2024-07-25 06:52:59
‘If You Love, What About Others?’ will air on EBS1 at 9:55 PM on July 23rd.
A house filled with ’emptiness’ for the wife’s rest
In Goheung-gun, Jeollanam-do, there is a small and quiet seaside village with a wide tidal flat. The house we will explore this week is a village house with a preserved stone wall and old well. Mr. Cho Cheol and his wife Lee Hyeon-suk, who live in an apartment in Suncheon City, have set up a second house in the Goheung fishing village to relieve stress from city life and recharge their body and mind.
This house, called ‘Haedaljip’ because of the beautiful view of the sun and moon rising over the sea in front of the house, is not so special when seen from the outside. Unlike the exterior that looks like a typical country house in an ordinary fishing village, the interior is a reinterpretation of the classics and modern points. The husband, Cho Cheol, who belatedly took up painting, purchased and renovated an old house in this village eight years ago to use as a studio for oil paintings and a gallery to display his works.
Mrs. Hyun-sook, who ran a café in Suncheon. She worked continuously without a day off, opening at 9 in the morning and closing at 11 at night. Her husband, Mr. Cho-cheol, who saw his wife wanting to enjoy some leisure time after raising the children, suggested that they use the space he used as an art studio as a café. When the wife accepted her husband’s suggestion, the work progressed rapidly, and the husband’s art studio, which was a modestly renovated country house, was reborn as an attractive café building that combines modernity and traditional beauty.
The wife, who ran a country cafe while commuting from Suncheon to Goheung, needed a place to take a break in between. The husband, who saw his wife going out for a short walk or taking a nap in the car, decided to provide her with a place to rest. He bought another country house that happened to be on the market in the same neighborhood, and after a year of design and construction, he completed it as a space just for his wife. This old house, which they came across by chance, became the couple’s ‘resting place’ and ‘emptying place’, and helped them recharge their energy when they were tired from their daily lives.
Haedaljip was designed with a clean coffered ceiling by exposing only some of the old house’s rafters and installing full-length windows facing the sea to provide a refreshing view. One of the biggest features of this house is the multi-purpose veranda. Instead of a sofa in the living room, a veranda was installed to create a space where one can sit, lie down, and sometimes even drink tea, killing three birds with one stone. The husband, Cho Cheol’s greatest ambition is the luxurious hotel-grade bathroom inside the hanok. Let’s explore Haedaljip, which was built by a loving husband for his wife, from a spacious bathtub where she can comfortably enjoy a sauna to a full-length window that overlooks the bamboo forest in the backyard.
A house built far from the city for the sake of her husband’s health
Gwangyang-si, Jeollanam-do, where the winding Seomjin River flows by. The view of Jirisan Mountain in Hadong across the river and the green plum trees everywhere refresh the body and mind. A white house standing alone in the middle of a vast plum orchard is today’s second house. However, even from afar, large rocks are embedded in the garden. At first glance, the rocks that look like decorative landscaping stones are actually rocks that were originally there… Let’s find out how the house was built on land full of rocks!
The name of this house with many rocks is ‘Domus Petra’. In Latin, Domus means house and Petra means stone, meaning ‘house on a rock’. Ham Young-jun and Jeong Ju-mi, who built their house in the middle of a rocky plum orchard three years ago, are from Seoul and have no connection to Jeolla-do at all. How did the couple, who had lived in an apartment in Suwon, Gyeonggi-do for nearly 30 years, come down to a rural village in the southern province?
The two met in Sokcho, Gangwon-do as a career soldier and an elementary school teacher, and quickly became close due to their common hometown, and eventually got married. The husband, Ham Young-jun, was a quiet and easygoing person who was nicknamed Buddha when he was a soldier, but after starting a business after being discharged from the military, his personality changed to the point that he was called a lion and a tiger. In addition, he was fiercely immersed in social life that he entered late, and his regular life from his military days was ruined, and his life balance was broken, such as coming home late at night and eating late-night snacks. The husband went to work regardless of whether it was a weekend or a weekday, and he was a workaholic to the point that he would go right back to work when something happened while he was looking for land to build a country house. While he was engrossed in work without taking care of himself, his health suddenly went into red, and the wife, seeing her husband like that, decided to move as far away from Seoul as possible, and chose the southern province.
At first, they bought a small country house and used it as a second home, coming down to live there twice a month. While helping the village elders with their farm work, her husband discovered an unexpected talent. He realized that he liked hunting and gathering, such as picking bracken, plums, and chestnuts every season. He said that his mind, which was always complicated by business, became empty when he moved his body, and his health naturally improved. They decided to settle down here, where they found peace of mind.
The stones on the house site, which others would have considered obstacles, looked so pretty, said Mr. Ham Young-jun. So, instead of destroying the stones, they tried to keep them as they were, but the construction was more difficult and delayed. In order to keep the stones, the house was built with a piloti structure, and the living room and kitchen were designed as unique spaces with steps because of the stones. In addition, the large windows arranged in various sizes provide a cool sense of openness and fill the interior with the scenery of the southern region, such as the foot of Jirisan Mountain and the Seomjin River.
Let’s explore Domuspetra, the ‘house on the stone’, where the husband’s health is restored and even the deep love between the couple is restored.
Reporter Park Yu-mi Photo = EBS Architectural Exploration House
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2024-07-25 06:52:59