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 fundamental dwelling in South Korea’s capital.
The home is constructed on a slim website measuring 18 metres in size by simply 4 metres in width. Its setting knowledgeable its design, which goals to profit from views in the direction of the close by Bukhansan mountains.
The challenge options on the shortlist for the agricultural home class at Dezeen Awards 2022.
The rooms at Bugok Friday Home – a lounge, eating room, kitchen, lavatory and bed room – are organized in a single row so the household can look out on the surroundings from each area.
“Our aim was to design a home the place they may get pleasure from 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 function easy pitched roofs with prolonged eaves. Hanok properties additionally typically incorporate passive options for heating and cooling the interiors.
A big overhanging roof supported by a row of columns protects the residing areas in Bugok Friday Home from direct daylight in the course of the scorching summer season 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 may possibly enter by means of the ground.
A picket 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 function of hanok homes, the daecheong-maru.
In whole, round 23 sq. metres of the constructing’s constructed space of 80 sq. metres includes coated outside areas that present cool, shaded areas for the household to assemble and chill out.
As with conventional hanok homes, landscaping inside the website is saved easy to keep up the viewer’s give attention to the surroundings. Varied species of flowering bushes positioned to be seen from inside the home will bloom at completely different occasions all year long.
The constructing has a roof comprised 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 sleek decrease part.
Inside the home, TRU Architects designed the principle eating and residing area with a degree change on both facet of the central island unit, in order that these sitting on one facet can converse at eye degree with these standing on the opposite facet.
The residing space is positioned on one facet of the home’s entrance corridor, with a toilet, space for storing and sleeping space on the alternative facet 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 residing area.
The images is by Yousub Music.