South korea

 Achime Bagel is a small bakery located in Munjeong-dong, Seoul, conceived around the idea of beginning the day well. The project started from a simple thought: freshly baked bagels, made with good ingredients and handed over in a small but pleasant space, could be enough to create a meaningful morning experience. Achime Bagel follows a daily production and same-day sales principle, and we wanted this straightforward and sincere attitude to naturally appear in the space. Donggyu Kim Donggyu Kim Donggyu Kim Donggyu Kim The open kitchen became the central scene of the project. Rather than hiding the production process, we exposed the early-morning preparation, baking, and movement of the staff. The activity of prepa... More

In this modern society we are living in, 'multi' purpose prevails. People have a concept like Multi Persona, and space is even more so. A house becomes a cafe, a bookstore becomes a bar, and a department store becomes a gallery. Billi Seoul can be seen as a club or a lounge bar, but it has a hidden side of it. As a startup in NFT business, the client needed an offline space for activities such as exhibiting and selling NFT products. Mingu Kang In addition, the client hoped that it would not only function as NFT exhibition hall, but also a meeting space and F&B space for drinking, listening and watching; combined together. Billi Seoul is a complex space functioning as an experimental place to embrace the diversity of the platform.... More

A leading Korean bank, Hana Bank, asked Professor Seuk Hoon Kim of Hanyang University and Studio Eccentric to design an exclusive bank space for their highest net worth individual clients in an old and affluent neighborhood Dogok-dong in Gangnam, south of the river in Seoul. Realizing private banking is underpinned by personal service, ranging from holiday booking to financial programs to support the next generation, the design team decided to center on modest and understated Korean hospitality. Mingu Kang Mingu Kang The Design Concept – ‘Aesthetic of Korean Moderation’-Embodying the traditional Korean aesthetics of modesty and understated mind in hospitality, the design offers a calm yet profound spatial experi... More

52 Market Place is the all-day-dining restaurant located in voco Seoul Myeongdong, Seoul, South Korea. The design team's intention was to draw visitors' attention and consider the connectivity of the space by arranging intense, patterned floor finishes and furniture along with warm wood along the central axis. Kiwoong Hong Kiwoong Hong Studio Eccentric More

There is a place where people of Seoul may have heard at least once when they think of Cheongnyangri District, which is Gyeongdong Market. It is Seoul’s largest traditional market since 1960, and it naturally started by the trade of herbal medicines that came from all parts of the country to this particular transportation hub area. As you enter the center of the market, you can find at a glance a very unique red brick building. Mingu Kang The two-story building was originally built in 1955 for the purpose of a cow feed warehouse; five years before the Gyeongdong Market was established. The building was once the center of this market, where merchants came in and out every day, but gradually was abandoned and forgotten over time.... More

Arirang Dowon: Born at the Boundary of the Ordinary and the Extraordinary When we first located the land at "603 Tongsam-ri," we began to contemplate. If someone were to visit this place during an ordinary day, how could we spatially express the boundary between the ordinary and the extraordinary? Caption Arirang Dowon is situated on a seemingly ordinary road, appearing from the outside as an unremarkable, factory-like building. However, the moment one steps inside, an entirely different world unfolds. To emphasize this moment of transition, we designed a water wall on the front façade. The flow of water serves as a boundary between the ordinary and the extraordinary, offering visitors a visual delight and a sense of calm.... More

The space flourishes and becomes clear and rich when various elements within it establish relationships and are visualized. While subjective, finding the expected comfort in places commonly referred to as large cafes can be challenging when visited in person. This difficulty stems from the absence of relationships among elements in the space and the lack of purpose. Kim Donggyu Kim Donggyu 502 Coffee Roasters, a key player in the start of the Korean specialty coffee market since 2009, expanded its existing cafe and roastery center to a new location in Nangok-ri, Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. Spanning approximately 6,500 square meters, the space consists of three buildings designated for a cafe, roastery, and education. Design studio... More

The contemporary Korean-French fine dining restaurant, "Confier," already well-known for its exceptional cuisine and performances in Dosan Park, has recently opened its doors near Seoul Station. Kim Donggyu Kim Donggyu Kim Donggyu Stof focused on applying and visualizing Confier's perspective on gastronomy, which seeks to "experience new tastes and visual food, showcasing the process of food becoming a work of art," within the spatial sequences. In theater, the virtual wall between the audience and the stage is referred to as the "fourth wall," and when the boundaries between the audience and the stage blur, it's called "breaking the fourth wall." With this concept, Stof aimed to encapsulate the creation of beautiful cuisine... More

Gathering, building a house, and living there together is like a dream of our life. Be that as it may, we are witnessing more and more houses are built for various purposes over time. Nevertheless, it is too difficult to gather all potential occupants so as for them to build a house by reflecting all opinions and needs of themselves. Particularly, any house where many families gather to live in downtown must be built as a multi-household housing type which is commonly called a “villa” in Korea. These houses often boil down to monotonous buildings by the land size, circumstances, or construction cost. For all that, “Mo-yeo-ga,” (which means a “Gathering House”) is to fulfill the romantic dream of a house i... More

The Godeok Internationalization Planning District is a 13,419,000m2 residential area and an industrial complex of 3,928,000m2. Based on Pyeongtaek Port and Samsung Industrial Complex, it is planned as a pivotal high-tech industrial complex in the southern part of the capital. The rise of needs, an industry demand linked to a large manufacturing-related company called Samsung, is creating a lot of office building to cope with demand from suppliers. Among them, the building maximizes its awareness by placing office facilities near roads with high visibility.   With differentiated elevation design, the digital concept of the state-of-the-art era has been raised to realize the symbolic landmark of Pyeongtaek Godeok Internationalization... More

This is a house of multi-cultural family of Korea and Vietnam. It’s a house that has the biggest area of 6 house and two families parents, children, and marriage couple, total of 7 people will live. Considering two families parents’ line of flow, no private space for marriage couple before, no bathroom for the children, we agonize how to arrange the space.    Persimmon We changed the house arrangement several times to save the persimmon that grandfather planted 50 years ago. Persimmon shows the history of the land and the scenery was saved.    Promenade There’s a wide range of lines inside and outside the house where you can experience various interior and exterior space, applying Le Corbusier&rsq... More