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A varied group of buildings have been built where once stood a Diesel Engine Factory in Changchun, China. Designed by Beijing & Seoul based architects CHIASMUS, redevelopment of the site focused on the preservation of the existing spatial experience over the actual buildings. The result is a neighborhood that remembers its industrial past through its scale, layout and materials.

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In many ways the conversion of the old factory site in Changchun is a typical post-industrial redevelopment that includes saving some exemplar buildings and adding contemporary functions. These former factories seldom have a lasting architectural quality, but in spatial and dogmatic organization they represent a defining age in China worth keeping.

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Located in North-East China, Changchun - sometimes called the “Detroit of China” because of its automotive industry – has been an important industrial city for the last 100 year. The site is on the border of Changchun’s city center, one block east of the Yitsong river.

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Standing next to the East expressway the project is on a visually prominent position among a monoculture of new residential towers. By introducing a varied architectural group of buildings and functions organized around a pedestrian street CHIASMUS created a memorable civic space for nearby residents.

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James Wei Ke said: “With this project we developed a successful evolutionary neighborhood. The fact that a former industrial center can be transformed into a case study of how work and life can be combined in this post-industrial era represents a small triumph for the developer and the city.

Developed by Vanke in subsequent stages since 2011, each building was developed as an interdependent element. Representation is found in the materiality of the buildings: steel for the old factory, brick for the offices and plaster for the residential tower. A returning visual feature is the customized windows with high insulation glass that provide the buildings with a generous amount of daylight inside while deeper indoors intimate spaces allow for more privacy. This concept complements a variety of spatial qualities and creates comfortable places to work and live.

Chiasmus Partners is an atelier office founded in New York City in 2005. It is now based in Beijing and Seoul.

CHIASMUS

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This Recently completed Deep House (House with Deep Wall) is the culmination of 6-year-long pursuit and determination of its architect Homin Kim. Credit for successful completion of the daunting task goes to Kim’s ambitious vision to situate a modern and practical residence in challenging landscape backed by unwavering support and trust of the client. Most striking feature of the Deep House is its roof, slanted at an angle, which streamlines flawless as walls as a single unit.

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By opting against conventional use of the concept of roof and eaves and adopting exterior stone louvers, volume of the Deep House is dispersed in shallow depth throughout. Hollow space created underneath the slanted roof and the vertical walls is designed to serve not only as a layer of insulation improving the energy efficiency but also extra storage space.

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Another noticeable feature of the Deep House is its use of corner windows. Once the layout of the rooms was confirmed, corners of the rooms were left exposed by installing box-type windows. Rooms and the size of corner windows were strategically laid out to allow maximum benefit of the spectacular scenery from inside while minimizing adverse impact of chilly winter draft.

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It also manifests the most important element of spatial concept: micro space. Corner windows are ‘window space’ but also creates ‘room inside room’ not separated by any physical boundary of walls. The room may appear as one space, but we can clearly perceive that an independent space exists there. Kim was aware of people’s inclination to find corner space cozy and useful regardless of the size of their homes, and he wanted to utilize that instinct.

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Deep House project was a process of searching creative solutions to work around seemingly conflicting elements such as efficiency and style, function and form and necessity and redundancy. Factors that may seem irrelevant are assigned with critical functions in greater context. Kim highlighted that the Deep House project was his attempt to challenge the dogma of modernism that “Form follows Function” and propose creative alternatives.

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Architects : poly.m.ur Location : Seoul, South Korea Architect in Charge : Homin Kim Design Team : Sunki Hwang, Hyunju Lim Area : 647.71 m2 Project Year : 2016 Manufacturers : Rheinzink, Lime, pine-wood Contractor : Ean R&C Structural Engineer : Thekujo

Poly.m.ur

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Private Houses Yeonhui-dong, Seoul, South Korea - Build completed in 2015

Marimba house is a residence and a studio for three musicians. The given site is one of four lots the client has from the beginning moment of the formation of Yeonhee village of which habitants are mostly of upper-middle class. The four lots are between two parallel streets to which each two lots are aligned. We proposed, for the beginning, a master plan for all of four lots conceiving it as a whole family cluster. This project is the first step of the whole.

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We decided to make the house of wooden structure. The fast completion of the structure was one reason and the ideal solution as an acoustic resolution was another. In the masterplan suggested, on angles of each lot we put a cube mass which meets a slowly inclined pitched roof on two sides cut obliquely on the plan so that when the cluster will be completed would create a well defined courtyard at the center.

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The cube contains lesson rooms on ground floor and three bed rooms on the second floor, plus a small terrace to make a compact private atmosphere. In the meantime, under the pitched roof, a large multi-use space is connected to the living room by stairs.

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The wooden structure is not evident from outside. Ironically we used the cement bricks for the lower part of the pitched roof space and the drivit for the cube. Being conscious of the fact that the red bricks which was very popular materials in the sixties and seventies are dominant in the whole village, we had the drivit painted in strong red_brick colour . A subtle interplay in materials and colours with circumstances we wanted.

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On the other hand, in the interior space of the house, wooden materials are overwhelming. A 1.8m wide wooden louver was laid along the whole length facing the garden in 2.2m height in the way that it roles as a spatial and visual device to put in relationships between the inner and outer spaces. The obliquely cut away part on the plan for the future courtyard is substituted with a large wooden deck to continue into the inner space alluding the wooden finishings of interior spaces.

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The cube meets the pitched roof on two sides. Alongside the whole length, we put the narrow top-lights to make the two different volume evidential and to give the natural lights to the deep inside. The white wall of the cube is supposed to be strongly washed by sun lights at a certain moment of the day.

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Korean upper-middle class village usually has high and strong walls along the streets and neighbors for their privacy. To give a visual breath to neighbors keeping privacy at the same time we needed a specific wall solution. We proposed a thin metal louver arrayed obliquely in 100mm distance with different heights according to the situations. A dense rhythm to the street was another gain.

design team l Kim min ji location l yeonhui-dong, seodaemun-gu, seoul type l architecture, new construction principal use l residential status l completed completion date l 2015 total floor area l 369.91m2 photo l Jongoh Kim

ISON Architects







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