SSK focuses on experiential architecture that integrates the form and meaning inherent in space by utilizing data and systems. SSK implements adaptive architecture, an active methodology that transcends the physical limitations of space and ensures a healthy living environment through the optimal balance of form and function. It aims to revitalize fragmented daily life through refined spatialization of intangible elements that affect spatial psychology, such as light, shadow, sound, and fluid dynamics. As a high-end studio that performs comprehensive design from furniture and lighting, which are the basic units of architecture, to detailed design and supervision, SSK does not accept low-cost projects or meaningless prolific works. As a design-oriented studio that pursues the pinnacle of architectural detail through dense study, SSK continues to work on innovative spaces.

SSK ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„์— ๋‹ด๊ธด ์กฐํ˜•๊ณผ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์™€ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ†ตํ•ฉํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ค์ฆ์ ์ธ ๊ฑด์ถ•์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜•์ƒ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์˜ ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋œ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‹Œ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ํ•œ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ •์ฃผํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋™์ ์ธ ๊ฑด์ถ•๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋ก ์ธ Adaptive Architecture (ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ ์‘๊ฑด์ถ•)์„ ์ง€ํ–ฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ๋น›, ์Œ์˜, ์†Œ๋ฆฌ, ์œ ์ฒด ๋“ฑ ๋ฌดํ˜•์š”์†Œ์˜ ์ •์ œ๋œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„ํ™”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํŒŒํŽธํ™”๋œ ์ผ์ƒ์„ ์žฌ์ƒํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ชฉ์ ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑด์ถ•์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋‹จ์œ„์ธ ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ์™€ ๋ผ์ดํŒ…๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹ค์‹œ์„ค๊ณ„ ๋ฐ ๊ณต์‚ฌ๊ฐ๋ฆฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ข…ํ•ฉ๋””์ž์ธ์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” High-end Studio ๋กœ ์ €๊ฐ€์ˆ˜์ฃผ ๋ฐ ๋ฌด์˜๋ฏธํ•œ ๋‹ค์ž‘์€ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ€๋„์žˆ๋Š” ์Šคํ„ฐ๋””๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฑด์ถ• ๋””ํ…Œ์ผ์˜ ์ •์ ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” Design-oriented Studio ๋กœ ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ž‘์—…์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

Fine Architecture

What might we mean by a good space? And if such a thing exists, can it endure the slow passage of time? The act of seeking and defining good space should not be the sole preserve of architects; it ought to remain open to everyone. The orderly pattern of objects arranged in a shop window, the ebb and flow of cars filling and emptying a road, the lights that begin to flicker on one by one in the early evening lanes of a residential neighbourhood, the street vendorsโ€™ carts carefully positioned so as not to obstruct the passage of pedestriansโ€”these, too, are acts of skilful spatial organisation and use. The scenes produced by such gestures are modest and honest, revealing the rhythm of life without exaggeration or ornament. A discarded fragment of cheese may appear trivial, yet for an ant it becomes both a valuable resource and an effective medium. Drawn by the scent, ants gather around it, and the small piece of cheese is transformed into a lively street, a square, even a market. Good architecture ought to function in much the same way as well-matured cheese. It should be capable of asserting its presence even within isolated or degraded surroundings, breathing new vitality and movement into the spaces around it. In this sense, my modest studio may also be called a good space. White-toned walls and furniture, idiosyncratically designed table lamps, and objects of strong contrast that punctuate the room. It is not a flamboyant interior filled with fanciful artefacts, yet it lacks nothing essential. The space is neither excessively cold nor warm, and it breathes well with steady ventilation. Even as the seasons change, sunlight filters gently into its corners. Partitions and bookshelves placed with quiet precision naturally soften the sounds that drift in from outside. Good architecture must organise space in such a way that these small physical conditions can quietly fulfil their roles within everyday life.

Good architecture should be distinguished from architecture that is merely spectacular. It ought to arise not from passing fashions or speculative formal experiments without foundation, but from the ordinary conditions of daily life. Architecture driven by an architectโ€™s vanity or by fleeting trends often remains the possession of a few. It resembles not a piece of cheese to be shared by all, but a luxury object fashioned to gratify private desire. Architects themselves must remain vigilant against this temptation. Good architecture is not a flamboyant design wrapped in the grand rhetoric of โ€œcreation.โ€ Rather, it allows the subtle elements of daily life to permeate it. Light seeping through the narrow gap of a door, the long shadows of the evening sun, the faint aroma of cooking drifting from the kitchen, the gentle breeze entering through a windowโ€”such invisible physical elements, light, shade, sound, and air, must be able to settle quietly into the fabric of everyday life. The story of life never reveals itself all at once. It forms gradually upon the rhythm of time, layered through the accumulation of daily sensations. For this reason, the good architect must continually explore and test how the cheese he or she has made may mature as a vessel for life. One must refine the utility of architecture with care, deepen and expand its possibilities, and deliberately leave room for the latent potentials of new ways of living to seep into space. Good architecture is not a finished product concluded by a stylistic movement; it is a process that receives the life that ripens over time, allowing it to grow richer and more abundant.

