SPACE October 2024 (No. 683)
Nakdong-ri is a small town near Sangju-si where Cut And Fill is located. There is a local bus service, but the waiting time is very long. Unfortunately, there is only one taxi driver who lives here permanently. The one-storey buildings, black-bean-sauce noodles for 5,000 KRW, and roads that are not only quiet but silent—all mark this out as very different from the city centre. The Cut And Fill, on the other hand, is a rather large building with the rather grandiose name of ‘a business centre’ that houses not only a research facility for ornamental fish, but also a spacious exhibition hall, a number of offices for rent to young entrepreneurs, and 12 accommodation rooms. The project began in November 2021 with the question: ‘Will this space work in Nakdong-ri, where there is no pedestrian traffic?’ As an architect, I tried to note my the efforts over about three years to make this space widely and actively used.
