sky light

BCHO Architects has design a 14m x 17m concrete box, buried in the ground and contains 6, 1-pyeong, rooms and two earth filled courtyards. This ‘small house’ is open to the courtyard which is open to the sky. The one pyeong rooms originated from the size of one kan (6×6 ja; 1 ja = approx. 30cm) which are just large enough for an adult to lie down straight. The house has a small kitchen, a study, two resting rooms, a bathroom with a wooden tub and toilet, and a wash room. The rooms are all adjacent to each other and open directly to the earth filled courtyard. Connecting rooms can be joined to create a bigger room. The house doors are intentionally small so that entering the house requires the visitor to make their body smaller.

Yoon Dong-joo, the Korean poet would have been proud of this house. A house of the sky and its respect to the earth, sky and stars above.