The site is a small land (44.62m2) with an irregular shape located at a sharp intersection of two frontal roads in a congested urban residential area.

The client had three requests: Firstly it should be exciting architecture. Secondly they wanted a maximum livable volume. Thirdly they wanted a covered car parking.

In terms of building codes, this house has to comply with three different height restriction lines, therefore the maximum buildable volume becomes a very irregular polyhedron volume. From this form we came up with an image of a piece of mineral that is buried in the ground. The shaping process was like a cutting process of a precious gemstone- we worked with most precision to ‘cut’ the volume to create maximum living space in a beautiful volume like a diamond.