S-HOUSE by Yuusuke Karasawa Architects

S-HOUSE

a project by Yuusuke Karasawa Architects

Oomiya, Saitama, Japan, completed 2013

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There is modern architecture and there is avant-garde. Tokyo-based Yuusuke Karasawa Architects designed a glazed, split-level house in Japan’s Saitama prefecture that explores the owner’s interest in the networks formed by space and nature.

Philosophy and architecture are certainly no strangers, but rarely does a scenario play out where a client finds an architect who can fully express the client’s life’s work through the design for a single-family home. Such is the case with the S-House in Omiya, in the Saitama Prefecture of Japan. The client is a professor of what he terms “network philosophy.” An acolyte of French philosopher Michel Serres, he studies the interconnections between humans and nature.

SEONDONG CULTURAL & WELFARE CENTER by UnSangDong Architects

SEONDONG CULTURAL & WELFARE CENTER

a project by UnSangDong Architects

Seoul, South Korea, completed 2012

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From the Architect:

The city is required the concept of urban regeneration which renews the abandoned and polluted environment. The current concept of urban regeneration is well used as the strategies of new town development. It has the meaning of creating rehabilitation and revival of urban environment, industry, economy, and the culture by providing new programs and physical architectural environments to the decaying existing cities. Rather than simple architectural esthetic controls, new composition of circulation system, which induces new transformation of environment, is required. It has been developed in the direction of cultural device and the community of governance concept to improve the quality of city dwellers’ life.