The subterranean Tilt Roof House is set amid peaceful mountains and rice fields an hour east of Seoul in Korea. The house shows our understanding and consideration of "Ki", which is the traditional term for the universal energy that permeates through everything.

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Architects: BCHO Architects

Location: Jipyeong-myeon, Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Architect In Charge: Byoung Cho, So-jin Kang

Area: 161.78 m2

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Sergio Pirrone

Other Participants : Young-sung Jun, Sung-chul Hong

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From the architect. The subterranean Tilt Roof House is set amid peaceful mountains and rice fields an hour east of Seoul in Korea. The house shows our understanding and consideration of "Ki", which is the traditional term for the universal energy that permeates through everything.
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Tilt Roof House tries to respect the natural energy flow of the existing mountains and celebrates a primal relationship between experiential qualities of the surrounding nature and a building. By taking advantage of the steep slope around the site, the house blends with the topography and is partially embedded into the ground, while minimizing the excavatio...