Forest and House

Sunchang-gun, South Korea

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Forest and House

Sunchang-gun, South Korea

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JHW IROJE architects&planners

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2016

The client, who is a professor and an engineer, is facing retirement in three years time. He wants to prepare for this second life, where he will enjoy the surrounding environment in a nature-friendly home.

A house is built on a small mountain, land borrowed from Mother Nature. The trees are carefully dug up in order to set the house's foundations. Because the lot is borrowed from nature, the creation of a yard for human pleasure was felt to be unnecessary. There is only a small path leading towards the entrance. As there is no yard, the entire surrounding environment-where one lays his/her eyes becomes the yard.

Each room is widely scattered and placed on the edge of the site. The shell shaped rooms seem to occupy the site at its widest reaches, but they actually take up a minimal land area. The smaller the architecture, the more abundant the relationship with nature. A glass house is placed between the areas of the rooms. A roof panel is placed on top at a tilted angle. Building a glass house that is to be part of nature, allows one to be as close to nature as possible by becoming nature itself.

The forest shares the house and the house shares the forest by allowing one to step out from the functional spaces of life. The social relationship transforms the act of occupation to an act of sharing, becoming the starting point for the client's second life.

Architect : JHW IROJE architects (Jung Hyowon)
Design team : Lee Jungmin, Jo hyunwoo
Location : 45-13, Hari, Sunchang-gun, Jeollanam-do, Korea
Programme : detached house
Site area :3,306.1m2
Building area : 203.24m2
Gross floor area : 217.42m2
Building scope : Yeoyeodang-B1,1F/ Daseodang-B1,1F/ nokjung-1F/ Chungbang-1F/ Jego-1F
Parking : 2
Height : 7m
Building to land ratio : 6.14%
Floor area ratio : 6.14%
Construction : Youngchang Construction
Mechanical engineer : Kwanduk mec
Electrical engineer : Woolim electronical engineering&consulting;
Lighting engineer : Newlite Architectural Lighting Design&Imports;
Design period : July 2013 - Mar 2014
Construction period : May 2015 - Apr 2016

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