The ‘Mini House’ located on Guro-dong has 3 story with its gross floor area of 72.28 sqm. It is literally ‘Tiny Little House’. The site takes 68 sqm facing 8m front road, and steep cliff of 8m at the back. It has an available built area boundary of 3m in width and 13m in length when apply offset guideline which is just enough to fit 2 sets of standard staircases.

The task given at hand in planning aspect was design a ‘Share House’ for 3 people in such a confined site, and create space where enables natural sunlight with privacy which was challenging in unfavorable condition of slender site very close to the adjacent building.

The ideas that we’ve come up with was having ‘Skip Floor’ structure, and applying ‘Polycarbonate multi-cell panel’ conventionally called as danpalon. Optimizing spatial efficiency and maximizing natural sunlight were secured by central staircase to where allocate space program in every half floor, and apply wall in the southeast with semi-transparent danpalon.

Having this wall which penetrates light into somewhat delicate and skylight create a warm atmosphere and minimize cramped condition of the interior space of just over 2m in width.

The limited site, steep cliff at rear, and the adjacent building became again difficulties in construction phase. Building with standard construction method was impractical and unfeasible due to the limited place for loading construction materials and working space, and the complaints cause by this could lead directly to negative effects on construction period and increase in overall cost.

We’ve given a great thought on these issues, and decided to try with applied construction method known as ‘Modular House’. This applied method, fabricating the most of parts in remote factory, assembling and finishing at on-site, can be a solution to reduce construction period and cost. This is how we’ve break through the constraints of the extremely limited site condition.

1st Floor Plan, 2nd Floor Plan, 3rd Floor Plan

2013 / Share House Location : Guro-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul, Korea Site Area : 68.00 sqm Gross Floor Area : 72.28 sqm Building Scope : 3F Design : AIN Group (Choi Younghee, Cho Kwangje, Lee Sangdeok, Choi Younwoo) Photographs : Cho Jaeuk, Choi Younghee

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