Closed house, Open house
ARCHITECTS
On Architects Inc.
STATUS
Built
AREA
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
YEAR
2019
LOCATION
Ulsan, South Korea
CATEGORY
Residential › Private House
I suggested a house with the “closed but open space”
as an alternative that can be both the house and
the literary museum.
To resolve the client’s anxiety of safety, I suggested
a house that would look thoroughly closed from
outside.
This house has an open interior which is completely
different from the outside, with all the spatial
partitions removed except for the main room.
The interior spaces are defined by the outdoor spaces. When turning your head to the left, you can see all the spaces inside and outside overlaid and connected into one.
The beams of light falling from the sky intersect in the interior space. Everywhere inside, you can feel the change of overlaid beams of light.
Everywhere inside, you can feel the change of overlaid beams of light. Someday when this house becomes a literary museum and welcomes visitors, it will be possible to connect all spaces into one by removing just one door of the main room.
Given the site is surrounded by rice paddies and mountains, I attempted to harmonize this house with such a landscape by creating a look of concrete attached with straw or bark.
Concrete was cast into the forms attached with cheap oriented strand boards (OSB) that had previously been exposed to the rain for a long time.