Moon Hoon

Mars Multi Use Building

Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook

MARS MULTI USE BUILDING

Moon Hoon

ARCHITECTS
Moon Hoon

AREA
151 m²

YEAR
2020

LOCATION
Hwaseong, South Korea

PHOTOGRAPHS
Kim Changmook

MECHANICAL/ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Chung-hyo

CATEGORY
Mixed Use Architecture, Landmarks & Monuments

CLIENT
Chung-hyo

CONSTRUCTION
CNC Construction

Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook

The Plot: Hwaseong is a city near Seoul. Hwaseoung is a pronoun, but shares the same sound as Mars in Korean, Thus the name “Mars” for the project. The Building is located in the middle of a new urban development within Hwaseong city.

Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook

This part is relatively new and vacant, almost barren, with a stretch of imagination, evoking some kind of foreign landscape in the planet of Mars.

Client: The Client is sometimes very pivotal in the design direction. He is indeed an individual with a distinct desire to have something that is not ordinary or ubiquitous. He desired a multi-purpose building which contains his house, two houses for rental usage and commercial space also for rent.

Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook

His demand was focused on coming up with a design that does not show any kind elements of conventional housing.

Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook

Concept: The mobile Habitat(Mars Station) with caterpillar became the initial design concept. Each floor is independent and has unique geometry evoking movement and imaginary context. They are stacked and conjoined like 3d puzzles, especially angled floor slabs which also behave as rooves provide illusory experience of different gravity.

Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook

Plans: The 1st floor is rectangular and open, providing flexibility for commercial users. The 2nd floor contains Two houses. One has three bedrooms, while the other is one bedroom apartment. The 3bedroom house provides much flexibility and transparency through sliding doors.

The 3rd floor for the client is where, there is most freedom in the design and organization of rooms. The house was looked at as a small and symbolic universe where spaceships and planets are mingled haphazardly, evoking some kind of strange universe.

Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook

Sections: The 2nd, and 3rd floor slab, which are also the roof of 1st floor and 2nd floor respectively are not flat but angled and folded, which is very uncommon in general architecture.

Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook

It strives to provide two things, firstly dynamic spatial experience beyond the rectangular box, in spite of being in the vertically stacked space, secondly providing illusory spatial experience, where folded floors, provide false sensation of gravity.

Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook

The Sphere space on the 3rd floor mimics mini Pantheons or Boulle’s Spheres, which provide extra ordinary spatial experiences, within the context of a house.

Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook

Fantasies and Imaginations: The utilitarian aspect of Architecture is not ignored, but fulfilled. Where else can you go from there?

The Special client with the right architect can travel to the land of fantasies and imaginations, where names denotes other things, and where shapes evoke other dimensions and time.

Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook

I believe we have been doing this, by erecting houses for gods and other entities all throughout history.

The collective urges and desires have given way to individual inclinations and understandings, which can somehow expand the boundary of architecture to a whole new level of lightness and seriousness.

Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook


Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook
Mars Multi Use Building
© Kim Changmook


Mars Multi Use Building
Site Plan
Mars Multi Use Building
Attic Plan
Mars Multi Use Building
1st Floor Plan
Mars Multi Use Building
2nd Floor Plan
Mars Multi Use Building
3rd Floor Plan
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Roof Plan


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East Elevation
Mars Multi Use Building
West Elevation
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North Elevation
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South Elevation


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