A brick house with curvy walls

The project by Obba architects is a small house of 82 sqm, in Bipa-ri, Hadong in Gyeongsangnamdo. The architects’ biggest concern about this project was defining the relationship between private spaces and the rest in a countryside where all sides were open to crop fields. A fence wall was built on the boundary of the entire site, away from the actual house. Obba incorporated this element as a part of the building in order to create several types of intermediate/transitory area between private and public spaces.

The house is composed of a living room with generous openings toward the North and South, and a master bedroom and two guest bedrooms on the East. Each end of the living room has a small pocket garden formed by the curvy brick walls. The curvy wall on the North has an arch shaped opening on top that allows view toward the greens of Bipa Island from the living room. There is a small opening on the bottom of the wall for neighboring dogs and cats to freely pass through. One of the master bedroom’s wall and kitchen’s wall grows out similarly to screen the bedroom from the streets and to provide shades and storage space for the kitchen, respectively.