Guest House Rivendell

Guest House Rivendell
© Joon Hwan Yoon
Guest House Rivendell
© Joon Hwan Yoon

GUEST HOUSE RIVENDELL

IDMM Architects

ARCHITECTS
IDMM Architects

TEXT
Kwak, Hee Soo

CONSTRUCTION
Jehyo E&C

MECHANICAL ENGINEER
GK MEC

ELECTRIC ENGINEER
Kukdong

LANDSCAPE
STUDIO terra

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
S.D.M Partners

PHOTOGRAPHS
Joon Hwan Yoon

AREA
721 m²

YEAR
2012

LOCATION
Gapyeong-gun, south korea

CATEGORY
House

Text description provided by architects.

Among its many types, residential architecture is extremely limited when it comes to experimentation. 

Guest House Rivendell
© Joon Hwan Yoon
Guest House Rivendell
© Joon Hwan Yoon

Who would want to live like a guinea pig in highly private space in which his or her life unfolds? In order to weigh up the singularity of the architecture of a residential building, the search for relationships between spaces could be a better approach than searching for 'newness'.

Relationships between the building's layout and the land upon which it stands, and the way in which it fits in among the buildings around it are to be interrogated. The Guesthouse Rivendell sits on a plot that measures 3300㎡, a size rather large for a house.

Guest House Rivendell
© Joon Hwan Yoon
Guest House Rivendell
© Joon Hwan Yoon

The architect has been careful, therefore, to position the structures so as to avoid making the house look too small and the leaving the rest of the site looking like a desert.

Perhaps the way its body spreads out like limbs in every direction, too, is a way of dividing up the large plot and making the outer surface of the building as large as possible.

Guest House Rivendell
© Joon Hwan Yoon
Guest House Rivendell
© Joon Hwan Yoon

Sequence is an important concept when it comes to this building. Unlike that of conventional house, this building's upper and lower parts are divided and its long lines of flow extend like unraveling spools of thread.

The view placed over this building's sequence, then, is interrupted and divided. It is difficult to rate it as a new principle in architecture or an experimental home.

Guest House Rivendell
© Joon Hwan Yoon
Guest House Rivendell
© Joon Hwan Yoon

When you go inside the house and look outwards, however, you will have a sense of how the one thing in the world that we never tire of seeing is the exotic effect of nature and the architecture that mediates it:

anew perception of nature as its familiarity breaks up like a glass bead; witnessing nature as it changes at every moment and in every place.

Guest House Rivendell
© Joon Hwan Yoon


Guest House Rivendell
© Joon Hwan Yoon
Guest House Rivendell
© Joon Hwan Yoon
Guest House Rivendell
© Joon Hwan Yoon
Guest House Rivendell
© Joon Hwan Yoon


Guest House Rivendell
Basement Floor Plan
Guest House Rivendell
First Floor Plan
Guest House Rivendell
Second Floor Plan
Guest House Rivendell
Site Plan


Guest House Rivendell
Section 1
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Section 2
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Section 3
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Section 4


Guest House Rivendell
Elevation 1
Guest House Rivendell
Elevation 2
Guest House Rivendell
Elevation 3
Guest House Rivendell
Elevation 4