Aoa Architects

Cascade House

Cascade House
© Hyosook Chin

CASCADE HOUSE

Aoa Architects

ARCHITECTS
Aoa Architects

MANUFACTURERS
Ikea, DOMUS METAL, Total Marble, Varon Materials, dbdb studio

PROJECT TEAM
Jaewon Suh, Euihaing Lee, Uk Sunwoo

CONTRACTOR
Coworkers Construction Inc.

PHOTOGRAHS
Hyosook Chin, Jaewon Suh

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Mapo-gu, South Korea

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

It is no exaggeration to say that most multi-family houses in the neighborhoods are the results of the auto-generative form by building regulations such as the solar setback requirements and by the economic inevitability to accommodate as many units as possible on relatively small land.

Cascade House
© Hyosook Chin
Cascade House
© Hyosook Chin

Thus the form is difficult to understand, the structure is dislocated and space becomes stifling. The result is left to the tenants, and it is still difficult to rent a decent house where a table can find its right place.

Cascade House is a proposal of life for five families, consisting of rooms arranged familiar in symmetry thus easy to understand.

Cascade House
© Hyosook Chin
Cascade House
© Jaewon Suh

Houses on the 2nd, 3rd floor have secured the comfort of the living room by separating dining & kitchen independently from LDK, an economic product of the past modernism, while the bedroom is loosely divided with the living room.

This is done through a marble pillar and two wooden sliding doors dividing the living room, kitchen and bedroom at the center of the house.

Cascade House
© Hyosook Chin
Cascade House
© Hyosook Chin

As a result, being split around the marble pillar in the living room, the spatial juxtaposition of the kitchen and the bedroom becomes somewhat surrealistic like a drama set.

Also the pattern of the wooden sliding doors and the vein of the marble pillar complete a decorative character.

Cascade House
© Jaewon Suh
Cascade House
© Hyosook Chin
Cascade House
© Hyosook Chin

The symmetrical figure of cascade is a kind of question of the asymmetrical form generated by building regulation and brings various analogies such as Belgian stepped gable, acorn tree, red cactus or the game Minecraft.

The red tiles and white tile joint surrounding the entbackground-color: rgba(212, 193, 185, 1)ire external wall, rustic stones on the corner and decorative details around the windows are a satirical homage of the common neighborhood typology.


Cascade House
© Hyosook Chin
Cascade House
© Hyosook Chin
Cascade House
© Hyosook Chin
Cascade House
© Hyosook Chin


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Cascade House
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Cascade House
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