JMY Architects

Woljam-ri House

Woljam-ri House
© Joonhwan Yoon

WOLJAM-RI HOUSE

JMY architects

ARCHITECTS
JMY architects

DESIGN TEAM
Jinsoo Kim, Hyukhyu Shin, Kwangjae Ryu, Minji Kim, Seongmin Lee

CONSTRUCTION
CS Construction

COLLABORATOR S
MOA Structure

COLLABORATOR M
HL Consulting Engineers

COLLABORATOR E
Daewon Pobis

INTERIOR CONSTRUCTION
Site people

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Jaemin Yoon

PHOTOGRAPHS
Joonhwan Yoon

AREA
220 m²

SITE AREA
628.00㎡

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Woljam-ri, South Korea

CATAGORY
Houses


Text description provided by architect.

This is a country house that internally respects various life styles of three-generation family members as well as their communal life, and that externally encourages communications with neighbors and inverts aggressively disadvantages of the site.

Woljam-ri House
© Joonhwan Yoon
Woljam-ri House
© Joonhwan Yoon

The complex boundary between private and public, which is always born in communal life is reinterpreted as multi layers of vertical and horizontal planes in regard to functions and contexts.

LARGE BUT DIAGONAL-SHAPED SITE, ENVIRONMENTAL LIMIT

The site is the center of a basin surrounded by low hills, and it is of a diagonal shape with 628.00㎡.

Woljam-ri House
© Joonhwan Yoon
Woljam-ri House
© Joonhwan Yoon

The site is the lowest area within the basin, and neighboring houses are besieging the site along the hill flow.

The view is opened only to the east-south toward reservoir. And those have determined the architectural arrangement and openness of the house.

COUNTRY HOUSE FOR THREE GENERATIONS

The house basically consists of common space, grand parents’ space, parents’ space(1st floor) while the children’s space is with grand parents’ space.

ABUNDANT OUTDOOR SPACE AND SPACE AS A BUFFER ZONE

The diagonal shaped site that its shape is defined by the reversed ‘ㄱ’ shaped house, consists of three areas such as access road, courtyard and backyard with a water pond, and the spaces altogether make a circulating spatial narrative.

Woljam-ri House
© Joonhwan Yoon
Woljam-ri House
© Joonhwan Yoon

And with the two outdoor decks on the first floor, the number of space ends up becoming five.

Each outdoor space is formed as an extension of adjacent interior space, and they come to embrace spatial narratives of public space as a semi-private buffer zone against neighboring spaces and the surrounding nature.

CONTROLLED OPENNESS

It is achieved the maximum privacy level against neighbors while the openness of space is maintained through contemporary application of the secluded spatial arrangement of Han-ok in regard to geometry, context and program.

Woljam-ri House
© Joonhwan Yoon
Woljam-ri House
© Joonhwan Yoon

Living room is opened to the courtyard in the south, the view of the rooms on the 1st floor are designed to face the adjacent lake.

The wall fence plan was considered as a part of the architecture, and it was designed, when it is necessary, to block the views from the outside, yet without losing openness.

Woljam-ri House
© Joonhwan Yoon


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