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Triplet Code_Sinsa
Yongkwan Kim

Triplet Code_Sinsa

Located not far from Garosu-gil, "Triplet Code, Sinsa" is located right in front of a neighborhood park with a small green space at the end of Serosu-gil. This site faces the park and is adjacent to an elementary school, and neighborhood stores connected from Garosu-gil are active to the surrounding alleys. Like Perry's "Nearin District Theory," an American sociologist, "Elementary School," "Nearin Shop," and "Small Park Facilities" are all around the core programs of physical convenience and comfort of residents' lives, so at first glance, it may seem that the conditions for residents are well equipped. However, the recent excessive expansion of nearby commercial facilities will not feel like a pleasant residential environment for residents. Rather, as Garosu-gil became more prosperous, the phenomenon of gentlification of residents was predicted.

photo_credit Yongkwan Kim
Yongkwan Kim

Due to the nature of neighborhood living facilities, which programs will move in during the design process, but reinterpreting the surrounding codes and devising a spatial strategy to induce specific facilities to be attracted according to the nature of each floor was the most important reason for proposing the triplet code.

Since the park is located right in front of the ground on the lower floor, it was a little disappointing to place an open space like a cafe only on the first floor. A mezzanine was hung on the second floor of the high-rise ground floor space to provide a double-layered open space to actively open the street and allow deep light to enter the interior through the glass. The lower floor, which is open in two floors facing the resident park, was designed to operate as an exhibition and display showroom. The staircase hall also has a straight staircase to make it feel like it is open to the park view from the inside to the outside, and to attract people's eyes from the street to the inside through a high-open entrance approach form from the outside to the inside.

photo_credit Yongkwan Kim
Yongkwan Kim

The third floor between the closed upper floor volume and the transparent lower floor serves to clearly share the contrast up and down, while also placing a terrace with a view of the park so that it can be fully opened to the folding glass. In particular, the terrace created a deep shadow between the two volumes so that the opening was relatively emphasized by the heavy mass and dark color of the upper part, and even though it was a three-story space, commercial facilities were allowed to enjoy looking down on the park in front of it.

photo_credit Yongkwan Kim
Yongkwan Kim

Since the upper floor consisting of four and five floors was arranged with free space from the next building due to diagonal restrictions, an open inner terrace was placed to induce an independent office to be used as a double-decker.
The upper part, which is used as a work space, opens the north side to a terrace and closes to the side of the road to emphasize the open feeling of the lower part. Part of the metal façade is open to stimulate curiosity to show a little of the curved volume of the terrace and spiral stairs on the inner rooftop.

photo_credit Yongkwan Kim
Yongkwan Kim

From the beginning of the design, the space was planned by establishing an open strategy to divide the prediction of rental demand into low, middle and upper floors and to lease the entire building. Fortunately, in the process of renting, companies that first launch electric motorcycle stores came in, and the 3rd floor was used as cafes and the 4th and 5th floors as offices, resulting in rental results that fit the design plan's intentions. As such, the three-tier stacking combination designed to adapt to the surrounding environment reacts in this different way depending on the characteristics of each of the low, middle, and upper floors, naturally creating a stacking combination.

photo_credit Yongkwan Kim
Yongkwan Kim
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