Small ‘Massiveness’
Jul 04, 2019
4 minutes
Kim Hanjoong
former co-principal, fig.architects
Size
he concept of size is relative. The standard for what is defined as big or small depends on the object in question. The interpretative mechanism is more complex when it comes to building sizes in cities. Many standards, such as the neighboring building’s size, the adjacent street’s width, the building’s function, and even personally familiar units of area measurement, are all considered in the equation. In the end, the size is a matter of visual or empirical proportion, and the object of comparison is equally important. The small site less than 50 pyeong on
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