Time is trapped in space, yet space has lost time.

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Architects: UnSangDong Architects

Location: Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Design: Kim Min Kyun

Project Team: Jang Yoon Gyoo, Shin Chang Hoon, Kim Mi Jung

Area: 125.2 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Sergio Pirrone

Building Coverage Ratio: 49.23%

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From the architect. Time is trapped in space, yet space has lost time.Time and space can?t exist alone so does humans.

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Walls, the most structural and architectural element, are used to define a living space. Walls run across spaces and create disconnected or fragmented places while providing experiences and situations reshaped under a chronotope-ic setting. Chronotope can be explained as a measure to integrate time and space through a combination of varying surfaces and an intersection of axis. Here architectural walls are not working as a disconnecting or dividing tool but rather as a frame for concurrent spaces and continuous time to support their integration and continuation. For such separation among family members or its dissolution in modern society, we blame severed wall compositions and so try to reconstruct a spatial structure enhancing human relationships to restore communication in families.
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Communication among family membersWith a faith that archit...