SPACE August 2026 (No. 705)
Installation view of Gutter façade by bus architects (2026) Image courtesy of Clayarch Gimhae Museum
Cubic House, Clayarch Gimhae Museum
April 17 – November 29, 2026
Clayarch Gimhae Museum celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Crossing mountains and rivers to reach the museum, I was met with an unexpected stillness. It was a weekday, and the museum’s main exhibition venue had been closed for renovation works. Against this backdrop, it seems only fitting that the museum’s 20th-anniversary exhibition should take as its theme the ‘wrinkles’ inscribed upon architecture through the passage of time and the ‘layers’ that nurture and build upon those traces. How, then, does this exhibition reveal the wrinkles accumulated over the course of the museum’s twenty-year history? And in what ways does it add new layers to them?
Installation view of Amateur Armature (2026, centre) and Seosan Good House (2026, on the right screen) by Lee Yoonseok. Image courtesy of Clayarch Gimhae Museum
Architecture Shaped by Everyday Traces
‘Wrinkles and Layers’, curated by Jung Sungkyu (Co-Director, CAC), proposes that architecture should not be understood as a finished object completed at a single moment in time, but as an everevolvingcondition, continually transformed through use, maintenance, and environmental intervention. Cracks, gaps in the joints, and the marks of wear have traditionally been regarded as imperfections to be concealed or erased. Here, however, such traces are presented as the very evidence that water, air, and light have passed through a building—and, in doing so, as proof that architecture remains alive. Known for finding architectural ideas within ordinary, personal experiences, bus architects (Co-Principals, Park Jihyeon, Cho Seonghak) present six works that place gutters and downpipes at the centre of our attention. For a practice that frequently works with timber construction – where controlling the movement of water is especially critical – rain gutters are more than mere functional elements; they are architectural devices capable of generating a remarkable range of spatial experiences. Photographs, models, and sketches of ilwolilji (2022), iwoojip (2023), low atelier, high house (2023), and hoehyeonri house (2023) demonstrate the diverse architectural spectacles that rain gutters produce in completed buildings (covered in SPACE No. 682). As the architects explain: ‘The place where water falls, the direction in which it flows, and the sounds and landscapes that emerge as a result. They may seem insignificant, but on rainy days or mornings when dew gathers, these moments become just a little more visible.’
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