It is inspiring to see how the master treats the volumes separately and connects them. korean traditional architecture, more specifically scholars' dwellings (formal architecture from the confucian dynasty followed very strict hierachical orders and symmetries) opened up to surrounding nature allowing varying directionality and shifting views outward when possible (compared to inward found in traditional chinese dwellings) as translated in this house. if you look at the slides 6 and 7, which is the mudroom connecting the living unit facing the mountain and the sleeping quarters with the dinning room facing the meadow, you can see that the ground floors of the two volumes are not on the same level: there are steps up to the living unit and down to the sleeping quarters. you can imagine it is because of the topography, but it also seems to set up foundations for other advantages such as the view, the geometry and so forth. in other words, the mudroom becomes an interesting piece of puzzle, which resolves the contradiction between two larger volumes: structurally, it belongs to the living unit sharing the same roof while spatially, it is closer to the sleeping quarters. having been evolved as a solution to make the transition between two morphologically separate units, this sort of hybrid element is found in some traditional dwelling typology.
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It is inspiring to see how the master treats the volumes separately and connects them. korean traditional architecture, more specifically scholars' dwellings (formal architecture from the confucian dynasty followed very strict hierachical orders and symmetries) opened up to surrounding nature allowing varying directionality and shifting views outward when possible (compared to inward found in traditional chinese dwellings) as translated in this house. if you look at the slides 6 and 7, which is the mudroom connecting the living unit facing the mountain and the sleeping quarters with the dinning room facing the meadow, you can see that the ground floors of the two volumes are not on the same level: there are steps up to the living unit and down to the sleeping quarters. you can imagine it is because of the topography, but it also seems to set up foundations for other advantages such as the view, the geometry and so forth. in other words, the mudroom becomes an interesting piece of puzzle, which resolves the contradiction between two larger volumes: structurally, it belongs to the living unit sharing the same roof while spatially, it is closer to the sleeping quarters. having been evolved as a solution to make the transition between two morphologically separate units, this sort of hybrid element is found in some traditional dwelling typology.
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