The hanok is the main element of Korean vernacular architecture. It is a sensible way of building houses, using a minimum of resources and avoiding, or at least limiting, environmental impacts. It is a house built by people, for people; and using materials can be found around them.
After visiting to Korea we were able to realize how the most important cities are abandoning this typology to replace it with skyscrapers. Speci cally in Daegu, where this project is proposed, we found many blocks with hanoks inside abandoned or in very bad conditions. Therefore, the objective of this proposal is to redesign these blocks and adapt them to modern life in order to prevent the construction of skyscrapers.
A new way of living and a new typology inspired by the basic concepts of these traditional dwellings is proposed in a block with abandoned hanoks. First of all, the interior of this block is redesigned, leaving some commercial buildings as a limit to hide this proposal. Within it, there are crops, parks and common spaces, available to the inhabitants of the modern Hanoks.
These common spaces are a kindergarten, an atelier/storage where certain pieces are made for the production of the new hanoks and an area to produce and store compost with waste from housing and crops. This is intended to increase the reuse of as many elements as possible.
Regarding this new typology, the main objective is that they can be built by people who are not experts in construction and with elements that are as close as possible to this block. We propose a house with a wooden structure joined by means of the assembly technique. In addition, using adobe as insulation makes the house once destroyed can return to the ground and be a continuous cycle.
It is a three-story house leaving the rst oor open. It has two ways of living, as a worker (orange) or as an inhabitant (pink), if you are a fan of cultivation, you have spaces inside the house where you can develop your hobby as a workshop and storage areas. In addition, the morphology of the house allows to have two entrances, one that connects the crops with the upper oor of the workshop and another that is the main entrance that connects the street with the rest of the spaces of a house.
In conclusion, this proposal aims to stop the construction of large skyscrapers and makes a fusion of hanoks and the facilities that high towers can give to their inhabitants. This gives rise to this new sustainable typology inspired by the hanoks.