top image Residence for Mr. P (2025) by KHYarchitects. ©Park Youngtae
SPACE August 2025 (No. 693)
If you find yourself drawn at first glance to the works of aoa architects (principal, Suh Jaewon) and KHYarchitects (principal, Kim Hyoyoung), it is likely a response to the distinctiveness of their forms. What’s cute draws you in, what’s intriguing makes you stop, and what’s unfamiliar gives you pause.▼1 These forms may appear trivial at first, yet they possess a clear and persuasive power, so much so that many are pulled into the stories that lie within; stories in form. In their own ways, both architects are speaking about the roles and methodologies of architecture. Let’s take a look inside their recently completed works, The Petit House, Cheongun (2024) and Residence for Mr. P (2025).
The Petit House, Cheongun (2024) by aoa architects
Design embracing construction errors: hat hook (left), strange square (right). ©Suh Jaewon
The Petit House, Cheongun (2024) by aoa architects
Park Jiyoun (Park): Recently, aoa architects and KHYarchitects each completed a residential project in Cheongun-dong. While they are different in terms of the scale and one is new construction and the other is renovation project, they seem to share the same residential purp...
