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Thank you for your patience, English page for Joanne Studio is opening on 3 March, 2008!!
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Joanne Studio was introduced in September 2007 edition of Korean magazine “INTERIORS”
Here is brief summary of article in English.
original source: INTERIORS Sep.2007
Joanne Studio
There is a tangerine orchard beside two-lane roadway at Jungmun of province Jeju.
The orchard with the sea in front of it and the mountain Hallasan behind it,
contains somewhat high hill in its middle,
where pine trees have lived for a long time enclosed the other fruit trees.
Architecture communicates with earth.
It can only harmonize with nature if it should adapt itself to topography
and soil of earth on which it should be built.
It leans against on the high side and looks down the low side.
It can be a good architecture to see through the order of things embraced by the earth
when it see the earth with the affection toward even a stone which rolls on it.
A garden of secret has existed already in it with fifty pine trees over 100 years, moss and stonewall of black rough stones of Jeju.
In the cozy nest enclosed by pinetrees,
a studio for needleworked dolls comes into being.
The hero to make this studio built in this area with a fine view is “Joon Bear”,
teddy bear of Korean famous actor Yong-Joon Bae who has tremendous popularity in Japan. IMX (Interactive Media Mix), Japanese management company to which Yong-Joon Bae belong has sold “Joon Bears” limited to 5,000 in 2005.
This studio is born in Jeju close to Japan with a view to provide a space for Japanese who come in
and go out Korea in order to care for their “Joon Bear”.
In general, it is certain that designer plans a human-oriented space.
Therefore, modern design contains human-engineering in its field and attached importance to it.
When I visited this site which comes in contact with the sea on the south and touches with mountain range of Hallasan to the north,
I could meet the wind to flow between a block of rock and pine trees.
I thought the flowing wind could be conscious or unconscious just like the living human-being.
Also it could be either vector to have size and direction or scalar to lose direction, and either regular traffic line to move intentionally or disorder to flow thoughtlessly.
I intended to create an architectural space as a setting for behavior between human and nature,
sea and mountain, with the continuous space where either human or wind can flow ceaselessly,
the organic space with obscure boundary between in and out, and the gapped space between line and wall or wall and wall.
Because Jeju is a province rich in wind, stone and woman, the architectural concept to harmonize with wind, nature and Japanese woman fan looks attractive and interesting.
Free promenade connected along stonewall 1.2 meters long which makes the border of site 2,000m2 wide, encloses the mass of architecture.
Void space in the middle of mass can be the stairs to move perpendicularly from the lower part to higher part and a small-scaled outdoor stage spontaneously.
Also it is a main transfer space and open frame of whole architectural mass,
where the sea and the mountain Hallasan communicate with each other and the wind crosses.
Generally, walls partition the functional spaces in architectural structure.
However, traffic line such as corridor and stairs can also create the unexpected space and make the other spaces look more interesting.
Artificial structure to accept wind and light seems to need some delicate systems and appearances.
Interior and exterior materials are on the basis of natural materials.
Ceiling and walls are finished with exposed concrete and lumber, and outer wall finished with oxidized copper plate in dark gray harmonizes with a mass of zinc.
Wall of open space is finished with rough granite in gray, of which natural light and artificial light of ceiling reveal the rough materiality visually.
We can have the sense of material as a component of space through the visual recognition
and tactile recognition, and it has an affect on the style and the quality of space.
Also, light makes doers recognize a space, expands or reduce it,
and leads them to traffic line by inducing their psychology.
Adding to these, it creates the new power beyond the primary function of space.
