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 Nature of Housing and The Cultivation of an Ethos
Pangyo Housing is notorious for its entrance, striking for its transparent glass door. It is representative of the communal housing designed by Riken Yamamoto, who advoca...
