South Korea’s conventional hanok properties knowledgeable the design of this compact home on a mountainside in Bugok, Changnyeong County, which options semi-outdoor areas for enjoyable in the summertime.
Bugok Friday Home was designed by Seoul-based TRU Architects for a household who wished a countryside retreat they may go to at weekends from their most important dwelling in South Korea’s capital.
The home is constructed on a slim web site measuring 18 metres in size by simply 4 metres in width. Its setting knowledgeable its design, which goals to take advantage of views in direction of the close by Bukhansan mountains.
The mission options on the shortlist for the agricultural home class at Dezeen Awards 2022.
The rooms at Bugok Friday Home – a front room, eating room, kitchen, toilet and bed room – are organized in a single row so the household can look out on the surroundings from each area.
“Our objective was to design a home the place they may take pleasure in each indoor and outside views of the beautiful mountains and a quiet village,” TRU Architects mentioned.
The constructing’s design relies on conventional Korean hanok homes, which generally characteristic easy pitched roofs with prolonged eaves. Hanok properties additionally usually incorporate passive options for heating and cooling the interiors.
A big overhanging roof supported by a row of columns protects the dwelling areas in Bugok Friday Home from direct daylight in the course of the scorching summer time months, whereas permitting winter daylight to heat the rooms.
The constructing can be raised above the bottom in order that cooling breezes passing beneath it could actually enter by way of the ground.
A wood deck that extends round the home remembers conventional coated balconies often known as a toen-maru. The deck connects with a semi-outdoor room that was knowledgeable by one other typical characteristic of hanok homes, the daecheong-maru.
In whole, round 23 sq. metres of the constructing’s constructed space of 80 sq. metres contains coated outside areas that present cool, shaded areas for the household to assemble and calm down.
As with conventional hanok homes, landscaping inside the web site is stored easy to keep up the viewer’s deal with the surroundings. Numerous species of flowering timber positioned to be seen from inside the home will bloom at totally different instances all year long.
The constructing has a roof made out of corrugated metal that was additionally used because the formwork for the exposed-concrete exterior partitions. A horizontal datum separates the higher corrugated part of the wall from the graceful decrease part.
Inside the home, TRU Architects designed the primary eating and dwelling area with a degree change on both aspect of the central island unit, in order that these sitting on one aspect can converse at eye degree with these standing on the opposite aspect.
The dwelling space is positioned on one aspect of the home’s entrance corridor, with a toilet, space for storing and sleeping space on the alternative aspect of the home.
Additionally shortlisted within the rural home class for Dezeen Awards 2022 is a home on a Scottish island that references relics of agricultural buildings, and an Italian dwelling with a ficus tree rising within the centre of the dwelling area.
The pictures is by Yousub Music.
