DEAR KID:

You don't have any brothers or sisters, but you shouldn't feel alone or be any sad because your room is nearby other 23 children's rooms. Your 24 rooms are all different as the 24 "Ishipsa Cholgu" are. You can choose the colour, the shape and the name; take your pick! There is a green drop called Usu, a yellow igloo called Taeha. There is also a pink clover; Ipchun, a red crown; Choso, an orange tooth; Kogu,...and many more.

All the rooms are on top of the house, they are like periscopes with round windows like the submarines from where you can see if Peter Pan comes at night. During the day you and your 23 friends can play on a cloud that connects all the houses together. It is made of a material called translucid concrete that allows your parents see from underneath where are you all playing. It also lets the light pass trough so the swimming pool and gardens around your houses can be very bright. This big playground has a big hole on top of the pool that can be covered with brightly coloured awnings.

When you feel like going back home you just have to find your room's colour and shape.

The lower part of your house has various levels to differentiate between the spaces: kitchen, living room ,bath and parent's room. You can always follow the path to your room looking for the small stairs beside the adult's stairs. They have the same colour as your room. Your parents can check from their windows on top of the roof if you have switched off the lights. From the different windows in your room you can see who`s playing in the playground and decide whether to go out or not. You can also take a look at the sky and the landscape, and from your room's corner you can also see the plasma screen a bit later but don't tell this to your parents.

PERISCOPES OVER THE CLOUDS

Our main aim was to design a house for a child and his parents, but from the beginning we focused our project on the kid. We thought of a place that was to be his kingdom but with an objection: he would have all the advantages of having brothers and sisters. We planned a compound of 24 family houses that would share a common playground for all the kids. This way they could always have friends their age to play with.

Getting inside a child's mind, the aim would mutate and happen to be a room from where they can look at the sky waiting to see Peter Pan's arrival. There are as many different rooms as kids in our complex, 24, as the 24 Ishipsa Cholgu or solar terms are. Therefore we have designed 24 very simply shaped rooms for kids that we have named periscopes. They are painted in plain bright colours easy to recognize for them so they can identify their rooms and never forget their way back home. This periscopes help to look over a sea that is more like a cloud. This cloud is a common playground made of translucid concrete veined with optical fiber in order to allow the light pass through. From underneath parents can see where their sons and daughters are playing and feel safe. In the playground's floor we find a hole over a collective swimming pool surrounded by gardens. In warm seasons, this hole can be reduced with colourful awnings made with the traditional Korean kites' materials. From Never Never Land Peter Pan and Tinkerbell could see our intervention as the wild bright flowers spread in the Korean territory.

The house is divided in two levels: the upper part where the kid is the king and the lower common one. Small stairs adapted to the kid's scale are always showing the way up to their world, these stairs' colour is the same as the periscope's. This way, we are helping the kid seeing the world through many-coloured spectacles, and at the same time developing their ability to choose.

The marketing process starts with a catalogue with all the different periscopes where children can take their own pick. This method integrates the small ones in a society that usually forgets them. Up in the cloud, this living together of children of a wide variety of ages permits the creation of the social fabric from the basis. Children that can live among other children would be tolerant adults, otherwise isolated because of latchkeying and too many computer games. Our new Lost Boy's World is a world where they are no longer so lost.

The arrangement of family houses would fit very well near a sandy beach in the Korean east coast. The two possible long facades should be oriented with the one riddled with the holes towards the sun.

Despite of the fact that the project is focused on the kid, the periscopes and the cloud, we have as well thought of the parents' comfort and intimacy. They can share bath and bed in the same room both at the floor's level. The pavement of this room changes from the water-proof linoleum floor near the bathing tub to the soft coloured varnished oak timber in the bed's surroundings (respectively found as well in the parents' bathroom and in the living room and library).

In the living room and library books and light-holes are used as building materials creating a charming atmosphere where the family can read, talk, play or even watch movies in the giant plasma screen.

Inside the periscope, the floors and walls are covered with epoxy and urethane so kids can paint all over the surfaces erasing it easily afterwards. A plastic curtain isolates the bathroom area when it is used.

All exterior walls are built of thin sandwich panels in metal with an isolating coach inside. The upper part is coloured in nine different shades.