Jisan-Dong 989-6 Defamiliarization, South Korea residential building, Korean architecture design images
Jisan-Dong 989-6 Defamiliarization in Daegu
3 December 2024
Architecture: 09A
Location: Jisandong 989-6, Suseong-gu, Daegu, Republic Of Korea
Photos: 50BELL
Jisan-Dong 989-6 Defamiliarization, South Korea Building
The Client’s Needs
The Jisan-Dong 989-6 Defamiliarization clients are a family with three children. They wanted to provide ancillary income by renting out the lower floors for commercial use alongside their own residence in the city centre. In a dense surrounding context of 3-4 storey buildings, the building needed to be different and special, with a public area for commerce and a private area for the family, while at the same time being different from its surroundings, as they believed this would make their home more special and the rental more profitable.
The Architect’s Strategy
The architect convinced the clients of what is special. The architect proposed that the building should not stand out by being different from its surroundings and attract attention, but rather appear as a defamiliarization amongst the familiarity of its surroundings. He borrowed Viktor Shklovsky’s concept of ‘defamiliarization’. Just as the feeling of defamiliarization does not come from the new, but from the familiar, the ‘unfamiliar appearance’ starts from the everyday appearance of the neighbourhood.
Jisan-dong 989-6 is an architectural composition that is a contemporary interpretation of the neighbourhood in a way of defamiliarization. The composition is composed of the forms of the surrounding buildings, which are uniformed by the restrictions of regulations, the gable roofs built in different ways over time, the horizontal elevations created by the balconies and terrace extensions of the surrounding buildings, and the unfamiliar feeling of material thickness. This composition recalls the sense of an everyday neighbourhood that is no longer unfamiliar and restores its original freshness.
The Form
The legal daylighting restriction does not apply below the third floor and 9m in height, so all neighbour buildings have a three-floor volume and roof. Jisan-dong 989-6 uses the restriction on sunlight rights, with a bold roof and a two-stories volume, creating an unfamiliar sense of proportion, while the generous ground floor makes the neighbourhood more welcoming.
The Roof
Inspired by the roof shapes of various neighbouring buildings that have been layered over time, the gabled roof responds to its surroundings with a minimalist flatness and three bends, creating an unfamiliar sense of proportion.
Horizontal Elevation
The horizontal elevation, created by the balcony and terrace extensions of the neighbouring residential buildings, is another motif of the building, acting as an important functional, proportional and decorative division between the lower and upper floors.
Density of Volume
The unusual thickness of the envelope of the surrounding buildings, created by placing windows as far outwards as possible to maximise interior space, obscures the sense of thickness of the material and creates an unfamiliar feeling of building density. In this project, all the envelopes are laid flat to create an unfamiliar feeling of the weight of the material.
Jisan-Dong 989-6 Defamiliarization in South Korea – Building Information
Architecture: 09A – http://www.09a.kr/
Title: jisan-dong 989-6_defamiliarization
Completion Year: 2023
Gross Built Area : 630 sqm
Project Location: jisandong 989-6, suseong-gu, daegu, republic of korea
Program : retail, office and residential
Architect
Office Director : Taehwan Kim, b.1990
Office email: [email protected]
Office Location: walter-benjamin-platz 5, 10629 berlin, germany
Photography: 50BELL
Website: 50bell.com
E-mail: [email protected]
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Location: Jisandong 989-6, Suseong-gu, Daegu, South Korea, East Asia
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