SPACE October 2024 (No. 683)
What is a room? Under what conditions do we call a space a room, and what do we anticipate will take place within it? Reflecting deeply on a subject is clearly a conceptual task, but it’s often rooted in real-world experiences. When the homeowners mentioned, ‘We get along well, but we’d like to have separate spaces in this house,’ the idea of a house with multiple rooms came to mind, prompting me to reconsider what truly defines a room.
The word ‘room’ is mostly associated with residential properties, but it’s also used in other contexts such as nurseries, chat rooms, or playrooms, all of which carry a more personal or self-contained meaning. A house, in particular, is a work of architecture that centres around the individual. During conversations conducted with the two homeowners, who requested a weekend home, it emerged that both had published books on travel and food, and both held a deep appreciation for cooking. Given that personal spaces and rooms were central to this project, I didn’t follow the common approach of creating a design with a certain number of rooms (like nR+nLDK). Instead, throughout the design process, I focused on envisioning what kind of daily life the couple w...
Jiyo Architects (Kim Sejin)
Bae Changhyeon, Jeong Woo-june
Shinya-ri, Anmyeon-eup, Taean-gun, Chungcheongnam
single house
682㎡
92.9㎡
96.84㎡
2F
1
8.95m
13.62%
14.2%
RC
stucco, Low-E glass, zinc coated steel sheet
water paint on gypsum board
MIDO Structural Consultants
Doohyun M&C
MK ChungHyo
direct undertaking work
Mar. – Sep. 2022
Mar. – Dec. 2023
Na Duyoung