‘Unfinished House with Nine Rooms’ was on show at the Onground Gallery from July 4-26. The exhibition was a collaboration between an architect, client, and a photographer who all documented a building. The main character of the exhibition, AeLe House with 9 Rooms is a house for the painter AeGoe and her family (AeLe family), designed by NAMELESS Architecture.
Located at the foot of a mountain in Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, this house rejects the appearance of a typical house. Both the inside and outside of the house is made of exposed concrete with a total of nine rooms of 3x3 cells, which are organically connected to each other without a corridor. All of the rooms, except for the bathroom and the kitchen, are designed as a space without any specific functions so that they can be used flexibly at any time, depending on the needs and circumstances of the client. In this regard, ‘AeLe House with 9 Rooms looks like a concrete ruin. However, it is a work that reveals the possibility of an art of enriching life in frugal terms’, suggested Nam Sungtaeg (Professor, Hanyang University), adding that ‘a life that looks closed, as if hidden in the shell of a snail retiring into oneself, is actually a large window with no curtains or blinds, and is open to exposing the intimate scene of bedroom and bathroom to the surrounding nature without filtration’. (SPACE no.605)
Through Roh Kyung’s photos, this exhibition expores not only the design process of NAMELESS Architecture but also the scenes from daily life that fill the house. In addition, AeGoh’s paintings reflect the feelings enjoyed throughout the spaces of the house, communicating an experience of AeLe House with 9 Rooms. <by Park Semi>
