From the recently got famous Korean film ‘Parasite’, I found this house where most of the scenes took place interesting. This is partly to the styling of the property as it suits my taste and would link nicely with my past works as it mostly consists straight lines with simple geometric shapes.

I also liked the simple form interior of the building where many natural sources were present such as wood, plantae and use of natural stones.

In the beginning of this movie, there was a scene where the two character’s morning routine were shown. From Shaw’s living room scene, I spotted that his McLaren could be seen through glass doors between his garage and living room. I had this idea from a while ago where I can see my car parked in the garage but is visible through glass pane so I was thrilled to see this actually.

The images show the main character, Patrick Bateman, an easy-going investment banker committing series of murder in his flat. The flat itself has a very clean, uncluttered look which forms contrast between the acts of the user. All the interior aspects that could be witnessed are: set of seating, high-end audio system, paintings in various sizes and only essential equipment without many furniture or electronics. The interior colour scheme is again mostly white, could seem a little ‘hospital like’.

In my past works, I have included neon lighting to my designs and illustration methods. Watching TWICE’s music video where they used neon style lighting effects made me want to bring them back for this project.

I thought I could use small amounts of neon style lighting for some interior aspect and outer finish but not extensively as it is privately owned property and I don’t want it to attract too much attention.

The two images above show a set design in the beginning of the music video which reminded me of a tunnel and then I thought this could turn into interior decoration of my entrance of underground garage.

The side light strips are shaped in a way that makes me feel like I am travelling through and the sense of movement is finalised by the downwards arrow shaped light strips.

The image on the left showed some rough idea of how I could incorporate neon lighting on the exterior of the property and reminded of 50’s American petrol stations.

The car shown is also one of my dream machines.

It was towards the end where I found something really intriguing where they have used part of Korean traditional roof style as their set design and lighting it up with vibrant colours from inside. I was able to appreciate their effort in trying to include the heritage in such a temporary, youthful and global media.

I was first intrigued by the strange but sculptural look of the front of this property. My first thought was that the building does not form a harmony with its neighbouring buildings but I was then notified that this particular building was an old Edwardian building that was nearly a wreck but the owner transformed it to this. There are solar panels on the roof, not visible to the public, solar hot water panels make enough energy for roughly a year. There is also an inverter which returns the excess energy to the energy provider.

The sculptural curved shape contributes to reducing the road noise, reducing impact from gusty winds, blocks out summer’s late afternoon’s strong sunlight, its gentle curve designed to align the house with neighbouring houses.

Images showing some of images I took during my trip to Deoksu Palace.

As I am planning to merge the Korean traditional elements to my house design, I picked some elements that I think would be appropriate for the moment. They are: Traditional style wooden doors, stone staircase with protective demons, traditional style gate & fencing.

I plan to include them as small elements rather than creating a modern version of Korean traditional house so I picked ones that are quite minimal and could act as a distinct point.

Above images show primary images of cut out pattern used in wooden outer seating design. They grabbed my attention as the patterns reminded me of traditional Korean pattern used in architectural elements and lighting. They were also in groups so was quite a scene.

I was then able to realise the restaurant that these belongs to was a Korean restaurant.

Primary images of the Vauxhall bus station. I thought I could get inspired from this gigantic metal sculptural bus station by its sleek form, visual properties of metal, boldness of the shooting up part.

I also thought that minimising the scale to manipulate for my own house design could add a distinctive character.

From my site visit to IKEA, I was able to gather some of my favourite interior examples. The left and middle images show an example of a Victorian living room. In this part, I liked the blacked-out walls that adds sense of luxury, traditional western fireplace and the chandelier.

The right image shows an outer space like a part of a garden where I liked the plantation on the roof railing, white frames and lighting accessories.

The three images show different kitchen styles. Mostly neutral colours.

I paid close attention to the use of natural sources, colour schemes and lighting to my taste. Many consisted black, both glossy and matte and consisted wood. Practically, the wood in the kitchen could change colour or decay by time or frequent water residue so I was not totally sure of ones that had wood near a sink or gas hob.

The design on the right reminded me of the kitchen I had in the past as it also had a mini TV.

The show examples of prefabricated houses by Huf Haus GmbH & Co. KG. Originated in Germany but has an office in Weybridge also.

The house itself mainly uses timber and glass for exterior parts and a lot of glass are incorporated to feel spacious inside, let a lot of natural light in.

I liked their manipulatable designs, they could look traditional or modern such as by roof styling. I was able to see a similarity of their designs to the house from ‘Parasite’.

The above shows lighting materials built in Korean traditional patterned outer shell that could be hung or stuck. I thought a free standing one might be a nice decorative feature.

Image on the left showing extra wooden traditional style door designs and thick wood front door style for inspiration.

I would need to decide which I would use for the front door of the property.

