Jan
30

Camerata Music Studio, Gallery + Residence / BCHO Architects

AddThis Social Bookmark Button

camerata bcho architects

Situado en las afueras de Seúl, Camerata es un edificio unifamiliar con espacio abierto al público dedicado a la música, por BCHO Architects.

 

camerata bcho architects

camerata bcho architects

camerata bcho architects

camerata bcho architects

camerata bcho architects

camerata bcho architects

camerata bcho architects

camerata bcho architects

camerata bcho architects

camerata bcho architects

camerata bcho architects

camerata bcho architects

camerata bcho architects

1st floor plan

camerata bcho architects

2nd floor plan

camerata bcho architects

3rd floor plan

camerata bcho architects

East elevation

 

camerata bcho architects

South elevation

camerata bcho architects

Section AA'

 

 

camerata bcho architects

Section EE2'

camerata bcho architects

Details

 

 

El edificio está situado en una colina inclinada en un suburbio de Seúl, cerca de la frontera de Corea del Norte. El proyecto consta de dos programas claramente diferenciados. La primera de ellas es una residencia para una pequeña familia y la segunda es un espacio dedicado a escuchar música. El cliente tiene una gran colección de discos de vinilo antiguos de música americana del siglo XX los cuales escucha con un equipo de música antiguo de 1930.

El propietario de la vivienda fue presentador de noticias a nivel nacional, esta casa pretende ser su lugar de retiro en el cual vivir junto a su mujer y a su música. El estudio de música se abre al público general.

El diseño comenzó con una caja la cual acaba dividida en dos partes a lo largo del eje norte-sur, siguiendo la dirección de la colina y las vistas. Entre las dos masas, un jardín de agua se colocó junto con una escalera flotante de acero en voladizo. Esto permitió a la colina conectarse con la calle y la montaña a través del vacío.
La masa de divisora tiene la intención de crear una separación visual representativa de las diferentes características pedidas en el programa: una residencia y un espacio para escuchar música. La circulación principal se encuentra en el centro de la construcción, además, esto creó una relación mucho más dinámica entre el sitio y el espacio. Después de completar el recorrido a través de toda la longitud del edificio, los ocupantes se giran para tener una vista enmarcada de la montaña, el cielo y el espacio entre el jardín de agua en el segundo nivel.

Siguiendo con el concepto original de mantener lo más simple como fuera posible la caja, se coloca una malla de metal a lo largo de la fachada principal de la residencia. En los meses de verano en Corea, que suelen ser cálidos y húmedos, crece en la malla hiedra a la sombra de la residencia. Durante el invierno, la pantalla permanecerá abierta para permitir que la luz entre en la residencia.

Se pretende mantener la simplicidad en el interior de las cajas, mantener el espacio alargado rectilíneo lo más puro posible, sin columnas o vigas. Para lograr esto, una plataforma de madera grande fue suspendida desde el techo de la estructura de hormigón. El contraste entre estos dos elementos da como resultado un espacio primitivo y simple para escuchar música.

Ubicación: G-18 Heyri Art Vally, Beopheung-ri, Tanhyun-myeon, Paju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Uso: Residencia, música m2

Site area : 1,338 m2
Bldg.area: 549,03 m2

 


The building is placed on a sloping hill in a suburb of Seoul, near the North Korean border. The project contains two distinctively different programs. The first one is a residence for a small family and the second one is a L.P. music listening space. The client has a great collection of old L.P.s of 20th century American music and he listens to them with 1930’s antique stereo equipment, mostly from the U.S.
Once a nationally favored anchorman of Korea, he is preparing to retire and go back to his hometown area to rest and enjoy the rest of his life with his wife and music. The music listening studio is to be open to the general public or “whoever loves music.”

The design started with a box. I intended the box to remain as simple as possible, ruling out any formal expression outside. Then the box was split into two parts along the north-south axis, following the direction of the hill and the open view. Between the two masses, a water garden was placed along with a floating, cantilevered steel staircase. This allowed the natural features of the hill to the north to be connected to the street and mountain further away through the void.

The split mass was intended to create a visual separation to be representative of the distinct differences determined within the program: a residence and the L.P. music listening space. This was achieved by effectively creating a space between where the main circulation would be located through the middle of the building on the north-south axis. Furthermore, this created a much more dynamic relationship between site and space as the occupant would process between the two distinct masses that frame a view of the landscape behind. Upon completing passage through the entire length of the building, the occupant would then turn to view a framed view of mountain, sky and space among the water garden at the second level.

Keeping with the original concept of maintaining as simple of a box as possible, I implored the use of a metal mesh screen along the front of the residence continuing over to the music listening studio. The mesh screen served visually to complete the simple box concept. In the summer months in Korea, which are usually hot and humid, the screen will have ivy growing on it to shade the residence from the hot summer sun. During the winter, the screen will appear open to allow light into the residence during the cold Korean winters.

My most important concern was to maintain the simplicity inside of the boxes. Keeping the elongated rectilinear space as pure as possible without columns or beams was also an important concern for this music listening studio. To accomplish this, a large wooden platform was suspended from the ceiling of the concrete structure, constructed of sandwiched 2x12s. The contrast between these two elements results in a primitive and simple space as intended for listening to music.

In the end, the concrete box is just an envelope of the space. Thus, the concrete walls inside work as a background for the floating platform just as the concrete walls outside become the background for the landscape.

Location : G-18 Heyri Art Vally, Beopheung-ri, Tanhyun-myeon, Paju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Use : Residence, music cafe
site area : 1,338  m2
Bldg.area : 549.03 m2

 

 

(+) Info: BCHO Architects

Photos: YongKwan Kim

 


Add comment


Our Guests

La Casquería, Libros al peso

Our Guests

Oh-Dee

Our Guests

Market m*

Our Guests

MOA Seoul