VERTICAL GOLMOK Class project Fall 2012 | Yoon Woongwon Co-housing | Yeonamdong, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Concept circulation Site analysis on Yeonam village shows distinctive circulation system
Varying the level of housings creates dynamic movement through the building, and allows possibility of vertical housing
Vertical stack of housings with diverse unit types and distinctive circulation
Golmok and Jeong Yeonam-dong is located in the northwest part of Seoul where private houses were built in 1970s and 1980s by individual owners. Being planned by different owners, each house possess their own distinctive qualities. Meanwhile, the construction methods and measures were surprisingly similar since what Koreans call 'house sellers', constructors who built many houses with same technic and materials in low budget were prevalent. The characteristics of these houses and the blocks and villages they form are still apparent in the area. Each house shows different orientations, entrances, gardens which leads to different relationships towards the roads and the the neighborhood. These form of old Korean housing and block layout, referred as Golmok, is disappearing due to massively built highrise apartments and condos. While new living style is more convenient than Golmok, this form of living is more Korean like, meaning more involved and caring about neighbors, with the existence of Jeong, Korean concept of warm human affection. In other words, this Golmok system apparent in Yeonam-dong has quite original value of Korean society and neighborhood. This projects focuses on how this different relationships between housing units and the neighborhood can be translated into vertical, stackedup co-housing form. Breaking from former system of multi-story apartments and suggesting new form of vertical living space which reflects essence of Korean Goalmok is the goal of the project.
VERTICAL GOLMOK
Unit Prototypes
Large Family Unit Two floors with separate livingroom and kitchen on one floor, and private bedroom on the other floor.
Circulation System Each units are accessible from either first or the third floor where front and back gardens are located. This reflects the characteristics of goalmok, which is that houses on a row can have different directions of entrances and orientations. In typical vertical buildings, an apartment for example, circulation areas take up large portion of the total area and these areas are most of the time unoccupied. As the right diagram below shows, in the Vertical Golmok, houses can have different orientations and dynamic circulation. Houses will not have repetitive floor plan without distinctive characteristics. Also, each unit has its own green gardens at the entrance. Like in golmok, various and distinctive access and orientation converges into a block, the Vertical Golmok building.
Small Family Unit Two floors with separate livingroom and kitchen on one floor, and private bedroom on the other floor.
Small Family Unit 2 Single floor unit plan with two rooms and combined kitchen and livingroom with one bathroom.
Single Unit One bedroom and one bathroom with combined kitchen and livingroom on a single floor.
Studio Unit Combined studio with kitchen, livingroom, and bedroom with a bathroom on a single floor. Chanju Park | Portfolio 2018
Five different types of units and two approach direction, the first floor from the front and third floor from the back, allows various of different housing plans. In the Vertical Golmok, the total of nine different housing forns are included. Same colored units offer same user experiences. And housing plans with two floors can either be accessed from the lower floor or the upper floor, which distincs their types.
Unit Diversity
In the Vertical Golmok, five different basic types of floor plans exist. For two story plans, two different possiblities exist in vertically arranging the plans. And for all of those possibilities of floor plans and their arrangement, two different possibilities exist due to two types of circulation system. The combination of floor plan prototypes and circulation system, the Vertical Golmok provides wide variety of housings in a simple rectangular apartment building. Also, there are no hallways in the Vertical Golmok, each unit functions like a detached house with its own entrance and garden.
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Chanju Park | Portfolio 2018
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Social Mix and Unit Distribution Five different units are distributed to achieve social mix of families with different life styles.And the total of nine distinctive plan types are mingled into the Vertical Golmok. There are 19 units in total with 9 Large Family Units, 5 Small Family Units, 5 Single and Studio Units. This portion reflects the family types and populations of the Yeonam-dong where most of the living populations are families. Vertical Golmok uses the distinctive and dynamic circulation system to suggest unconventional interlock of units. While most of the vertical form of housings provide little chance of migle between different floors, this vertical Block allows vertical mix of units. The Vertical Golmok resembles the former mix and mingle of the Vertical Golmok where dynamic circulation enables villagers to interact with more people in the block.
Chanju Park | Portfolio 2018