# Building a home on a constrained site

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2024-01-08
**Categories:** archdaily, architecture, construction, infill-housing, lee-hanul, seoul, south-korea, tium-architects
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/building-a-home-on-a-constrained-site

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I'm so predictable. This is the kind of house that tends to grab my attention: modern design, relatively small footprint (~7.8m x 12.3m), narrow street (~4m), and panoramic views (of Seoul). But what does it take to actually build a house like this in an urban fabric as dense as Seoul's? If you read TIUM Architect's description (using Google Translate for those of us who don't speak Korean), you'll see that the house was built out of concrete and steel, but that concrete trucks couldn't stage on the narrow and dead-end street. So what they ended up having to do was build a 100-meter concrete conveying pipe (~328 feet) and staging somewhere else. It was such a pain in the ass that they only wanted to do this for the foundations. The rest of the house was built out of steel. (I think because of the clear spans that they wanted.) Sometimes small infill projects aren't as simple as they may seem. In this case, the lot size is 92 m2. The building footprint is 51.53 m2 (56% lot coverage). And the total floor area is 136.52 m2. Photo: Lee Hanul via ArchDaily

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