The angular structure travels between the entrance hall and the artist's working areas.

Narrow tubes of lighting have been inserted between fragments of the wing.

In order to separate the living quarters from the workspace, the wing does not enter the kitchen, bedroom or bathroom.

We previously featured another project in South Korea by AnLstudio – an observatory made of shippping containers.

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Photographs are by Sunghwan Yoon and Heebon Koo.

Here's some more information from the architects:

AnLstudio, a New York & Seoul-based design firm, completes renovated home office space for an artist. The project is located in typical residential unit on 10th floor of a 45 year old Korean complex apartment in Seoul. The project was built on re-consideration of dwelling space in response to home-working.

Ultimately, it attempts not only to maximise the texture of the historical landmark building, but also to create a new environment that supports a condition for two conflicting activities (working and dwelling), reflecting the contemporary residential culture. AnLstudio rethinks how the typical residential unit can accommodate two activities - creating two clusters and sharing the programs.

Inspiration in both the name of apartment, Nakwon – meaning 'utopia' – and the client’s attitude for life, led to the design of the distinguishing purely white feature shaped like a wing of an aeroplane. The aim for the wing is to differentiate between two rival life patterns in a confined space. The target is to maximise the spatial perception by wrapping it with unique lighting embedded in the ceilings and walls of working area.

The 'wrapper' around the ceiling and wall surfaces of the ground floors is carefully planned to connect and serve the semi-public clusters such as the vestibule, living area, library and Working table. The wing supports functions of work, providing lighting and organising dwelling units along the periphery of the space, which is the private area (master bedroom, kitchen, bathroom).

Client: Sey Min
Architect: AnLstudio
Team: Keehyun Ahn, Minsoo Lee, and Yongseok Kwon
Construction Director: Heebon Koo
Location: Jongro, Seoul
Program: Home Office
Area: 69sqm
Status: Completed 2012 August

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Korean designers AnL Studio have completed an observatory made of shipping containers in Songdo New City, Incheon, South Korea.

Called OceanScope, the structure has three containers supported at angles of ten, 30 and 50 degrees so that visitors can ascend inside them and watch the sunset over the harbour.

Photographs are by Park So-Young and Chang Gil-Hwang.

The text below is from the architects:

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Title : OceanScope observatory by AnL Studio

Korean designers Keehyun Ahn & Minsoo Lee have designed a public observatory called OceanScope in In-cheon made of recycled materials, including old shipping containers.

The old containers are re-purposed and used for a temporary shelter in many rural areas in Korea simply because it is inexpensive.

However, indiscreet uses of these commercial metal-box products that don't have harmonious relationships with their surroundings are causing an unsuccessful outcome in rural environments.

With these issues in mind, The OceanScope is an initiative from the Mayor of Incheon City, which has one of the biggest harbor in Korea aiming to find unused containers' potential of practical re-use for public space and to provide the bleak containers with new functional aesthetics that can be assimilated within rural landscapes.

To this end, the OceanScope, located in the historic sunset place of Incheon city, expresses the dream of establishing an observatory deck purposed on sustainable design by recycling the least expensive unused containers.

In order to overcome the limitation of a building site where ground level is too low to view a beautiful sunset, the containers' structure can be leaned at various angles (10' 30' 50').

This will allow citizens to go up the stairs and meet higher positions with diverse viewpoints throughout the inside of each container.

Project name : OceanScope
Client: Incheon Metropolitan City,Korea / Cho Dong-Am, Ahn Young-Sik
Program: Public Observatory
Location: Songdo New City, Incheon, South Korea

Architect & Designer: Keehyun Ahn, Minsoo Lee
Planning & Producing : Chang Gil-Hwang, Kim Yong-Bae

Construction team: Ju Kwon-Jung, Choi Hui-hyun, Kim Chung-bong, Lee Seung-Ho, Park Kwon-ui, Kang Jung-Tae, Ham Yun-Ki
Start commission: 2010
Photographs : Park So-Young, Chang Gil-Hwang

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