Asty Garak Residential Building by Yongsu Lee is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.
BronzeArchitecture· 2023
Asty Garak Residential Building
by Yongsu Lee
Client: Cre-Te
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category
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About Asty Garak Residential Building
Asty Garak is a high-end compact residence that responds to lifestyle changes in Korea. It is a project that aims to overcome the spatial limitations of existing low-priced small residential products and to develop functions and designs for high-income consumers. It planned a product that satisfies the functional and aesthetic perspective with a unit layout that can be transformed according to the lifestyle and a finishing material that highlights the aesthetic perspective.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Asty Garak Residential Building is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Asty Garak Residential Building is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Asty Garak Residential Building splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to columnar joint design in Asty Garak Residential Building draws inspiration from natural formations - could you elaborate on how this structural element contributes to both sustainability and aesthetic appeal?
Asty Garak’s building design vocabulary is a harmonious combination of organic form and structural stability, inspired by the topographical history of the region. Garak's vibes are actively reflected in curves and waves that metaphorically represent morphological freedom, providing cities with a three-dimensional design solution that deviates from the straight line and two-dimensional composition of existing residential architecture. The harmony of verticality and curvaceous beauty gives the building an overall soft image. Combining shape and function, this system symbolizes a balance of sustainable engineering and timeless beauty.
The integration of smart glass technology in Asty Garak Residential Building represents a departure from traditional residential frameworks - how does this technological choice enhance the living experience for high-income consumers?
Integrating smart glass technology redefined the living experience of high-income consumers. With dynamic control over lighting and privacy, residents can customize their surroundings for relaxation, productivity, or entertainment, and the energy-efficient nature of smart glass combines luxury and sustainability with reduced heating and cooling costs. This innovative technology improves comfort, convenience, and aesthetic appeal, providing a modern customized living space that reflects the sophistication of the residents.
Considering the transformative unit layouts in Asty Garak Residential Building, what specific design elements were incorporated to address the evolving lifestyle needs of Korea's young affluent demographic?
Asty Garak's units are designed to meet the changing lifestyle needs of Korea's young and wealthy class. With the focus on flexibility, it provides transformable spaces for telecommuting, personal hobbies, or social gatherings. Open-plan living rooms, high ceilings, and large windows that extend up to the ceiling maximize the sense of openness, and smart home technology adds convenience. Modern secret storage and multifunctional furniture options enhance functionality, and these elements offer a harmonious blend of sophistication and practicality to fit into modern urban life.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Asty Garak is a high-end compact residence that responds to lifestyle changes in Korea. It is a project that aims to overcome the spatial limitations of existing low priced small residential products and to develop functions and designs for high income consumers. It planned a product that satisfies the functional and aesthetic perspective with a unit layout that can be transformed according to the lifestyle and a finishing material that highlights the aesthetic perspective.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Site area : 1,168m2, Building area : 688m2, Building height : 57m, Scale : B1F-B8F, 1F-18F, 187 units
- Tags
- Compact living, High-end residence, Transformed layout, Columnar joint, Sustainable Architecture
- Production Technology
- The columnar structure considering sustainability is designed to be able to cope with future scalability and changes. GFRC, which constitutes the exterior, is a technology manufactured through a mold and synthesizes concrete and glass fibers to implement a system with a durability of 100 years in design. The interior design of the unit was carried out with a new configuration considering openness and scalability, away from the existing residence framework using smart glass technology.
- Design Challenge
- The project is a project to create a new residential trend in Korea, an advanced city. It overcomes the physical limitations of space, provides high-end space for the high cost, high income class through economic, cultural, artistic approaches. This is a new challenge in property value. And the positive response and response of consumers in the current volatile real estate market disproves the successful settlement of the project.
- Research
- Professor Kim Nando of Seoul National University: Refer to the Research Data on Lifestyle Housing Platform Product/Operation Strategy
- Inspiration
- The project started with a site called Garak in Seoul. Unlike in the past, Garak was a safe place due to the flooding of the Hangang River. Considering the regional characteristics of preventing external waves, the elevation design was designed with the motif of the columnar joint. In addition, it borrowed the form of curves and waves of freedom in the intangible meaning of "joy" in the name of the melody to draw sympathy from users by designing the main entrance and community.
- Project Duration
- This project is the center of development in the eastern part of Seoul, where new future values will be realized along with continuous development. Construction begins in September 2022 and is scheduled to be completed in October 2025.
- Operation Flow
- Existing small housing markets often focus on habitability and cost-effectiveness. Asty Garak refers to the need for high-end spaces and communities tailored to the changing lifestyle and society as value consumption MZ generation and young rich increase. In addition, the maximum outdoor area is guaranteed with an average of 40 square meters of small residential 3bay configuration, maximizing residential comfort compared to existing small residential areas.
- Team Members
- Yongsu Lee
Euna Park
Jeechang Oh
Soohyun Choo - Image Credits
- #1, 2, 3, 4, 5 : Overnine holdings
Video credits : Overnine holdings
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