Design Report

1. the grass house
Initially it began from earth. There were at least two surfaces, those are natural one and artificial one. But now we have only artificial surface in our housing. Why do we cling to walls which are vertical surfaces? (Why do we decorate only walls?) In this case, by concentrating on floors I am going to examine and broaden the diversity of the field. And by introducing planting which is always hesitating on the outside into the interior, I am going to remind the meaning of naturally symbiotic environment. "Earth meets sky smoothly."

2. the grass house & sunken rooms
Making lower sunken areas on a floor is how to make primitive safe life area from outer enemy. But, in the era of electronic equipment doing that is how to organize life with nature in geographical method. It resembles the conceptual aspects of the sunken court cave dwellings in Quian Lian, Henan province of China or the ground conditions of primitive dwellings in Am-sa of Korea. There are two prominent layers, grass and room, and a kitchen is located between them. The kitchen associate the areas on movement and function between common area and private area.

3. nature
In the electronic media age, the nature looks like a mountain which is background of paintings and pictures. Sometimes it substituted by one image which can't exists any longer if the electrical power were down. We cannot touch and breathe with it. As the roll of media becomes larger and more digitalized, we might stand far and far from the nature which was delivered of us. Natural things are more essential to us.

4. media & nature
Sometimes nature plays a role to intermediate invisible phenomena surrounding us. When the phenomena continue, we remind our lives. What does grass on a room mean? We run parallel with nature through urban lives. In this case, some parts of modified media have some close connection with nature. Those are required to live with nature in a city. The fatal problem of indoor planting is partial lack of light. In this project, to overcome the problem light is supplied by optical fiber lighting using sunlight. The popping 'media grass' on a weedy ground access networks and electronic machinery through simple operation.

5. flexibilities & furniture
If flexibility was applied every furniture of systems, it would be a little uneconomical. It is rare for the flexibility to occurs every day. Actually it happens once or twice in years. Does flexibility hold good on economical theory? If flexibility is obtained by the smallest arrangement shift, it is successful. Parent's and child's rooms are large part for various activities. The independent and quiet room under living room is for reading or home office. When independent space is required for the child, the large room is divided into two by installing partitioning furniture. When the child grows up and independent space is required, the room under living room could be the child's and the parents area will be larger. Shelve and the physical server of media systems will be located under the kitchen.