基地是坡洲书城的一个街区，边界条件各不相同：北部是公共绿地，东部为主干道，南部是人车混行道，西部是需徒步到达的购物中心。建筑具有出版社所需的四个功能：办公室、书店、音乐厅及画廊、业主公寓以及部分公司成员的潜在住宅。对这两个条件的研究启发了一个具有四种不同成分的建筑，成为四个相对独立的两层微观结构：地面层西部为书店 / 商业建筑与其他零售业功能相连，具有内向立面的音乐厅－画廊 / 文化建筑坐落在东部面向车道；南向的办公建筑位于二层并与底层形成90度夹角，而居住建筑坐落在比较私密的北侧面向景观。二层建筑的转向为办公室和住宅提供了南向日照，并与底层的两个建筑共同形成一个开放的中心空间，把城市质量引进这个综合体中,四个微建筑通过两种方式实现进一步区分：一为利用剖面的不同组织形式形成差异，一为在“三明治”式玻璃幕墙中部填塞的不同的天然材料：泥土、芦苇、棉花、木屑分别对应文化、经济、居住和办公。
A block of the Paju Book City, the site is defined by four different edges: public green space on the north, major thoroughfare on the east, pedestrian and vehicle shared street on the south,pedestrian oriented shopping mall on the west. Housing the publisher Samho,the building has a four-fold program: offices, bookstore, concert hall plus gallery, and apartments for the owner and possibly a few others in the company. The analysis of these two sets of given conditions generates an architecture design of four components or four relatively independent two-story micro-structures: On the ground level, bookstore / Commercial Building on the west aligned with other retails, concert hall-gallery / Cultural Building on the east with an enclosed elevation toward the traffic lanes; stacked on the upper level and turned 90 degrees, Office Building on the street front south, while Residential Building on the more private north side facing the landscape. The rotation of the upper buildings offers southern exposure to the offices and apartments and, together with two buildings bellow, forms an open center space, which brings urbanity inside the complex. Each micro-building is further distinguished by a distinct sectional organization and with the natural material that makes up the inner content of the “sandwich” glass curtain wall: earth, reed, cotton, and wood shavings for Cultural, Commercial, Residential and Office respectively.