Mangmi Farm

For a long time, people have built houses with wood, and most traditional Korean houses had sloped roofs. Because wood is weak against water, a sloped roof that drains rain and snow was a natural solution.

Meanwhile, the client of this project had a limited budget. This led me to rethink the structural elements that make up a building. In general, the main structural elements of a building are the floor, the wall, and the roof, and I explored whether these elements could be combined. Among the vertical element (the wall) and the horizontal elements (the floor and the roof), the wall had the greatest potential to connect the other two elements. When considering both function and form, integrating the wall and the roof seemed the most reasonable solution.

As a result, this project started with the idea of combining the wall and the roof into a single element.