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	<title>Comments on: Z-House by Hohyun Park + Hyunjoo Kim</title>
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		<title>By: gina</title>
		<link>http://www.contemporist.com/2009/08/27/z-house-by-hohyun-park-hyunjoo-kim/#comment-445329</link>
		<dc:creator>gina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wonder how much this house cost to buy or to get one built</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wonder how much this house cost to buy or to get one built</p>
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		<title>By: Ken</title>
		<link>http://www.contemporist.com/2009/08/27/z-house-by-hohyun-park-hyunjoo-kim/#comment-343587</link>
		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Looks like they&#039;re not quite finished furnishing this home.  A good interior designer could give it
some warmth.  Architects generally aren&#039;t very good interior designers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looks like they&#8217;re not quite finished furnishing this home.  A good interior designer could give it<br />
some warmth.  Architects generally aren&#8217;t very good interior designers.</p>
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		<title>By: hZ!</title>
		<link>http://www.contemporist.com/2009/08/27/z-house-by-hohyun-park-hyunjoo-kim/#comment-291319</link>
		<dc:creator>hZ!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The whole internal plan is secondary to and symptomatic of the architect’s ‘vision’ of intersecting prisms and alphabet letters.  This kind of hubris is unfortunately not considered in the least remarkable.  I would feel a complete chump if, having godzillions to spend on a T-shirt, I were to buy one, made especially for me, that had the maker’s name in 150 font, front and back, and that then seemed to be the right size and shape to fit the maker, or maybe to fit some generic humanoid of proportions calculated to represent nothing but the average body type possessed by those with godzillions to spend.
Looking at this from a distance it’s ‘hey the grey prism fits into the wooden zigzag, and there are patterns to discern, like a puzzle’.  Which I doubt says anything much about the client but a sh*tload about the architect and his model table/CAD interface.
And I have to say the photographer has done a great job choosing camera angles to capture the many slots and squares and other polygons echoing each other here and there.  Hoorah for pattern recognition, but what does this multilith contribute as a home?

It is hard to think of a pro.

A list of cons:
Shiny stairs + children with damp feet or flat-soled dress shoes = disaster
Ugly (fashionable) washbasin with immovable tap in a shiny-floored transit area = falls and broken bones
So far, this house is just dangerous.
Stairs whose lower edges are not rounded = scraped backs of heels. 
Light fittings worthy of a hotel atrium.  In fact this looks like a hotel, with the horrible institutional downlights and all the glass and metal and plaster.  A hotel owned by someone who loves black white and ochre enough to cover thousands of square metres with them.  And who hates every other colour.
‘Clever’ curved wall that means all furniture against it will have large gaps behind.
No privacy in the bathroom.  The architect may find this unbelievable, but there ARE times human beings prefer to sit on and otherwise use the jacks without feeling like shop front window displays. 
A bath that wastes megalitres of water.
A bathroom without a single storage facility, or so it appears.
A shiny floor in the dining room!  + food and drinks = more broken bones.
A dingy, dark reading room/library with no place to sit unless you count that wide, hard wooden bench. It seemingly operates similarly to McDonalds, doing all possible to encourage outward traffic.
A relatively generous double doorway leading to a deck which is a thoroughly imprisoning space with its harsh concrete walls and oppressive cantilevered (‘clever’) overhang.

