Iroje Khm Architects

84 Yulgok-ro, Unni-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea

www.irojekhm.com

IROJE KHM Architects was established in 1989 in Korea, which sustains the legitimacy and purity of architecture and makes attempts to restore the identity of urban architectural culture in Korea in this age where blind westernization is inherited. To this end, IROJE KHM Architects explores and researches the traditional nature of Korean architecture both in the past and in the modern times to establish unique and distinguished identity of urban architectural culture of Korea, through which IROJE KHM Architects is intended to find the meaning of its work in realizing the existence of Korean architectural culture in the world

PROJECTS

"Airship landing and nature charging"

The owner of Flying House is a young pilot: the house for his family landed on the site in the newly developing city of Gyeongseo-dong near Incheon Airport, South Korea

Archi-Fiore: metal materials are combined to give shape to an architectural flower

A big metal flower is the proposal of Iroje Khm Architects intended to enhance and give identity to a commercial building. Archi-Fiore, with its countless curved surfaces, is now the landmark of the city in which it stands

A Korean tradition in a modern architectural style for the hyper-dynamic GA ON JAI villa

GA ON JAI: An ecological space which follows the natural lines of the landscape where it is immersed; an introverted architecture which focuses on interiors, while at the same time it protects from pollution and the intrusiveness of the outside world; a dynamic living space which absorbs the surrounding mountain landscape