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 […]
“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 […]
Please join us for Jinhee Park’s lecture ‘Micro-Urbanism,’ at Princeton University School of Architecture. “As our cities rapidly densify it is undeniable that we now need new forms of urbanism to address new demands. How can a conception of not only provide efficient space and economical value but also flexibility for changing demographics and social […]
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 […]
New York, NY Designed for a loft where flexibility has to be maximized, horizontally adjustable shelving (rather than vertically adjustable) allows for fluid changes. As different users with different needs use the space, a variety of scales and objects types can be quickly accommodated. Or different moods can be created from organized to whimsically curate. […]
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.” […]
Seoul, Korea The repetitive mid-rise apartment block is the dominant form of residential building in Korea and other dense cities. First introduced in the time of a national-scale housing shortage, building techniques that efficiently ‘pack’ units against a standardized solar exposure while expediting construction time were implemented, arguably offsetting what could have been a much […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
Excerpts from Jinhee Park’s conversation with Sangho Kim about the design inspiration behind our recent Songpa Micro Housing. Featured in Junglim Foundation’s Architecture Newspaper, Jinhee discusses her concept of ‘Tapioca Space,’ and how subtle degrees of public and private spaces are necessary within density. Please stay tuned for further publications and exhibitions featuring the finished […]
We are very much looking forward to visiting Australia for a series of lectures on our topic of Micro-Urbanism. This will be the first showing of our just completed Songpa Micro-Housing and Cultural Center. Please join us for one of the following dates: The University of Queensland School of Architecture Speaker: Jinhee Park When: Tue […]
