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Designing the Process: Topology: Hanok | Yong Ju Lee Architecture

Yong Ju Lee Architecture

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SPACE November 2025 (No. 696) 

 

 

 

Topology: Hanok (2025) is an experiment that develops a topological design workflow using AI to reinterpret the sectional logic and spatial continuity of traditional Korean architecture beyond mere formal reconstruction or structural reproduction. Rather than directly restoring the structural joints or framing system of traditional hanok, the project focuses on its nonlinear spatial organisation, the fluidity of curves, and the continuous transitions between interior and exterior. These characteristics are gradually transformed through an AI-based th...

 
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Architect

Yong Ju Lee Architecture (Yong Ju Lee)

Design team

Oh Dachan

Location

232, Gongneung-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul, Korea

Programme

pavilion

Building area

6m²

Gross floor area

6m²

Height

3.6m

Design period

Apr. 2025

Construction period

Apr. – Oct. 2025

Cost

10 million KRW

Coding and fabrication

Robotic Fabrication Studio (Oh Dachan, Lee Dokwon

Yong Ju Lee
Yong Ju Lee is an architect who pursues experimentation across all layers of space. His works, spanning diverse scales and media, seek to provoke and inspire everyday life. He has exhibited at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the Venice Biennale, and received the Korea Public Architecture Award, iF Design Award, and Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard. He studied architecture at Yonsei University and Columbia University, and is currently an assistant professor at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, leading the Robotic Fabrication Studio. He published Constructing Thought (2024).
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