{"id":395184,"date":"2026-04-16T12:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395184\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:34:16","slug":"smurf-village-school-hyunjoon-yoo-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395184\/","title":{"rendered":"Smurf Village School \/ Hyunjoon Yoo + Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"js-image-size__link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1004539\/smurf-village-school-hyunjoon-yoo-architects\/64c02ae04b883f4664fedcbb-smurf-village-school-hyunjoon-yoo-architects-photo\" rel=\"attachment nofollow noopener\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Smurf Village School \/ Hyunjoon Yoo + Partners - Exterior Photography, Windows\" data-nr-picture-id=\"64c02ae04b883f4664fedcbb\" fetchpriority=\"high\" height=\"426\" itemprop=\"image\" loading=\"eager\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1004539\/smurf-village-school-hyunjoon-yoo-architects\/64c02ae04b883f4664fedcbb-smurf-village-school-hyunjoon-yoo-architects-photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/smurf-village-school-hyunjoon-yoo-architects_1.jpg\" style=\"min-height: var(--featured-height, auto); aspect-ratio: auto 640 \/ 426\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a>\u00a9 Kyungsub Shin<\/p>\n<p class=\"thumbs afd-desktop-e clearfix\"><a class=\"thumbs__link\" data-nr-picture-id=\"64c02adf4b883f4664fedcba\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1004539\/smurf-village-school-hyunjoon-yoo-architects\/64c02adf4b883f4664fedcba-smurf-village-school-hyunjoon-yoo-architects-photo\" rel=\"attachment nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Smurf Village School \/ Hyunjoon Yoo + Partners - 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People are influenced by built space, so we planned Songsan Middle School to have a variety of building groups and yards so that children can grow up in a village-like landscape that changes just by moving a few steps. We all want to raise our children to be more open-minded and endeavoring. And to do so, the fundamental shape and structure of the school needs to change. School buildings should be broken down into smaller blocks, with small yards and outside spaces in various shapes and forms in between the blocks where they can play around. I think our kids&#8217; school should feel more like a \u201cSmurfs\u2019 Village\u201d than one large building, which is the standard layout of schools seen in Korea.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/loader-blue.gif\" alt=\"Content Loader\" style=\"width: 40px; margin: 24px;\"\/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Kyungsub Shin + 21 Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1004539\/smurf-village-school-hyunjoon-yoo-architects \u00a9 Kyungsub Shin Text&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[859,437,434,435,436,438,5559,146,187737,85,46,6347],"class_list":{"0":"post-395184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-educational-architecture","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-hwaseong-si","17":"tag-il","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-schools"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}