A Collective Style Representing the Era

The Guui-dong area, in the eastern part of Seoul, comprises many red-brick detached homes built in the 1980s. While villa-style buildings were newly constructed in the early 2000s, the area has retained its distinctive landscape, cherishing moments long past in each and every corner. The residential housing typical to the district, instigated by and representative of the real-estate boom of the 1980s, still features the semi-basements and individual access at each level. The building codes of the 1980s required every building to have a basement that could be altered into a bunker with relative ease at the outbreak of war. There was no need to dig deeper or to introduce a higher ceiling in the basement. Later on, as a result of the hike in the housing demand coupled with a desire to maximize rental income, the semi-basement was transformed into a