Forest of Grid

This is a 6-story housing complex built in a shopping street. 

We considered the meaning of ‘living together’, and tried to connect the housing with city by designing public spaces.I want to make a plaza with trees where residents feel nature such as light,wind, and rain and so on and residents could enjoy each other.

The main concept is putting a court-like plaza into the public area where nature and the architecture stimulate each other. In a way, putting a forest into the city. 

Although the space is small, it would be a small universe where they would feel various spatial experiences and feel a joy of living with nature

My image was that cloud-like walls fold housing units made of grids. In order to bring a harmonic rhythm into the daily life of the residents, I inserted uniform grid. 

The rigid grids express order and calmness in the spaces of this housing.

The housing is consists of grid frames of square columns and beams and two walls. The court is placed between the two walls, and stairs are put around the court. 

By putting the court in the route from the entrance hall to the stairs, residents always feel nature. I placed plaza with bench of exposed concrete in the 2nd floor next to the stair. 

Court and plaza connected by the stair stimulate the everyday life of the residents and illustrate their life.

I intended to make these spaces open to the city to inspire the context nearby and contribute to the urban life. The curved wall surround the court is a node of the housing and the city. 

Through the hole digged in the wall,residents see the city and people outside the apartment can see the trees in the court. 

The column is inserted into the court, and it integrate architecture and nature.

The outer walls are freed from the grids, so light and wind go through the housing units from tall sashes. A satisfactory habitability can be expected from the use of these walls.

The sky is framed by the walls of the court is like’ one's own sky’ for the residents, and also this typical sky could be viewed from the people outside the housing. 

In other way, the court is a node between the housing and the city.

This was an attempt to expand living spaces and to make an environment softly connects it with the city by creating public spaces which are open to the city.