SPACE January 2025 (No. 686)
Kim Kwangsoo principal, studio_K_works × Lee Jongkeun author
Homely – Unhomely
Lee Jongkeun(Lee): Perhaps because of the use of this building as a daycare centre, there is a lot of colour. What is the role of colour here? It is so heavily used it could be considered the guiding theme of the architecture, as colour can be found when approaching the building from the outside and here and there in the interior spaces?
Kim Kwangsoo(Kim): It is a metaphor for the saekdong jeogori. We thought long and hard about how to approach the use of colour. Then we thought that the ceiling should be in a bright colour to represent another dimension, while the walls below should be ivory coloured to support the ceiling reaching up to the children’s vitality, and to give a sense of something being formed by the children’s energy.
Lee: In terms of space, there is a clear distinction between the rooms and other areas that are not rooms. Even the ceiling height of the cafeteria, which is a social space, is as low as that of a room. By comparison, the corridor, or the space separating one room and another, is about twice as high as the rooms. Perhaps this is why it feels like children are wandering through the city, and I wonder if the scale of the space was deliberately differentiated.
Kim: That’s right. The spaces where the children stay for significant periods of time, such as the cafeteria and the children’s nursery, are designed with ...
studio_K_works + Curtainhall (Kim Kwangsoo)
Kwon Hyuktae
40-4 and 16 other parcels, Seomun-ri, Yangyang-eu
facility for the elderly and children
6,148.82㎡
2,328.82㎡
2,793.45㎡
B1, 2F
9
10.3m
37.87%
41.68%
RC, steel structure
EIFS (STO), brick, ceramic tile
carbonised cork, paint
Millenium Structure Engineering Co., Ltd.
Jusung Mechanical Engineering & Consulting
Woorim Electricity
Jan. 2021 – Feb. 2022
May 2022 – Feb. 2024
12.9 billion KRW
Yangyang-gun Office
STUDIOS terra, Kim Ahyeon
River and Rock (Lee Hyungseok)
Nature E&T Co., Ltd.
Sejeonyegun Co., Ltd.
DMZ Seasonal Birds Center, Gwangju Citizen platform, Pangyo Cave House, Hapcheon Cinema Park, etc, and as co-author, Labyrinths 1: References and Citations (2024), Jeju Phenominon (2016), Stadebauwelt_vlo9_Wonderland (2008), Slow city Sunchen (2007), faster and bigger (2007) are his publications.