The site is a village named ‘Beomuri’ because tigers often climbed on a large rock in front of the village and howled a long time ago, and currently, it is in a place called ‘Homyeongri’, surrounded by Byeongdusan Mountain, Dutasan Mountain, and Odaesan Mountain.
When designing the space, the first things coming to 100A Associates mind were ‘Songhamaenghodo’ (a painting of a fierce tiger under a pine tree) and ‘Jukhamaenghodo’ (a painting of a fierce tiger under a bamboo) by Danwon Kim Hongdo. The pine forest and bamboo forest in the two paintings respectively are meaningful as a place of meditation and enlightenment.
The space that exists with this concept pursued the blank and plainness (Lao-tzu’s idleness naturalism) to create the circulation of the mind through the circulation of nature’s vitality. The sloping land creates a horizontal axis, organizing a scene where the folds of the mountains and the boundaries of the spaces intersect beyond the place, a long axis that denies the boundaries and crosses the pond of projection that interacts with nature leads the movement to a large gap in the rock.
The reason why 100A Associates created a scene where the existence of muwi in the large gap of the rock is being between the trees and the rock, was to be beyond time and space, overwhelmed and with emptiness, to adapt from the time and space in the past and the present out of the night, out of the day, and out of the time, on the top of refined materials (dead trees and rocks). All of the spaces built on this site begin and end through these scenes' repetition and intersection.
- Architect: 100A Associates
- Photos: Jae Yoon Kim
- Words: Qianqian