Enclosure

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Year completed: May 2021

General Contractor: Gido Architecture

Project Director: Space B-E

Collaboration: LimTaeHee Design Studio

Artist: Kang SukkeunㅣKim NamheeㅣKim GyuㅣKim MinwookㅣKim JunsuㅣNam MihyeㅣRyu YeunheeㅣBADA design atelierㅣBae JoohyuㅣBaek KyungwonㅣVIIN CollectionㅣSuoㅣAnnaliisa AlastaloㅣAn MoonsuㅣLyu NamgwonㅣYoo TaekeunㅣYoon SehoㅣLee YoonjeongㅣLee JeongwooㅣLee JinjooㅣYichanuㅣLim SeoyoonㅣJung HyunjeeㅣKunsikㅣChoi HeejuㅣFIVECOMMAㅣHuh Yujung

Brand: SLOW PHARMACYㅣTWL

The pandemic situation leading to COVID-19 has changed our daily lives. In the era of discussing context and uncontact, we are immersed in deep contemplation about how to sometimes establish a distance (density) relationship with others.

About our everyday life and daily life surrounding me..."
Everyday routine without specialty is repeated. We live in a day when we face numerous events, looking for small things that makes us happy, such as draining down a tea as you read a book, preparing breakfast, and making a margin of life with a cup of coffee and a glass of wine while listening to your favorite music. Enclosure, in architecture, is a story of the sensitivity that can be felt surrounded by something. In this time of need for a proper bond... This exhibition began to unravel the sense of urgency, a spatial language, with stories about the privacy of people and things.
Providing a proper sense of comfort to people and things through distance and density is a significant proposal for designers living in this era. Through Art Archive, I would like to discuss the relationship between the density of space that needs to be loosened and the object that needs to be intimate.

 

01 Gathering

Social distancing is now the new normal. I think about the importance of daily life and the value of mediocrity that was too busy and buried in complexity due to distance. The value of space in the New Normal era also comes to us in a new sense. The first journey, Younhyeon Garden, presents an architectural space where you can enjoy gathering in a garden made of tiles. Let's start the journey of creating a comfortable space in Younhyeon Garden.

 

02 Surroundings

"About my daily life surrounding my day..."

Morning is the time when I am fully awake, and dawn dwells inside.* Imagine a day that starts with the sound of the early morning rain. The relaxation of dropping a cup of tea while reading Walden with the sound of rain as music will be a great comfort to endure the tiring daily life, and you will be able to have a happy day by enjoying a small garden in a bowl.

 

03 Belongings

As much as the distance between people physically distant, we began to get close to things around us. Is it the intimacy you feel when you discover things that have always existed but have passed by? When it becomes precious, it is treated with care, and there is a special space for the precious. We make boxes of precious things just like making treasure boxes when we were young.

A sense of comfort, surrounding me, surrounding things...

Let's look back on the time when we missed our ordinary daily lives and fall in love with the world through the objects around us like a poet's writing.

 

04 Breathing

"How can we expect to understand nature without receiving the small gifts from nature with joy like a child? It is not because of the inherent value of the gifts, but because they are gifts from nature. I like to fill my basket with gifts, no matter how trivial and insignificant the source of my joy may be."

*Henry David Thoreau, in "Diary"

 

05 Solitude

Aside from the distancing of the pandemic situation, humans are originally social beings, so they live by adjusting the distance between many people and relationships. I think what we need for happy human relationships in this era is proper distance. Why don't you give yourself some time to enjoy solitude between the right distances?

 

06 Garden of Mind

It seems that it took quite a long time to realize the importance of a very ordinary time. I hope we can go back to our humble beginnings to put a bright energy back into our lives...

"I like the phrase 'Let's take care of my inner garden,' which the Buddhist monk Beopjeong often said. To keep your inner garden well, you must constantly think, read many books, laugh well, and practice affirming your life."*
*In "Understander's Words"