for Young Architect, AIA New Practice New York (NPNY), Kim Swoo Geun Prize Preview Award and Design Vanguard Award from Architectural Record.