There is no limit to the coldness and brutality of this building.  It seems to be comprised almost entirely of thinly disguised corridors.
And I’m presuming they’re planning to do something about covering the windows later- or don’t they mind looking like ants in an ant farm from outside?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The whole internal plan is secondary to and symptomatic of the architect’s ‘vision’ of intersecting prisms and alphabet letters.  This kind of hubris is unfortunately not considered in the least remarkable.  I would feel a complete chump if, having godzillions to spend on a T-shirt, I were to buy one, made especially for me, that had the maker’s name in 150 font, front and back, and that then seemed to be the right size and shape to fit the maker, or maybe to fit some generic humanoid of proportions calculated to represent nothing but the average body type possessed by those with godzillions to spend.<br />
Looking at this from a distance it’s ‘hey the grey prism fits into the wooden zigzag, and there are patterns to discern, like a puzzle’.  Which I doubt says anything much about the client but a sh*tload about the architect and his model table/CAD interface.<br />
And I have to say the photographer has done a great job choosing camera angles to capture the many slots and squares and other polygons echoing each other here and there.  Hoorah for pattern recognition, but what does this multilith contribute as a home?</p>
<p>It is hard to think of a pro.</p>
<p>A list of cons:<br />
Shiny stairs + children with damp feet or flat-soled dress shoes = disaster<br />
Ugly (fashionable) washbasin with immovable tap in a shiny-floored transit area = falls and broken bones<br />
So far, this house is just dangerous.<br />
Stairs whose lower edges are not rounded = scraped backs of heels.<br />
Light fittings worthy of a hotel atrium.  In fact this looks like a hotel, with the horrible institutional downlights and all the glass and metal and plaster.  A hotel owned by someone who loves black white and ochre enough to cover thousands of square metres with them.  And who hates every other colour.<br />
‘Clever’ curved wall that means all furniture against it will have large gaps behind.<br />
No privacy in the bathroom.  The architect may find this unbelievable, but there ARE times human beings prefer to sit on and otherwise use the jacks without feeling like shop front window displays.<br />
A bath that wastes megalitres of water.<br />
A bathroom without a single storage facility, or so it appears.<br />
A shiny floor in the dining room!  + food and drinks = more broken bones.<br />
A dingy, dark reading room/library with no place to sit unless you count that wide, hard wooden bench. It seemingly operates similarly to McDonalds, doing all possible to encourage outward traffic.<br />
A relatively generous double doorway leading to a deck which is a thoroughly imprisoning space with its harsh concrete walls and oppressive cantilevered (‘clever’) overhang.</p>
<p>There is no limit to the coldness and brutality of this building.  It seems to be comprised almost entirely of thinly disguised corridors.<br />
And I’m presuming they’re planning to do something about covering the windows later- or don’t they mind looking like ants in an ant farm from outside?</p>
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		<title>By: jwc3</title>
		<link>http://www.contemporist.com/2009/08/27/z-house-by-hohyun-park-hyunjoo-kim/#comment-253837</link>
		<dc:creator>jwc3</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cool stairs!</description>
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		<title>By: George Brown</title>
		<link>http://www.contemporist.com/2009/08/27/z-house-by-hohyun-park-hyunjoo-kim/#comment-250606</link>
		<dc:creator>George Brown</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i dream of this house in this location.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i dream of this house in this location.</p>
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		<title>By: cristy</title>
		<link>http://www.contemporist.com/2009/08/27/z-house-by-hohyun-park-hyunjoo-kim/#comment-247988</link>
		<dc:creator>cristy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Absolutely fabulous &#9829; I love the design and the aesthetics of the design.I would love to live here. The floating stair case is magical.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Absolutely fabulous &hearts; I love the design and the aesthetics of the design.I would love to live here. The floating stair case is magical.</p>
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		<title>By: SYLVIA</title>
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		<dc:creator>SYLVIA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Se integra a la perfeccion con el entorno. muy de acuerdo con los detalles, son los que al final embellezen la vivienda como en la escalera..y las luces ... de que firmas son??? son muy bellas, sobre todo la del comedor, ya me informareis. saludos y felicidades</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Se integra a la perfeccion con el entorno. muy de acuerdo con los detalles, son los que al final embellezen la vivienda como en la escalera..y las luces &#8230; de que firmas son??? son muy bellas, sobre todo la del comedor, ya me informareis. saludos y felicidades</p>
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		<title>By: Christian</title>
		<link>http://www.contemporist.com/2009/08/27/z-house-by-hohyun-park-hyunjoo-kim/#comment-247641</link>
		<dc:creator>Christian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Full of gorgeous details, like the stair cases, also full of interesting angles and views. Seems to me though some space is &#039;wasted&#039; of traffic areas rather than living room. Still, I like it!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Full of gorgeous details, like the stair cases, also full of interesting angles and views. Seems to me though some space is &#8216;wasted&#8217; of traffic areas rather than living room. Still, I like it!</p>
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		<title>By: JT</title>
		<link>http://www.contemporist.com/2009/08/27/z-house-by-hohyun-park-hyunjoo-kim/#comment-247514</link>
		<dc:creator>JT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Love how it sits into the surrounding hills and the site. Interior is warm and cosy. Is this the new Korean Phenomenology?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Love how it sits into the surrounding hills and the site. Interior is warm and cosy. Is this the new Korean Phenomenology?</p>
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