The architect Cho Byoungsoo has long spoken of ‘Architecture Towards the Earth’. His works were mostly positioned organically on the ground and in nature, with a simple and concise demeanour. Throughout that process, Cho Byoungsoo explored an architectural element that not only responds to various conditions and contexts but also promotes rich phenomenal experiences: it is a ‘screen’, the third architectural vocabulary. Materials such as wood, punching metal, and expanded metal can be used 1) to transmit or block light, 2) to tie and put complex shapes together, and 3) as exterior materials. However, the screens designed by the architect Cho Byoungsoo do not simply exist as functional elements. The aesthetics of screens is discovered in the quality of space, in which the varying size, colours, and angles of the perforations are delicately tuned.

The architect Min Woosik (principal, Min Workshop) is bold in his use of form. Emphasising form in architecture requires a certain courage because it involves facing a self-induced critique of one’s personal aesthetic sense and a constant feeling of déjà vu, as one is reminded of the defining forms of other architects and structures. So this experimentation with form does not depreciate and become an empty effort, one not only requires a self-acquired internal logic but also intuitive energy and strategy that can persuade individuals with space. For this purpose, and echoing Chang Yongsoon’s (professor, Hongik University) words, Min ‘metaphorises and reinterprets original form’.

MoYeoGa means a house in which to live together, but it also means ‘to gather’ in Gyeongsang-do dialect. In reality, 30 members of 8 families here gathered to discuss the project with their architect, select the final site, and to determine the house design.