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Shear House

Shear House

Shear House

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ARCHITECTS
STPMJ

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Duhang Engineering

PROGRAM
Single Family Residential

CLIENT
Private

CONSTRUCTION
On Group + Stpmj

PHOTOS
Yousub Song (9)

STATUS
Built

AREA
0 sqft - 1000 sqft

DIMENSION / AREA
25’x45’x20’ / 1200 Sf

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Yecheon-gun, South Korea

TYPE
Residential › Private House

Shear House, a single family house in Korea, seeks how a simple treatment in pitched roof typology improves environmental qualities and influences to program organization.

Shear House
Shear House

The volume of gable on the West end changes its placement along with body of house.

It projects out toward South at the East end, while maintaining its triangular shape.

The sheared volume is continuously pulled out towards South responding to sun orientation.

Shear House
Shear House
Shear House

It creates a deep eave in South and a terrace in North.

The eave blocks direct sunlight in summer and allow natural lighting in winter.

Shear House
Shear House

Openings at terrace in second level increase natural ventilation throughout the whole house.

In addition double skin-facade controls heat and humidity thus the house reduces 20% of heat gain and loss in summer and winter.

Shear House
Shear House

The house has two different ends, a typical gable end, and a sliced & shifted one in a monolithic structure and material.

(structural simplicity) Shear House adds a new scene on the existing landscape.

At the entrance of the town people face a typical gable wall.

Shear House
Shear House
Shear House

As they walk to the house entrance, they slowly recognize changes of eave and shadow and finally realize the sheared face at the entrance of the house.

Two bedrooms, bathroom, library, stair and kitchen are placed in North half of the house.

South half, a double height space, is a long and sculptured living room, which has generous multi-purpose space for client to invite many people in special occasions.

Shear House
Shear House
Shear House

The living room that goes through East end to West end, provides dynamic spatial qualities and light filtration in its depth and height with various visual connections.

Unlikely simple and static exterior, interior spaces provide playful experiences on changing geometries.

Though rooms are rectangular in plan, laid out on grid, walls are triangle, parallelogram, and trapezoid in elevation due to its intersection with shifted roof volume.

Shear House
Shear House
Shear House


Shear House
Shear House


Shear House
Shear House
Shear House
Shear House
Shear House
Shear House
Shear House

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