Sinsa-dong Urban Residence

In a Sinsa-dong residential area of extremely high land efficiency, this is a development under more favorable feasibility than at present — an urban-type living house, a type then at the height of its boom.

Receiving the northern daylight restriction on a narrow road, the building narrows as it rises in a legally prescribed formal constraint; we sought to dispel the visual banality through the discontinuity of finishing materials.

Basalt brick and granite — relatively many materials coexist on a small scale, but they were separated and varied where possible to exclude any contrived element.