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架构师提供的文本描述。微型住宅K是一个建在小场地(74㎡)上的小型住宅。申请建地比后，可建面积仅剩30㎡。架构师必须在有限的区域上设置必要的程序，这个过程是从第一次遇到项目现场开始的。一小块地在一所小学旁边，有一家古老的文具店，被称为附近小镇上历史最长的商店。这家商店已经有50年的历史了，除此之外，它还被肆无忌惮地非法扩建。建筑师不得不回忆起一些设计方法，这些方法无法摧毁学校和村民对校友的旧记忆。就像首尔的任何旧式低层商业区一样，他的项目工地与邻近的地点有着复杂的关系，这是从老商店搬出去的一个困难原因。而且它的长边沿有一个小斜坡，所以建筑师必须有一种方法来应用于斜坡倾斜的场地。

Text description provided by the architects. Micro housing K is a tiny housing which built on small site(74㎡). After applying for building to land ratio, there was left only 30㎡ for the buildable area. The architect must put essential programs contendingly on the limited area and the process was started from the first encounter with the site of the project. A small site was beside an elementary school and there was an old stationery store that became known as the longest term store in its town nearby. The store was 50 years old building, addition, it was extended thoughtlessly and illegally. The architect had to recall some design methods that can not demolish old memory of alumni of the school and village people. Like any old low rise downtown area in Seoul, his project site had complex relations with adjacent sites and it was a cause of difficulty of removal from the old store. And it had a slight slope on its long edge, so architect had to have a method of application for slope inclined site.

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尹东奎

在韩国，通常的小房子是一家的一栋房子。然而，微型住宅K有一个住宅为客户，摄影工作室，和两个出租单位。各种建筑尝试都克服了建筑面积的限制。首先，利用倾斜场地的特性，建筑师设计了一座有凹陷花园的地下室地板。总楼面面积比不包括地下室的一个面积，由于场地倾斜，它的两个整体外墙面对外部空气。第二，建筑师将底层设计成一个多阶段的模块，以获得可用性的有效性.特别是在出租单位，建筑师设计了宽的卫生间和淋浴间，大厨房面积和两个阁楼在另一边。

The usual type of tiny houses in Korea was composed one house for one family. However micro housing K has a housing for the client, photographic studio, and two rental units. And there was various architectural attempts overcoming limitation of floor area. First, using properties of the inclined site, architect designed a basement floor with sunken garden. Total floor area ratio does not include an area of the basement, and its two whole exterior walls face with the outside air because the site was inclined. Second, architect designed ground floors as a multi-stage module for procuring effectiveness of usability. Especially in rental units, architect designed wide toilet and shower room, big kitchen area and two attics on the other side.

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对于这个小房子的年轻承租人来说，这些是一些生活方式的空间解决方案。然而，这些优点，多阶段模块化的方法，使该建筑的高度和它造成了一个不好的比例，其外部设计。建筑师试图通过外部设计和材料的选择来克服这一问题。主要外部材料(长混凝土砌块)被广泛堆放，以强调水平效应。此外，屋顶上的金属天篷被设计成暗的，以限制其体积的垂直范围。这些外部设计的解决方案也是将我们的新建筑设计与客户城镇的旧风景相结合的尝试。对建筑物表面的开口进行了最小化和简化。外部材料和颜色的油漆具有冷静和凉爽的性质，与旧建筑社交。这一设计是基于建筑师的信念，即小型住宅必须自然融入现有的城市景观。因为狭小的房屋相当于在密集城市空间缝隙上形成的痕迹。

Those were some spatial solutions of lifestyle for young age lessee of this tiny housing. Nevertheless, these advantages, the method of the multi-stage module made this building high and it caused a bad proportion of its external design. Architect tried to overcome it with exterior design and selection of material. Main external material (long concrete block) was stacked widthways for emphasize of horizontal effect. Addition, metal canopy on rooftop was designed darkly for restraining vertical scope of its volume. Those solutions of external design were also an attempt of incorporation our new building design with an old scenery of client’s town. The openings of building surface were minimized and simplified. External material and color of paint have had a property of calm and cool for socializing with old buildings. The design was based on architect’s conviction that tiny housing has to melt naturally into existing cityscape. Because tiny housing equates to trace which be made on crevice of dense city space.

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Architects Architects H2L

Location 761-11 Majang-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Category Apartments

Lead Architects Seungkyu Lee, Changyong Hyun, Junghyun Hwang

Area 151.97 m2

Project Year 2017

Photographs Dongkyu Yoon