222, Whatever Bang, Mega Sang-ga, Seoul, Korea

Kyungjoo Min, BA (Year: 3)

Based on the research of Korea's typology of Sang-ga and bangs, the project questions the prescribed forms of living by designing an open scenario that supports constant mutation, which creates the various and unexpected forms of living that romanticized vision of an architect can never plan.
Bangs(rooms) and Sang-ga show constant mutation by people's desire and economical circumstances. However, these are not yet accepted as a living condition because it is not a suggested way of living.

Bangs(rooms) and Sang-ga show constant mutation by people's desire and economical circumstances. However, these are not yet accepted as a living condition because it is not a suggested way of living.

Whatever bang, Mega-sang-ga is located in Seoul. Whatever bang doesn't reject these market-driven desire being escaping bangs, establishing this bangs into the condition of living, with No windows.

Whatever bang, Mega-sang-ga is located in Seoul. Whatever bang doesn't reject these market-driven desire being escaping bangs, establishing this bangs into the condition of living, with No windows.

Surrounding gosiwons and status quo works as a facade, restaurant-level in first floor hijacks existing gosiwon models. Surrounding residents can choose to be collective or individual inside 1F.

Surrounding gosiwons and status quo works as a facade, restaurant-level in first floor hijacks existing gosiwon models. Surrounding residents can choose to be collective or individual inside 1F.

The second floor, Archive of bangs has more of existing shells of bangs, allows people to move furniture from 3F (storage).

The second floor, Archive of bangs has more of existing shells of bangs, allows people to move furniture from 3F (storage).

Enables Archive of bangs to contain already existing bangs as an archive and triggers future bangs, allowing pure multiplicity beyond plan or control, becoming a lab to freely test out the bangs.

Enables Archive of bangs to contain already existing bangs as an archive and triggers future bangs, allowing pure multiplicity beyond plan or control, becoming a lab to freely test out the bangs.

The third floor, the storage, having an enormous collection of the furniture and bang or life equipments from the past bangs and potential future bangs are shared to make the bang people want.

The third floor, the storage, having an enormous collection of the furniture and bang or life equipments from the past bangs and potential future bangs are shared to make the bang people want.

A possible scenario in which people occupy the storage space in their own way.

A possible scenario in which people occupy the storage space in their own way.

Whatever bang, last floor is largest bang, totally open to the occupiers to invent new types of living themselves outside of society's judging eyes inside a large open area with enclosed boundaries.

Whatever bang, last floor is largest bang, totally open to the occupiers to invent new types of living themselves outside of society's judging eyes inside a large open area with enclosed boundaries.

Whatever means abandoning the idea of an architect that architect can predict what will happen in the space they plan. The stairway is so narrow that only a body and one crucial object can go inside.

Whatever means abandoning the idea of an architect that architect can predict what will happen in the space they plan. The stairway is so narrow that only a body and one crucial object can go inside.

The only place that people can see the sky and affected by time, only underfloor heating is available to make the place comfortable. absence of other infrastructure helps to keep the space empty.

The only place that people can see the sky and affected by time, only underfloor heating is available to make the place comfortable. absence of other infrastructure helps to keep the space empty.