SPACE October 2025 (No. 695)
On Movement
In the past, my work needed to situate itself within the history and language of architecture; it was how I made my roots explicit. I also regarded it as natural – part of creation itself – that personal memories and tendencies would mix with those roots and ‘contaminate’ them. Movement lay at the centre of my practice. In the cinematic architecture I studied at the AA School, time, the motion of matter, and existence approached one another as near-synonyms. Putting aside film as a medium, introducing movement to architecture was the principal task of my early work. In my youth, modern space felt to me like Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000): a field where morals, decorum, and every value collapsed and became non-space. Survival meant staying in motion, without settling or dwelling. Cold and dark, yet leaving a residual warmth as layered values and moments drifted, the house stood like the city’s very centre, part of its endless circuits and flows. Movement, to me, was freedom and travel—a widening of dimension that goes beyond the fetters of fixed perception.
How, then, can fixed walls and columns be made to movement? First, as in the nave and chapels of a Gothic cathedral, repeat walls and columns create rhythm and depth. Second, superimpose walls and columns along multiple axes, not just one, to blur boundaries. Third, favour rectangles over squares, and nested rectangles over simple ones. Fourth, wherever possible, glaze the wall corners that articulate scale with transparent glass. And finally, admit light always as indirect light from afar. In short, the aim is to dissolve definitive interior–exterior lines across the directional flows of east–west–south–north and into the hierarchies of up and down. There were no enclosed rooms in the traditional sense. The corners of walls and the ...
Architecture of Light Architects (Park Jeantaek)
Yangpyeong-eup, Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, Kore
single house
489m²
108.48m²
199.63m²
3F
2
9.75m
22.18%
40.82%
RC (1F), wooden structure (2 – 3F)
exposed concrete, ceramic siding
hinoki plywood, porcelain tile
Institute of Structure IN Design
Daekwang Engineering Co., Ltd.
owner-construction
Apr. 2022 – Mar. 2023
Apr. 2023 – Oct. 2024
700 million KRW
Yang Donghee
