연희동 주택
YeonHui-Dong House, a cross-shaped planned with four different yards of different roles
연희동의 주택들은 규모와 형태, 분위기마저도 대부분 비슷하다. 구릿빛 동판을 두른 십자형 주택은 다소 심심한 그 풍경 속에서 과하지 않으면서도 은근하게 제 존재감을 드러내고 있다.
건축주의 요구는 크게 두 가지였다. 네 명의 자녀를 위한 독립적인 공간들과, 집에 머무는 시간이 긴 자신을 위한 안식처를 만들어 달라는 것. 그 해법으로 십자형 배치가 제시됐다. 필지 네 귀퉁이에 각기 다른 크기와 성격의 외부공간을 조성함으로써 자연스럽게 영역별로 독립성을 확보한 것이다.
YeonHui-Dong, Seoul, is known as a village for conservative upper-middle class from the late sixties. It settled on a slow slope from northwestern long and low hillside. The front garden of the houses are leveled up one floor higher than the front street. A block is composed with six or eight lots each of them are about 330m².
In Korea, ordinay people dream about having a large garden in the front of the house. YeonHui-Dong’s overall village layout is the clearest evidence of this desire. In consequence, most of the houses have neighboring houses on three sides with 2 meters wide outdoor corridors with a low wall in the middle. This typical arrangement has determined the homogeneous shape of the village.
The client with four children of 1,3,5,7 years old at the time of the commission is a successful business man over 40. He wanted to give a room to each child and his own private room to stay isolated for his work at home.
골목길에는 두 개의 외부공간이 맞닿아 있다. 하나는 널찍한 차고이고 다른 하나는 진입로다. 진입로에는 좁고 긴 외부공간의 특성을 반영해 계단을 둠으로써, 대지 내의 레벨 차를 극복하면서 자연스럽게 집 안으로 이끄는 동선을 완성했다. 또한 차고 위에는 이 집에서 가장 넓은 앞마당이 조성된다.
진입로와 앞마당이 비교적 개방적인 영역이라면 두 개의 뒷마당은 한층 더 사적인 영역이다. 특히 진입로 건너편에 자리한 가장 작은 마당은 건축주의 내밀한 방과 짝을 이루며 가끔이나마 아이들로부터 자유로워질 수 있는 개인적인 영역을 형성한다.
대지 네 귀퉁이를 열어두자 옆집과의 사이에 감춰져 있던, 높이도 재료도 제각각인 기존 담장들을 어떻게 할지가 중요한 문제로 떠올랐다. 대안으로 와이어 메쉬로 만든 1.8m 높이의 담장을 제시했다. 4cm 크기의 격자형 와이어 메쉬는 적절한 투과성을 지닐뿐더러, 짦은 시간내에 부식되어 그 상태를 유지하는 특성으로 담장들의 나이에 잘 들어맞는다.
또한 1층에는 4cm 넓이의 평철을 담장 메쉬와 같은 4cm 간격으로 촘촘히 대어 벽을 형성했다. 골조를 적절한 투과성으로 보여줌으로써, 골조의 다듬어지지 않은 물성과 와이어 메쉬, 그리고 시간차를 두고 녹슬어갈 평철의 물성은 재료의 풍부한 표현으로 이어질 것이다.
The site had such a stubborn positioning problem decades old that a cross shape plan with four different yards of different roles each was designated. Then unexpected distant views appeared and nearing old gardens were opened. Narrow and useless outdoor corridor in between buildings disappeared.
Positioning the kitchen between two lager yards permitted easy supervising of children playing in both yards expanding visual spaciousness of kitchen. On the long and thin yard a stair was installed to approach to the entrance. To the last cozy yard a hidden room was shared for the client.
Opened to four diagonal ends, a new problem was brought up for the layout. How to deal with the periphery.
On three sides facing neighboring houses, there were low walls of slightly different heights around 1.2m. 1.8m’s height was good to cover the walls and to keep the privacy. Metal wire mesh was chosen of 4cm grid. Easily rusting nature of metal wire-mesh and its transparency looks perfect. On the building sides of facing fences, instead, 4cm wide thin metal plate with 4cm distance was used. This row of metal plates must show and hide the concrete structure of house. The height must match to that of fence.
For the underground level facing the street, the concrete structure of the building is revealed.
Having neighbors so close, to guarantee a privacy of bedrooms the volume of the second floor must have been closed. Pitched roof gives spaciousness to the closed volume reminding other roofs of village and of distant hill. Two top lights are soaring up to the sky keeping inclinations of the roof. They are not so visible from outside but are dramatic from inside. Seen from above, they adds a subtle skyline to the village.
For the material for the second floor was chosen for paradoxical quality of differentiating and harmonizing. The copper material which is different from other two metal materials used in ground floor, it’s clear cut finishing with light reflecting surface will fade very slowly in time matching to the red bricks of adjacent houses.
The roof is enveloped with black asphalt sheet. This is to high light the hidden concrete structure visible on the street level but hides the structure on the first floor.
Each of the three different metals in this house has its distinctive and precise role. Three different time of ripe, thus three different ways of answering to the context being honest to its nature.
Having neighbors so close, to guarantee a privacy of bedrooms the volume of the second floor must have been closed. Pitched roof gives spaciousness to the closed volume reminding other roofs of village and of distant hill. Two top lights are soaring up to the sky keeping inclinations of the roof. They are not so visible from outside but are dramatic from inside. Seen from above, they adds a subtle skyline to the village.
I wanted use material which has paradoxical quality of differentiating and harmonizing for the second floor. The copper material which is different from other two metal materials used in ground floor, it’s clear cut finishing with light reflecting surface will fade very slowly in time matching to the red bricks of adjacent houses.
Lastly the roof is enveloped with black asphalt sheet. This is to high light the hidden concrete structure visible on the street level but hides the structure on the first floor.
I used three different kinds of metals in this house hoping that each one with precise role.
Three different time of ripe , thus three different way of answering to the context being honest to its nature.
작품명: 연희동 주택 / 위치: 서울시 서대문구 연희동 108-10 / 건축가: 이손건축 / 디자인팀: 손진, 이병철 / 시공사: C&O 엔지니어링 & 컨스트럭션 / 대지면적: 335.9m² / 건축면적: 155.31m² / 연면적: 328.11m² / 구조: 철근콘크리트 / 설계기간: 2013.12~2014.1 / 시공기간: 2014.2~10 / 사진: 김종오
Architects: ISON Architects / Location: Yeonhui-dong, Seoul, South Korea / Project Year: 2013-2014 / Project Area: 331.93 m² / Desing Team: Jean Son, Lee byung chul / Construction: C&O ENC / Materials: exposed concrete, red copperplate / Photograph: Jongoh Kim