IROJE Architects & Planners

The origin of IROJE comes from an old Chinese Literature. The meaning of IROJE, translating directly, is ‘a house of stepping on dewdrops’. The story from the Chinese Literature goes like this; there was a poor living scholar who served his old father. Every early morning he used to go to the quarter where his father lived, wearing an overcoat, and wait for his father to wake up. When his father came out, the scholar handed over his warmed overcoat to his father. The way to his father’s quarter was covered with dewdrops in the morning, thus the true meaning of IROJE could be understood as a house for a scholar with voluntary poverty. Architects and planners of IROJE have gone through diverse projects by questioning ‘how to define the design identity of our generation’. We are strongly convinced that our philosophy in architecture will enable us to understand the true nature of environments and enhance our everyday life to a better state. Furthermore, we believe our community to become a society of wisdom, which also becomes the virtue of IROJE in this era.