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架构师提供的文本描述。今天的城市变化如此之快，以至于它影响了我们城市中心的国内环境变化的方式。加快商品化进程，提高中心城区的土地价值，改变了中心城区居住空间的特征。投机性的复式住宅和商业建筑逐渐占据了过去集中于单一家庭住房的地区。结果，我们看到了现有的单一住宅类型向郊区转移，从而使我们的城市中心失去了其居住类型的异质性。

Text description provided by the architects. Today’s city transforms so rapidly that it influences the ways in which our domestic environment changes in the urban center. Accelerating commercialization and increasing land value of the central city area consequently shifts the identity of its own residential spaces. Speculative multiplex housings and commercial buildings gradually occupy the areas where used to be densely concentrated with single-family houses. As a result, we witness the existing single-home typology moving towards the suburb, and in such way, our urban center loses its heterogeneity of its housing types.

 Section Perspective

剖面透视

该住宅位于江南金融中心和Gaenari公寓楼之间的街区内，步行8分钟即可到达Yeoksam车站。这个地区曾经集中了许多独立的房屋。然而，江南商业区的发展及其随之而来的地价增值，使该地区拥有多套出租房屋和中高层写字楼。

This residence is located within the block between Gangnam Financial Center and Gaenari Apartment Complex, 8 minutes walk from the Yeoksam Station. This area was once concentrated with many detached houses. However, Gangnam’s development of the commercial district and its subsequent increment of land value gentrified the area with multi-unit rental housings and mid-rise office buildings.

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这位客户一辈子都住在这所房子里，他希望尊重母亲的意愿，不要离开这个有着珍贵记忆的地方。他们决定拆除这座破旧的房子，在同一个地方建造一个新家，让他的家人住在一起。该项目开始时是对不断变化的城市环境的反应，试图保护房子的现有价值。这样的背景让我们想到了一种新的单一家庭类型。

The client has been living in the house for his entire life, and wished to honor the will of his mother not to leave the place that has precious memories of. They decided to demolish the decrepit house and build a new home in the same place for his family to live together. The project began as a reaction to the changing urban environment, trying to conserve the existing values of the house. Such context led us to think of a new kind of single-family home typology.

 Floor Plan

该地点毗邻一条5米宽的东面公路。北面、南面和东面都被5层多单元住宅所包围，西侧的一栋房屋因层差而被提升。保护自然光线和隐私是最主要的问题之一，特别是因为南面的住宅建筑面对着地块地区的窗户。我们被要求分家，以确保客户的家人和他的母亲有自己的私人空间。

The site is adjacent to a 5 meter wide road on the east. Its north, south and east sides are all surrounded by 5 storey multi-unit housings, and a house on the west side is lifted due to the level difference. Securing natural light and privacy was one of the primary concerns, especially because of the housing building on the south faces its windows towards the plot area. We were asked to divide the house to make sure that the client’s family and his mother have their own private spaces.

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房子由三层组成，每层都是一个单独的空间；母亲的私人空间在底层，共用空间，例如二楼的客厅、餐厅和厨房，三楼的儿子的家人。我们部署的房子最近的西北端的网站，以便它减少了场地的覆盖面积，同时确保了足够高的建筑物。这所房子光线很好，因为它与南方的房产线有足够的距离，这给客户的母亲提供了足够的游走空间。

The house consists of three floors, and each becomes a separate volume; mother’s private space on the ground floor, a shared space, e.g., living room, dining room, and kitchen, on the second floor, and the son’s family on the third floor. We deployed the house closest to the north-west end of the site, so that it reduces the site coverage area whilst securing enough height of the building. The house is well-lighted as it is sufficiently distanced from the southern property line, and this gives an enough wandering space for the client’s mother.

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一扇双层大窗户出现在房子的南侧立面上。窗户从二楼一直延伸到三楼，向天空敞开着。然而，我们注意的是它的卧室和浴室等私人空间，避免了外界不舒服的凝视，但仍然让光线从天空进来。二楼的起居室和三楼的书房位于东南角，其海拔高度大致开放，允许大量自然光线进入。

A double layered large window appears on the south side elevation of the house. The window reaches from the second floor to the third floor, widely open towards the sky. However, we were attentive to the private spaces such as its bedroom and bathroom, refraining from an uncomfortable gaze from the outside, and yet still letting the light in from the sky. The second floor’s living room and the third floor’s study are positioned at the south-east corner, whose elevation is broadly open, allowing a plenty of natural light to come in.

 Floor Plan

为了给人一种平静的感觉，用鲜艳的砖块作为房子的主要材料。它也补充了有限的水平开放，同时减轻了一个视觉上的不一致，这可能是由于一个强烈的形式的截面在东南角。面对道路的墙壁是一种碎混凝土和红色雪松百叶窗的混合物，提供了一个幻想的墙的深度。这样，房子及其周围的墙壁与周围的环境相互作用，同时，平静地坐在自己的土地上。

Bright colored bricks are used as a main material of the house in order to give a sense of placidity. It also supplements the limited horizontal opening, while alleviating a visual incongruity which might have been occurred due to a strong form of section on the south-east corner. The wall facing the road is a mixture of chipping concrete and red cedar louvers, offering an illusionary depth of the wall. In such way, the house and its surrounding walls are interacting with the neighboring environment, while at the same time, calmly sitting on its own land.

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Architects OBBA

Location Seoul, South Korea

Category Houses

Architect in Charge Sojung Lee & Sangjoon Kwak

Design Team Sangbo Park, Daae Kim, Jaeho Kim, Hojae Lee, Seok Choi

Project Year 2015

Photographs Kyungsub Shin