Architectural design for me has come to represent everything learned prior to any design at all. In other words, the act of design cannot truly begin until thorough observation of what exists on site-(potentially a past, present, and projected future), in addition how the site is to be used by the owner/ inhabitant, and ultimately a relationship within the greater environment has been critically examined.
Prior to the onset of design for a rural South Korean residence, I spent days observing how the owner's currently live on site (fortunately for me). The importance of outdoor activities in the landscape, even beyond what normally transpires within their existing house, provided a foundational organization for a new house proposal. Each space in the new residence is planned with reference to the outside landscape, even if only through visual connection or the admittance of natural light in clerestory configurations.
A central indoor-outdoor space marks entry and delineates between the 'public' and more 'private' spaces of the home. It's function, symbolically beyond entry, will certainly come to be a place of central gathering for eating, resting and entertaining. This mediating space interstitially divides between a painting gallery and dwelling space. How does one account for years of history and and cultural traditions without repeating an expected architectural language? It was the design intent of this project to balance significant historical 'memory' while maintaining an interpretation of momentary life today.
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