SPACE January 2025 (No. 686)
Volumes emptied here and there, façades cast in deep shadows, site boundaries without fences, a mix of small and large commercial spaces and courtyards, hallways that are jagged like alleyways, sculptural outdoor staircases, a shared kitchen with high ceilings, a laundry café with a spacious front yard, an elevated open-air sports space where the sky is visible, and private balconies without window frames. These might all amount to descriptions of familiar scenes that fill this ‘house’. However, at some point, they became unfamiliar in terms of apartment houses. Housing has become fortified, concerned with cramming in the maximum possible volume with its secret weapon of including balconies that can be incorporated into indoor spaces. The rigid prototype of the apartment house, built for reasons of efficiency and economy, ease of maintenance, safety and security, has created an island-like residential structure that is isolated from its community, and encounters between neighbours living under the same roof have become awkward. However, the freighted social discourse that informs the individualisation of production and consumption, the recent pandemic, and the disappearance of community networks has begun to demand a range of new architectural attempts in order to strengthen the habitability and solidarity to be found in apartment houses. Rather than discovering something new, we drew out the familiar or known scenes of apartment houses. We hoped it could become be a place that is open, loosely to the local community, and internally well-structured around its familiar scenery.
A Somewhat Different Kind of Public Rental Housing
Throughout the development of public rental housing, individual and collective relationships, the balance between private and public space, diversity of lifestyles, the boundaries of urban and residential areas, and experimental approaches to livability and creativity have been overlooked i...
AUBE architects (Yang Jeongwon, Jeon Jaeyoung) +
Yang Jeongwon, Jeon Jaeyoung, Noh Seoyoung
2060, Cheongnam-ro, Seowon-gu, Cheongju-si, Chung
public rental housing, business facility, neighbo
2,542.7㎡
1,478.56㎡
8,780.67㎡
B2, 11F
56
37.65m
58.15%
226.96%
RC
water paint, aluminum rubber
tile, wallpaper
CH Structural Engineering Co., Ltd.
Navi Environmental Equipment Consultant Co., Ltd.
Samwoo Electric Co., Ltd.
Daeheung Group Corp.
June – Dec. 2020
July 2021 – Dec. 2023
Korea Land & Housing Corporation
Bao design Co., Ltd.