Being used as an art centre, The building considered to be converted from a warehouse as the overall form is a rectangular shape, the front end has an added decoration on the top of what seems like thin concrete. The overall structure is simple with not much detail, decoration and colour especially.

Above are some examples of residential properties that relate to my desired designs. They have similarities in their designs as they all consist garage spaces, simplistic styling and mostly involves straight lines.

From above examples, I would take the concept of having a balcony with glass barrier, use of wooden exterior material.

From left example, I would want to take the concept of positioning parts of the house differently.

The traditional method of making high-end furniture in South Korea is called ‘Na Jeon Chill Gi’, incorporating cur out sea shells’ reflective side shows shiny, reflective decoration and changes colour on light direction.

Part of my sub project of designing a car showroom. As I have not fully done that project, I decided to pull some parts as an inspiration which would be useful when designing my dream underground garage. Ferrari is the brand I admire the most, so a section of the garage would be decorated like image on the left and remaining sections similar look to image on the right.

An American minimalistic artist famous for installations using commercially usable florescent lights. It was since 1963 when he started to mainly use fluorescent lights, he did paintings and collages before and were presented in Judson Gallery, New York. I think the lightings can guide the visitors to take a specific direction or paths. A method of controlling the audience’s movement. As the colours of the lights vary work to work, they give off different vibes in the room, some cold like blue, some warmer feel or unusual.

An American artist concerned with cosmologic and lights. An ongoing project called ‘The Roden Crater’ is most well-known. The artist’s works were created based with the materiality of natural light, emotional aspect that it emits.

As can be seen from his works, the skies are always visible through the roof of the structures in various colours and feel. The Roden Crater is said to be an interactive landscape art where visitors can walk into the extinct volcanic cinder cone and be immersed with effects of the sun, moon, stars and much more.

A British artist who mainly does installations using beam projectors shining image onto walls. According to his statement, his current works solely consist Reynard the Fox - popular in European folkloric tales.

Mostly, the images are sharp, crisp with no background. The colours are quite vibrant that shows well the look of the characters in the dark well.

An American conceptual artist mostly works around surrealism through painting, sculpture, installation and video. Investigates aspects regarding consumerism, culture, mythology and novels through use of every day materials. As can be seen above, he uses references to fluorescent lightings lit up in vibrant, various colours. Some works they form a structure while others being used to support existing scenes.

The J House is a luxury, modern 7-bedroom house situated on a sloping hill. The house consists various extras such as swimming pool, garage for multiple cars and tennis court. The house also consists elements to create sustainability and to generate energy itself such as solar panels on the roof, uses if double glazing and water recycling.

The house contains high quality materials such as natural/man-made stones, genuine brass trimmings for door handles and handrails to give contrast to natural themes.

The client for this house did not want the house to look too flashy but considering its resale value at the same time.

I could take the concept of the overall exterior design of this property as it matches my own taste for looking modern and elegant at the same time. I feel that the colour scheme of this property took a big part as the dark colour scheme with varied tone create luxuriousness and warm coloured lighting also took part to this.

I also liked the concept of having a small pond within the house and modern, sleek and the contrast between manmade objects and natural resources used in interior.

The above example has a similar story to my desired design. The client was a car, motorbike enthusiast so he wanted to see the car from his bedroom. His wife wanted to have a room where she could spend quiet time.

Hence, Horibe Associates has positioned the garage on ground level, sections of concrete walls with glass sliding door next to a bedroom, durable and reinforced concrete on first floor to achieve tranquillity, a courtyard at the end of the garage to release vehicle noise.

What I would want to take from this example would be the ability of seeing the vehicles within the property, organic, natural but simplistic interior scheme and being able to enjoy some quiet time.

This example includes a unique blend between modern and traditional within Korean traditional architecture.

Mt. Bukhan takes part of the background of the property and a forest in the foreground. The property is divided in two floors and as the site is a slope, from higher ground, only the top floor is visible but when coming down the slope, the ground floor is visible with a car park. The top right image shows the parked MINI below the enormous roof of the property and I liked the contrast between an aggregation of modern technology with ancient Korean architecture.

I liked that there is a sunken part of the house (top left) where geographically, a basement but they have designed it to have spacious feel outside by creating a patio and to make it let light/air in so that it does not feel like a basement.

When inside the property, the modern, mostly white with modern style furniture makes the visitor forget that they are in a modernised Hanok (Ancient Korean house).

The architect says: ‘This project shows the capacity of the evolution of the traditional Korean Hanok. Thanks to this new shape and the new technologies, this house was able to free some architectural and mechanical constraints from the traditional Hanok and produce more comfort, light and space. Knock Knock Heon fits the need of the modern society but in the same allow a coexistence between the traditional and modern lifestyles.’

What I could take from this example to my own design would be the blend of ancient Korean architectural elements with modern elements, designing the property so that it creates harmony with its background/surroundings