Nature House / Concrete Workshop
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Text description offered by the architects. This undertaking embarked in a indifferent housing space within the housing website improvement district, which is adjoining to Jingwan-dong Hanok village, has been began with the aspiration to attain the dream of the shopper in 60s near retirement. The shopper’s requirement was easy. The shopper requested two issues: to allow the shopper to begin a day overlooking Mt. Bukhansan when the shopper opens their eyes at a bed room within the morning and to have a spacious lounge.





The current website positioned close to a highway having a width of 12M, which is the entry highway towards “Jingwansa Temple”, is especially crowded with floating inhabitants on the weekend. In consideration of this facet, it was the architect’s concern to guard the privateness of the shopper and on the identical time to find out how the home could possibly be perceived by the general public when it comes to metropolis planning.


These numerous circumstances functioned as components defining the sq. planar configuration and form of the home.
The exterior of the home was designed to embody sculptural feeling which strongly reveals the inherent gradation of supplies primarily based on uncovered concrete by which it’s attainable to get a way of the circulation of time by means of a change within the floor thereof. The sample of the uncovered concrete was separated into the pine plate design sample and plain design sample and thus it provides a sense as if two completely different lots are entwined. Wing partitions (uncovered concrete) put in on the first flooring and 2nd flooring itself develop into compelling design components of the home and on the identical time are essential gadgets defending the privateness of the shopper. The uncovered concrete wall physique perceptually spanning when wanting on the exterior from the within allows the viewer to have good pressure and on the identical time to have a psychologically secure feeling as if the viewer is protected against the skin.


Windows in numerous sizes are configured to be organically disposed of within the vertical circulation from the first flooring to the attic and thus it turns into attainable to actively see a change in nature. Also, a large-sized skylight put in in 4M x 5M measurement on the staircase chamber ceiling turns into mild effectively by means of which mild permeates to the lounge within the daytime, and provides a sense as if the watcher goes as much as sky seeing stars at night time. Black bamboos planted exterior the home windows of the staircase chamber allow folks to entertain their ears as leaves of the black bamboos are hit and thus rustled with one another when the wind blows. All these gadgets are outputs ensuing from the architect’s cautious consideration of make it attainable to impeccably really feel the attractive nature of Jinkwan-dong inside the home as effectively.

Rather than creating plenty of chambers when designing every house, the home was designed to maximise open feeling which could be felt inside by designing the primarily essential chamber to have as giant space as attainable, and to extend the coziness inside distinct chamber.
