Architects Group RAUM - Architect Oh Sinwook

BUFS Chapel

BUFS Chapel
© Yoon Joon-hwan

BUFS CHAPEL

Architects Group RAUM + Nikken Sekkei

CLIENT
Educational foundation Sung-ji School

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
In Structure Engineering

BUILDING SCOPE
4F

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
LJ ENC

DESIGN TEAM
No Jung-min, Ha Jeoung-un, Kim Dae-won, Yu Seong-cheol

PHOTOGRAPHER
Yoon Joon-hwan

SITE AREA
144,916.30 SQM

GROSS FLOOR AREA
1,249.31 SQM

AREA
495 M²

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Busan ,South Korea

CATEGORY
Chapel

Text description provided by architect.

Our senses open up when we sense a silence in a campus filled with sound, or when we feel darkness in a bright space.

BUFS Chapel
© Yoon Joon-hwan
BUFS Chapel
© Yoon Joon-hwan

In this space time, a soundless force strongly gestures to us. Intension of the design for the BUFS(Busan University of Foreign Studies) Chapel is to create a silhouette towards the entire campus, which stands for the ideology of the school.

'One cross', ‘one silhouette', and 'one light' became the central concept to make this a one and only being.

BUFS Chapel
© Yoon Joon-hwan
BUFS Chapel
© Yoon Joon-hwan

The one and only space creates new relationships by opening itself up to the surroundings.

Although it is not located on the dead center of the campus, it is expected to be the center of one's heart as the light fills up the surrounding space, which brings a holy atmosphere.

BUFS Chapel
© Yoon Joon-hwan
BUFS Chapel
© Yoon Joon-hwan

The volume which reveals the energy of the mountain will become an object, which will emphasize the ideology.

We revealed the structure through the materials of interior and the exterior and adapted the waffle slab structure in order to create space of 'the one'.

We only allowed bricks-which covers the whole campus-, white walls, and the object to sit on the top of the forest hill.

BUFS Chapel
© Yoon Joon-hwan
BUFS Chapel
© Yoon Joon-hwan
BUFS Chapel
© Yoon Joon-hwan

The bridge and the massive door become and object that symbolize the one, and offers the direction of the users.


BUFS Chapel
Floor plan
BUFS Chapel
Floor plan
BUFS Chapel
Floor plan
BUFS Chapel
Floor plan


BUFS Chapel
Elevstion
BUFS Chapel
Elevstion
BUFS Chapel
Elevstion
BUFS Chapel
Elevstion


BUFS Chapel
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BUFS Chapel
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Architects Group RAUM - Architect Oh Sinwook
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