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Songpa Micro Housing Seoul, Korea | 2014 [우수 (Great) Prize, the 34th Seoul Architectural Award, Seoul] The Seoul Architectural Award has a mission to appreciate and encourage the public value of good architecture, which improves the quality of life as well as contributes to the development of building technology and architectural culture of Seoul. … [continue]
Living Small: Ideas for Living in the City Seattle, Washington | 2016 [Living Small: Ideas for Living in the City] SsD design Songpa Micro-Housing is featured in exhibition on micro-urbanism at AIA Seattle. As Seattle grows, how can housing design keep pace with the evolving ways we are living in cities? Is small housing … [continue]
Andamiro – Happy City Plaza Sejong, Korea | 2016 [Third Place Prize, National Agency for Administrative City Construction, Korea Land & Housing Corporation] The Happy City is Seoul’s new vision for 2030. Responding to the city’s spirit, Korea Land & Housing Corporation held multiple design competitions, including the Happy City Symbolic Plaza Competition. The problem with the current … [continue]
“The FAR Game: Constraints Sparking Creativity” The front line of the architectural battles waged in Korea inexorably runs through its capital city of Seoul. Korean architects may think they have the vision of field generals, but when handling their missions in Seoul, they are often asked to operate more like foot soldiers. The Korean … [continue]
In the Spring of 2015, Jinhee Park was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Her research-oriented design studio looked at applying the principles of ‘Micro Urbanism’ to Pyongyang North Korea, a city that is aggressively over-scaled in its Stalinist planning. Forecasting 30 years into the future when the now heavily fortified … [continue]
Please join Jinhee Park for her lecture ‘Micro-Urbanism’ for the Bridging the Utopian and the Pragmatic Lecture Series at the University of Auckland New Zealand. When: 27 May 2015 Wednesday 630pm Where: The University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning, ENG Theater 439, Building 401, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland City RSVP: Free via » … [continue]
Please join us for a presentation about the 2015 AIANY Design Awards “Best in Competition” project, Songpa Micro-Housing. Jinhee Park, Principal of SsD, will discuss the difficulties of building for a new urban typology and the lessons that can be translated from Seoul to New York City. Park will explore the social and economic factors … [continue]
We are pleased to announce that Songpa Micro-Housing has not only won an Honor Award from AIA New York’s Design Awards Program but has also received its ‘Best in Competition’ Award! On March 9th, a panel of seven architects, landscape architects, educators, critics and planners announced the 35 awards conferred in this year’s program. Out … [continue]
Songpa Micro-Housing was recently featured in Architecture and Culture Magazine in Korea. “라이프 스타일, 가족과 주거의 개념, 사회 가치 등이 빠르게 변화하는데, 그에 맞게 선택할 수있는 주거 공간은 아직 제한적이다…. 주거 공간이 그 변화에 따라 수축과 팽창을 같이 할 수 있다면 지속적인 주거가 가능하리라 생각한다. <송파 마이크로 하우징>을 통해서 그 가능성을 찾을 수 있었다.” … [continue]
Songpa Micro-Housing has recently been featured in Fastco Design: “In Seoul, South Korea, a new design for a small-scale housing community makes micro-living look a lot more tenable long term. The 14 units in Songpa Micro-Housing—a mixed-use building designed by SsD… can be combined and rearranged to accommodate life changes. Couples can rent units together. … [continue]
Following on their lecture at Waterloo School of Architecture, Jinhee Park and John Hong delve into the important role of cuteness in architecture using Miyazake Hiyao’s character Totoro as a launching point. Their essay ‘Totoro’s Sublime,’ is featured in the inaugural issue of Mole Magazine, published by Riverside Architectural Press and Waterloo School of Architecture. … [continue]
Songpa Micro Housing located in the burgeoning Jamsil district in Seoul, Korea has recently been completed and featured in the October issue of Architectural Record. “Although they used repetitive units and simple construction, Jinhee park and John Hong of SsD brought variety and style to the 5,500-square-foot project by animating the spaces in between and … [continue]
