Architect：Jungmin Nam / OA-Lab

Location：1334-3 Seocho-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea; | ;

Project Year：2017

Category：Apartments

“Yellow Foot” is an apartment project located in the mid-size residential district of Seocho-dong in Seoul, Korea. This type of neighborhood is densely packed with small and middle-sized housings and accounts for about 40% of the total population of Seoul. Here, it is typical that buildings are surrounded by either blocking walls or parking lots along the streets without respecting pedestrians. There is no idea of public spaces and activities so that buildings are isolated from the streets behind walls and parking lots. In this situation, “Yellow Foot” apartment is intended as an attempt to create open and engaging relationships between private and public.

To create positive relationships, the project proposes out-reaching design for the ground level experiences. Usually in these types of neighborhood in Seoul, the piloti-area is necessary to secure parking space and to maximize the floor area ratio. But it induces unpleasant street conditions where pedestrians have to face parking spaces along the streets, where nobody wants to walk.