YONGSAN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DISTRICT “PROJECT...

YONGSAN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DISTRICT “PROJECT R6”
Seoul, Korea

CLIENT Dreamhub Project Financing Vehicle Co., Ltd.

PROGRAM 47,800 m² (514,500 sf) of luxury housing for short-term residents, 27,000 m² (290,600 sf) of retail, and 929 parking stalls

AREA 115,500 m² (1,240,000 sf)

CONSTRUCTION BUDGET Confidential

STATUS Commenced 2011; completed Schematic Design 2012; completion expected 2016

DESIGN ARCHITECT REX

KEY PERSONNEL Tiago Barros, Adam Chizmar, Danny Duong, Luis Gil, Gabriel Jewell-Vitale, Seok Hun Kim, Armen Menendian, Romea Muryń, Roberto Otero, Se Yoon Park, Joshua Prince-Ramus, Lena Reeh Rasmussen, Yuan Tiauriman

EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT Mooyoung

CONSULTANTS Barker Mohandas,Buro Happold,Front,Level Acoustics,Magnusson Klemencic,Scape,Shen Milsom Wilke,Tillotson Design

-YIBD “Project R6” is an urban boutique residence for short-term business people, young urban professionals, and foreign residents. Due to the transience of its target users and the short durations during which they are home, R6’s unit sizes are small, including 40 m², 50 m², and
60 m² residences, with the majority being 40 m².

-To meet the trends of its users and compensate for its small unit size, R6 must engender a strong sense of community and its residences must be highly attractive, providing generous views, daylight, and cross-ventilation. Maximizing daylight and cross-ventilation are also paramount to providing a highly sustainable residence.

-In a standard housing tower, 40 m² to 60 m² units would create poorly dimensioned and oppressive residences, offering constrained views, little daylight, and poor ventilation, and community would be limited to activities at the tower’s base.

-By pulling blocks of the typical housing tower in opposing directions, the small units maintain their size, but are stretched into favorable proportions that provide views and daylight from both sides, excellent cross-ventilation, and a strong sense of community through the creation of a central courtyard, roof terraces, and conversation/reading/play pods.

The stretched blocks are strategically positioned to guarantee unobstructed daylight into all units, and to create adequate continuity of the building’s primary structure: a concrete-encased steel mega-brace that encircles the courtyard.

-The mega-brace supports a shelf-like matrix of walls and floor slabs that define each unit.

-Into each shelf is inserted a wooden shell containing a bathroom on one side and a kitchen on the other.

A movable wall—using standard compact shelving technology—shifts within the unit to define a bedroom (adjacent to the bathroom) or a living room (adjacent to the kitchen).

-The wall includes a bed, nightstands, couch, television mount, task lights, and storage.

-A high-performance façade—composed of frameless, triple-glazed IGUs with two surfaces of low-E coatings—emphasizes the remarkable exterior views, while interior black-out and shade roller blinds control sunlight and glare.

-The floor to ceiling interior façade—also composed of frameless IGUs and equipped with black-out and shade roller blinds—provides spatial relief and a sense of community, while maintaing privacy.

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