SPACE-Expanding Boundaries and Creating Flow: HOMI

SPACE Jun 2024 (No. 679)

©Roh Kyung

What Would a House Made of Stone Walls and the Horizon Look Like on Jeju Island?

This project is to design a small house on a site of about 660m2 on Jeju Island. Jeju Island brings the images of basalt stone walls and the endless horizon to mind. Both are elements of an exotic landscape that is a rare sight for me in Seoul, surrounded by concrete buildings and mountains. I started to imagine ‘a house made of stone walls only and with a roof like the horizon’, incorporating the characteristics of the island. First of all, I wanted to maximise one’s sense of the natural realm in this house, so I decided to design a single-storey house. The site can accommodate a three-storey house within the allowed total floor area, but who would want to build and live in a three-storey house in Jeju Island? City people seek the serenity of a single-storey house. And single-storey houses catch the sun better in the yard.

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Hyunjoon Yoo

Hyunjoon Yoo is a professor at Hongik University and he leads Hyunjoon Yoo Architects. He studied architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Yonsei University, and worked at Richard Meier & Partners Architects. He has won numerous awards both domestically and internationally, including the Chicago Athenaeum Architecture Awards, German Design Award, Young Architect Award, Kim Swoo Geun Architectural Prize Preview Award, and the President’s Prize for Korean Space Culture Awards. He is known as a ‘humanistic architect’ for his diverse books and broadcasts that provide insight into the world through architecture. His YouTube channel, ‘Sherlock Hyunjoon’, currently has 1.23 million subscribers.