City as Domain
The project began in Seochon by mapping activities that exceeded the places assigned to them: sitting on thresholds, storing objects in alleys, crossing roofs, and extending domestic routines into shared space. This revealed a gap between legal ownership and actual use.
Historical Korean housing types were compared with the fixed rooms and corridors of contemporary plans. From that comparison, I developed two spatial categories—Purpose Spaces and Rooms—and used the toe-maru as a rule for negotiating between them.
The rule was tested across three scales. At the micro scale, a threshold supports multiple domestic uses; at the meso scale, adjacent households share circulation and open space; at the macro scale, rooftops connect into a continuous civic ground.
The proposal does not erase private boundaries. It thickens them, allowing public, common, and private life to overlap through specific architectural elements rather than through an abstract claim of openness.
The project began in Seochon by mapping activities that exceeded the places assigned to them: sitting on thresholds, storing objects in alleys, crossing roofs, and extending domestic routines into shared space. This revealed a gap between legal ownership and actual use.
Historical Korean housing types were compared with the fixed rooms and corridors of contemporary plans. From that comparison, I developed two spatial categories—Purpose Spaces and Rooms—and used the toe-maru as a rule for negotiating between them.
The rule was tested across three scales. At the micro scale, a threshold supports multiple domestic uses; at the meso scale, adjacent households share circulation and open space; at the macro scale, rooftops connect into a continuous civic ground.
The proposal does not erase private boundaries. It thickens them, allowing public, common, and private life to overlap through specific architectural elements rather than through an abstract claim of openness.
