Traditional Korean Style Floating House by Hyunjoon Yoo Architects

Floating House by Hyunjoon Yoo Architects

This traditional Korean Floating House is designed by Hyunjoon Yoo Architects facing Bukhan River in the north. The guest house was built as if it were the fence to be located as far as it can be in the south.The main building elevated to be a piloti with plain roof garden to overlook the river.

Large Living Room Floating House by Hyunjoon Yoo Architects

To make the house look as big as possible, a one meter wide balcony made of the same materials as the main building was built at its four sides. Since all the buildings were lifted from the floor for one floor’s height, the pilotis space could be more expanded. Black concrete was used for a magnificent style, creating the feeling of tiles used in traditional Korean-style houses.

Kitchen and Dining Room Floating House by Hyunjoon Yoo Architects

The plan can be described as the “space within space.” The service space, such as a bathroom, a dress room, and a kitchen, was concentrated in the middle and compactly distributed, and a bedroom was placed in the east, a living room in the west, and a corridor in the outskirts. To make people in the house feel the space bigger than real, a circular traffic line was adopted instead of one main traffic line. Since the stairs that lead to the roof were made as if they were inserted to the second floor, the staircase does not protrude on the roof.

Luxury Bedroom Floating House by Hyunjoon Yoo Architects

Architecture is to design relationship. There are three kinds of relationships: physical relationship, visual relationship, and psychological relationship. “Physical relationship” is the relationship in which a person looks at an object and actually he/she can reach that. “Visual relationship” means the relationship in which a person can look at an object but he/she cannot reach that. When a person looks at the ground across the river that has no bridge, and he/she communicates with that place through a window from a place without door, it is the visual relationship. “Psychological relationship” is the relationship in which a person cannot go over or look at an object, but he/she knows that there is the object. When a person is in a place without a window and he/she knows that there is a room beyond the wall, it is the psychological relationship.

Floating House Luxury Bathroom by Hyunjoon Yoo Architects

In this house, these kinds of relationships were created through traditional “rooms,” such as living room, bedroom, roof, staircase, kitchen, or bathroom. For example, the study room and the kitchen were divided by a staircase but connected through a small window. The bathroom was connected to the sky through the window at the top and connected to the staircase that leads to the roof at the third floor through the window. Also, a person can look at the river through the study room while he/she is taking a shower or bath. In the living room, there are same-sized windows at the top and bottom to provide a wormhole-like feeling to the parallel structure. Through this mechanism, a visual relationship was formed at each floor. The windows and doors here and there were devised to create more various relationships in the simple mass-shaped house.