Korean achitecture firm SsD architecture created the Songpa Micro-Housing scheme composed of 14 ‘unit blocks’ which uniquely allows the residents to adapt their home’s configuration depending on their changing life and work situations.Residents can either claim a single space, or in the case where a couple or friends desire to live together, recombine the blocks for larger configurations. the scheme introduces a new typology that extends the limits of the housing unit to integrate semi-public circulation and balconies.The building itself consists of a series of rising volumes: Their heights, differing recessions masked by metal screen which wraps around the entire scheme, while acting as the railings, barrier and drainage paths.
‘As unit types get smaller however, land costs coupled with developer driven profit margins can merely create a provisional housing type with little social value’ comments SsD architecture, the communal space in between the units are ‘ like the ambiguous gel around a tapioca pearl, this ‘tapioca space’ becomes a soft intersection between public/private and interior/exterior, creating social fabrics between neighbors.’
