SPACE September 2024 (No. 682)
A winding and rugged coastline unexpectedly forms a land mass jutting out into the sea. The land is covered with wild forests untouched for a long time, and a hillside is surrounded with old pine trees. When the sea surface is calm, the sky and sea become a continuous blue background, making the pine trees more vivid against this backdrop. The first task after we started the design was to record the position of the pine trees on the site. Then we placed the building on the vacated land where the pine trees were not growing. This is similar to the way of locating houses on the seashores of the South Sea in Namhae in old times. As a result, houses in Namhae village are shaped by the land itself and blend into the surrounding landscape.
