SPACE December 2024 (No. 685)
At the invitation of Baek Jin (professor, Seoul National University), SPACE visited Pangyo Housing on the 18th of October. Pangyo Housing, which was designed by Yamamoto Riken, a 2024 Pritzker Prize laureate, is a multi-family housing project that features for the first time the concept of the ‘local community area’. What did Yamamoto wish to achieve through a residential experiment conducted 14 years ago? Moreover, how are its residents faring? In the first part of this report, we take a tour around Pangyo Housing, focusing on Yamamoto’s concept of ‘local community area’. Following this, Baek Jin and Han Sangwoo (lecturer, Chonnam National University) analyse the transparent entrance of Pangyo Housing in depth to identify Yamamoto’s innovative vision.
①The Journey of the First Experiment with the Local Community Area Principles
②Transparency that Makes Sense: The Entrance Room as a Metaphor for the Madang
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The Journey of the First Experiment with the Local Community Area Principles
Local Community Area, Innovations in Residential System
The designer of Pangyo Housing (Unjoong Block B5-2, known today as Worlden Hills Sanun Village Complex 2) Yamamoto Riken was picked as the winner of the 2024 Pritzker Prize. The award was bequeathed on account of his attempt to create a ‘local community area’, proposing a new kind of residential system that would dismantle our conventional understandings of privacy and revitalise the local society and community. A society in which houses are built not only for residents but also for real-estate investors motivated the proposal for a local community area. While the system of providing housing for a standard famil...
