SPACE August 2025 (No. 693)
As one ascends the hill in Cheongun-dong, a row of similar two-storey brick houses stands atop a retaining wall over 10m high. Of the seven houses built together here in 1987, this house, located at the innermost end, was once called the pine tree house due to two tall pine trees extending over the retaining wall. The client, who had lived here with his parents before moving to the U.S. after getting married, returned and traced the memories of the old house. Renovating the house became a way of reconnecting with severed time. The brick façade, preserved almost entirely as it was when first built, retains the traces of the past, while the already altered interior was reconstructed with a steel frame to meet current structural standards, with metal becoming the material that expresses a new conception of time. Circular steel c...
