Among the new real estate consumption trends, there is the neologism called ‘Young-kkel Generation’ which means that young people borrow money from banks and their entire family members as much as possible desperately to buy their own house. ‘Yeong-kkel generation’ is an expression of anxiety created by young generation’s fear that they cannot buy their own houses in the future due to a sharp rise in house price. This situation is getting so serious.

▼项目概览， overall of the project © Jongoh Kim

In South Korea, The ‘architectural space’ is recognized only as ‘real estate for commercial profit’ nowadays. In the concept of real estate, which is assessed by mechanical measurement, ‘architectural space for living’ has no meaning. As a result of competitive social climate, these kinds of social trends are naturally transplanted into urban space and creating dreary city’s landscape. This is why urban architecture became expressionless and isolated in the silence.

But, in the scenery of traditional villages where we played in our childhood, was shown and communicated through the wall of each house. This kind of ‘restricted interference’ like low walls surrounding the yard should be an essential element of urban architecture. However, in a vertical city, there can be no such yards. So, we just hope thin balconies of our building will serve that role as a yard and walls in the village. Tri_poly is the story of an architectural process to restore those lost features of our life.