SPACE November 2024 (No. 684)
Landscape of a Farming Village: Blue Barn
① Interview Cho Byoungsoo principal, BCHO Partners × Kim Jeoungeun editor-in-chief
② Interview Kim Seoyeon principal, Blue Barn × Kim Jeoungeun
③ Interview Ko Somi principal, SOMIDANG × Bang Yukyung
View of the stay, Blue Barn ©FRITZ HANSEN KOREA
A new hill behind the stay ©FRITZ HANSEN KOREA
① Interview Cho Byoungsoo principal, BCHO Partners × Kim Jeoungeun editor-in-chief
Kim: Why don’t we return to the story of the Blue Barn? This is a project in which the two warehouse buildings that the client’s father, who was a farmer, built himself, were repaired and a new stay home was built. Seen from the street, the metal building (Blue Building), which is now used as a café, and the stay (Stayzip, Zip lounge) are hidden behind the Barn Building, which has retained its original form. I think that’s why it looks more like an ordinary warehouse in the farming village than a building repaired by an architect. The client, Kim Seoyeon, had left her life in Seoul and returned to her hometown, beginning a new life as a farmer and needing to undertake other new work. Therefore, the warehouse, which is precious to her as her childhood playground and which still retains traces of her late father, had to be the basis for her to create a life different to her previous life. What was your first impression when you first saw the warehouse?
Cho: I love those kinds of rustic and shabby looking buildings. The Barn ...
