Open House: A 20 Room Vertical Treehouse Village in Korea

Posted By Yuka Yoneda On October 27, 2010 @ 6:34 pm In Architecture,Treehouses | 2 Comments

• Tweet ^[1]
• Share on Tumblr ^[2]
• Email ^[3]

 

^{[4]  [5]}

Nestled amongst the trees in Anyang, Korea, Open House ^[6] is an exciting new vertical village with five levels and 20 mini house shaped rooms. The treehouse ^[7]-like space was erected for the community with everything from a bicycle rental shop, a children’s jeongja (play pavilion), a vegetable garden, recycling workshops, a green house, community gardens and a tea room - but the coolest part of this all by far is the fact that it was made by the community too! That's right, over 200 residents of Anyang pitched in to actually build the structure piece by piece.

  ^[5]

^[8]

Open House was designed by raumlaborkorea ^[6] (with the help of the community), and celebrated its grand opening last month. But it isn’t technically “complete” – and that’s the whole point! raumlaborkorea’s intention was for the village to keep growing and evolving over the years in response to the needs of Anyang as a type of “social sculpture.” While it may appear to be just a building on the outside (albeit an intriguing one), Open House is really a “self-learning laboratory, constantly in creation and transformation for the collective research of the open community.”

In addition to the community-run greenhouse ^[9], Open House will have many programmed spaces including the Open House Real Estate office, anchae (a women’s conversation room called a Room of One’s Own), an artist studio and workshop, a bar, a teahouse, jeonggas, a kitchen, a farm ^[10] and more. Each of these areas is open for the public to use and enjoy workshops, film screenings, performances, concerts, parties and art exhibitions.

+ raumlaborkorea ^[6]

Article printed from Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building: http://inhabitat.com

URL to article: http://inhabitat.com/open-house-a-20-room-vertical-treehouse-village-in-korea/

URLs in this post:

[1] Tweet: http://twitter.com/share

[2] Share on Tumblr: http://www.tumblr.com/share

[3] Email: mailto:?subject=http://inhabitat.com/open-house-a-20-room-vertical-treehouse-village-in-korea/

[4]

[5]  : http://inhabitat.com/open-house-a-20-room-vertical-treehouse-village-in-korea/raumlabor-14/?extend=1

[6] Open House: http://raumlaborkorea.tumblr.com/

[7] treehouse: http://inhabitat.com/index.php?s=treehouse

[8] Image: http://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2010/10/raumlabor-14.jpg

[9] greenhouse: http://inhabitat.com/index.php?s=vertical+farm

[10] farm: http://inhabitat.com/2010/10/18/feeder-an-elevated-highway-farm-to-feed-chicago/

Click here to print.