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What I Want from a Home: Sallimzip Common

Ryu Changsu + EDAM Architects

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Ryu Changsu
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Ryu Changsu (unless otherwise indicated)
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Ryu Changsu
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SPACE December 2024 (No. 685) 

 

 

Sallimzip Common 

We don’t really use the word salimjip much these days. Unlike a bakery, a Chinese restaurant, or a florist, a salimjip isn’t a place for buying and selling—it’s a home simply meant for living. But in today’s houses, where the madang has disappeared and the main functions are limited to sleeping and eating, all the usual parts of life – leisure, studying, hosting guests, family gatherings – now happen in rented spaces outside the home. Maybe that’s why salimjip is losing its meaning. A house without real ‘householding’ isn’t a place to live as ourselves, it’s just something to own, decorate, and show off. So, our highs and lows – proofs of our existence – are now happening outside the home, remembered and recorded in places that aren’t ours. The home gradually loses its story, reduced to a physical space and a price, traded again and again. And as we move from place to place, our memories scatter across the city, slipping away. Since leaving my parents’ house, I’ve moved twenty times. I’ve always wanted a place to be my last, a home where all my memories, the joys and sorrows, the big moments and small, could accumulate and be passed down through generations. But not just a home for me alone— one where we could share memories, a s...

 
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Architect

Ryu Changsu (Ewha Womans University) + EDAM Archit

Design team

Park Yeseo

Location

Ogeum-dong, Duckyang-gu, Goyang-si, Kyunggi-do, Ko

Programme

multi-family house

Site area

583.8㎡

Building area

288.69㎡

Gross floor area

666.2㎡

Building scope

B1, 3F

Parking

6

Height

12.11m

Building to land ratio

49.45%

Floor area ratio

83.75%

Structure

RC, wooden structure

Exterior finishing

EIFS (STO), crushed stone plastering, zinc roof, L

Interior finishing

emulsion paint, laminate flooring, micro topping

Structural engineer

CHANG MINWOO Structural Consultants

Mechanical engineer

MAEK&SEE

Electrical engineer

Kukdong Power FM

Construction

KSPNC

Design period

Jan. 2021 – June 2022

Construction period

July 2022 – Aug. 2023

Client

Ryu Jeongsook, Ryu Changsu, Lee Heewon

Ryu Changsu
Ryu Changsu is a professor at Ewha Womans University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Seoul National University and his master of architecture (MArch) in architecture and urban design from the AA School and obtained his British Architect licence as a British architect in the U.K. in 2004. He gained practical experience at Chang-jo Architects, RHWL Architects in London and HAEAHN Architecture, and has been teaching architectural design at Ewha Womans University since 2006.
Choi Jongmoon
Choi Jongmoon is the principal of EDAM Architects and earned his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Seoul National University and his master’s in architecture and urban planning from University of Stuttgart in Germany. Following his academic pursuits, he gained practical experience working at several architectural firms in Korea. In 2009, he established his own firm. His projects primarily focus on neighbourhood commercial facilities and small-scale multi- family housing. He has also shown a keen interest in public architecture, completing projects such as public libraries and indoor gymnasiums. He had taught at Ewha Womans University and served as a public architect for the Seoul Metropolitan Government.
NO. 685 DECEMBER 2024 PROJECT Ryu Changsu Ewha Womans University EDAM Architects Choi Jongmoon single house multi-family housing Sallimzip madang
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