City as Domain
Must public space always exist at ground level, within clearly designated boundaries?
In Seoul's dense residential neighborhoods, rooftops belong to individual buildings yet accommodate a wide range of everyday activities, from storage and cultivation to rest and social interaction. City as Domain takes these patterns of occupation as a starting point, reconsidering the city not as a collection of isolated buildings connected by paths, but as a continuous territory shaped by relationships between people and space.
Inspired by the toe-maru, a transitional space in traditional Korean architecture, the project extends the domestic threshold into the vertical urban fabric. Existing rooftops are reconfigured and connected through bridges, shared platforms, and semi-exterior spaces, allowing private territories to gradually expand into collective environments. These spaces remain open to adaptation through everyday occupation.
City as Domain redefines publicness not simply through ownership or designated function, but through the relationships and negotiations that emerge between individual and collective life.
In Seochon, domestic life also extends into alleys and markets. Mapping these activities revealed a gap between legal ownership and everyday use. The proposal connects private rooms, toe-maru, shared courts, roofs, and bridges; Purpose Spaces and Rooms are linked through rules that support changing domestic routines. Adjoining households share circulation and open space as the network develops across scales.
Adaptive Living Patterns
Can Housing Adapt to the Ways We Live?
Housing Typology / Domestic Behavior / Spatial Adaptability
Why do standardized housing layouts assume similar patterns of living for different people?
Adaptive Living Patterns begins with the discrepancy between standardized Korean apartment typologies and the diverse ways residents inhabit domestic space. Questioning whether fixed room arrangements can adequately accommodate different routines, the project uses patterns of everyday behavior as a basis for reconsidering residential organization.
Through the analysis of behavioral archetypes and spatial use, conventional divisions between rooms and functions are reconstructed. Housing is understood not as a predetermined arrangement of programs, but as a spatial system capable of supporting different combinations of activities and relationships.
Adaptive Living Patterns explores a model of housing that responds to the ways people live, rather than requiring residents to conform to a fixed spatial framework.
Must public space always exist at ground level, within clearly designated boundaries?
In Seoul's dense residential neighborhoods, rooftops belong to individual buildings yet accommodate a wide range of everyday activities, from storage and cultivation to rest and social interaction. City as Domain takes these patterns of occupation as a starting point, reconsidering the city not as a collection of isolated buildings connected by paths, but as a continuous territory shaped by relationships between people and space.
Inspired by the toe-maru, a transitional space in traditional Korean architecture, the project extends the domestic threshold into the vertical urban fabric. Existing rooftops are reconfigured and connected through bridges, shared platforms, and semi-exterior spaces, allowing private territories to gradually expand into collective environments. These spaces remain open to adaptation through everyday occupation.
City as Domain redefines publicness not simply through ownership or designated function, but through the relationships and negotiations that emerge between individual and collective life.
In Seochon, domestic life also extends into alleys and markets. Mapping these activities revealed a gap between legal ownership and everyday use. The proposal connects private rooms, toe-maru, shared courts, roofs, and bridges; Purpose Spaces and Rooms are linked through rules that support changing domestic routines. Adjoining households share circulation and open space as the network develops across scales.
Adaptive Living Patterns
Can Housing Adapt to the Ways We Live?
Housing Typology / Domestic Behavior / Spatial Adaptability
Why do standardized housing layouts assume similar patterns of living for different people?
Adaptive Living Patterns begins with the discrepancy between standardized Korean apartment typologies and the diverse ways residents inhabit domestic space. Questioning whether fixed room arrangements can adequately accommodate different routines, the project uses patterns of everyday behavior as a basis for reconsidering residential organization.
Through the analysis of behavioral archetypes and spatial use, conventional divisions between rooms and functions are reconstructed. Housing is understood not as a predetermined arrangement of programs, but as a spatial system capable of supporting different combinations of activities and relationships.
Adaptive Living Patterns explores a model of housing that responds to the ways people live, rather than requiring residents to conform to a fixed spatial framework.
