Kyomunsa Office by Daniel Valle Architects

Kyomunsa Office
Kyomunsa Office
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Kyomunsa Publisher’s new headquarters in Paju Book City is a hybrid building that combines book’s storage with working spaces.

Kyomunsa Office
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The project takes the opportunity to propose a common container capable to absorb both programs.

Kyomunsa Office
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Consequently, the building is thought as a sequence of correlative sections constructed along an eighty meter long structure.

Kyomunsa Office
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The first section is a rectangular, one floor, six by eleven meters shape -“ideal” for storing books- and its last one in a three floor, pitched roof, fifteen by seven meters shape –a section that resembles to a living or working typology.

Kyomunsa Office
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The sequence of sections along the project is smoothly morphing between the first and last one. The second step is to place the new structure on site.

Kyomunsa Office
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As the site has a forty five meter squared shape –half the size of the building’s length- the structure had to twist itself in order to fit transforming itself from a rectangular to a “V” shape.

Kyomunsa Office
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This operation allows the possibility to relate exterior and interior spaces as the roof of the storage sections meets the same level as the floor of the sections containing the office program. Source by Daniel Valle Architects.

Kyomunsa Office
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Location: Paju Book City, Seoul, South Korea
Architect: Daniel Valle Architects
Collaborator: Minah Lee
Client: Kyomunsa Publishers
Area: 1,497 Sqm
Estimation Cost: 1,400,000,000 Krw
Photographs: Courtesy of Daniel Valle Architects

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Level 03 Floor Plan
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