์ข‹์€ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด๋ž€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ •์˜๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์กด์žฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์˜์†ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ. ์ข‹์€ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ •์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋Š” ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€์˜ ์ „์œ ๋ฌผ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋‚˜ ์—ด๋ ค์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์‡ผ์œˆ๋„์— ์ง„์—ด๋œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด๋“ค์˜ ๊ทœ์น™์ ์ธ ํŒจํ„ด, ๋„๋กœ๋ฅผ ์ฑ„์› ๋‹ค ๋น„์›Œ๋‚ด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์ž๋™์ฐจ์˜ ํ๋ฆ„, ์ดˆ์ €๋… ์ฃผํƒ๊ฐ€ ๊ณจ๋ชฉ๊ธธ์— ํ•˜๋‚˜๋‘˜์”ฉ ์ผœ์ง€๋Š” ๋ถˆ๋น›๋“ค, ํ†ตํ–‰์— ๋ฐฉํ•ด๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋„๋ก ์„ธ์‹ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ์น˜๋œ ๋…ธ์ ์ƒ์˜ ์ˆ˜๋ ˆ๋“ค. ์ด ์—ญ์‹œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ๋Šฅ์ˆ™ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์งํ•˜๊ณ  ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ–‰์œ„๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง€๋Š” ํ’๊ฒฝ์€ ์†Œ๋ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ •์งํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ณผ์žฅ ์—†์ด ์‚ถ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ์„ ์ง„์†”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ„๋ ค์ง„ ์น˜์ฆˆ ์กฐ๊ฐ์€ ์‚ฌ์†Œํ•ด ๋ณด์ผ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅด์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฐœ๋ฏธ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ข‹์€ ์ž์›์ด์ž ์ข‹์€ ๋งค์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹ค. ์น˜์ฆˆ ํ–ฅ์— ์ด๋Œ๋ ค ๊ฐœ๋ฏธ๋“ค์ด ๋ชจ์—ฌ๋“ค๊ณ , ์ž‘์€ ์น˜์ฆˆ ์กฐ๊ฐ์€ ํ™œ๊ธฐ ๋„˜์น˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ, ๊ด‘์žฅ์ด์ž ์‹œ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€๋ชจํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ๊ฑด์ถ•์€ ์ž˜ ์ˆ™์„ฑ๋œ ์น˜์ฆˆ์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ๊ธฐ๋Šฅํ•ด์•ผํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ๊ฑด์ถ•์€ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๋˜๊ณ  ์˜ค์—ผ๋œ ์žฅ์†Œ์—์„œ๋„ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ์˜ ์กด์žฌ๊ฐ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ™œ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์›€์ง์ž„์„ ๋ถˆ์–ด๋„ฃ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์•„๋Š‘ํ•œ ๋‚˜์˜ ์ž‘์—…์‹ค์€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์˜๋ฏธ์—์„œ ์ข‹์€ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด๋ผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ™”์ดํŠธ ํ†ค์˜ ๋ฒฝ๊ณผ ๊ฐ€๊ตฌ, ๊ฐœ์„ฑ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋””์ž์ธ ๋œ ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ” ๋žจํ”„๋“ค, ๋Œ€๋น„๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๋Š” ๋†’์€ ์ฝ˜ํŠธ๋ผ์ŠคํŠธ์˜ ์˜ค๋ธŒ์ œ๋“ค. ํŒฌ์‹œํ•œ ์žฅ์‹ํ’ˆ๋“ค๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐฌ ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ถˆํŽธํ•จ์€ ์—†๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ฐ„์€ ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ์ถฅ์ง€๋„ ๋ฅ์ง€๋„ ์•Š๊ณ  ํ™˜๊ธฐ๋„ ์ž˜๋œ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„์ ˆ์ด ๋ฐ”๋€Œ์–ด๋„ ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ์„๊ตฌ์„ ์€์€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ ๋‹ค. ์ ์žฌ์ ์†Œ์— ๋ฐฐ์น˜๋œ ํŒŒํ‹ฐ์…˜๊ณผ ์ฑ…์žฅ์€ ์™ธ๋ถ€์—์„œ ๋“ค๋ ค์˜ค๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋“ค์„ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๊ฑธ๋Ÿฌ์ค€๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ๊ฑด์ถ•์€ ์‚ฌ์†Œํ•œ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ์กฐ๊ฑด๋“ค์ด ์ผ์ƒ ์†์—์„œ ์ œ ์—ญํ• ์„ ๋‹คํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ์กฐ์งํ•ด ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

์ข‹์€ ๊ฑด์ถ•์€ ๊ฒ‰๋ณด๊ธฐ์— ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ณผ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ๊ฑด์ถ•์€ ์ตœ์‹  ์œ ํ–‰์ด๋‚˜ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ ์—†๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ณ€์ ์ธ ๊ฑด์ถ•ํ˜•์‹ ์‹คํ—˜์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ์ผ์ƒ์˜ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ์กฐ๊ฑด์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€์˜ ํ—ˆ์˜์ด๋‚˜ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•œ ๊ฑด์ถ•์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์†Œ์ˆ˜์˜ ์ „์œ ๋ฌผ์— ๋จธ๋ฌด๋ฅด๊ธฐ ์‰ฝ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚˜๋ˆŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์น˜์ฆˆ ํ•œ ์กฐ๊ฐ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€์˜ ์‚ฌ์ ์ธ ์š•๋ง์„ ์ถฉ์กฑ์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง„ ์‚ฌ์น˜ํ’ˆ์— ๊ฐ€๊น๋‹ค. ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ๊ฑด์ถ•์€ ์ฐฝ์กฐ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ฐฝํ•œ ์ˆ˜์‚ฌ๋กœ ํฌ์žฅ๋œ ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ๋””์ž์ธ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ์ผ์ƒ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ฌ˜ํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์— ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค๋„๋ก ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ข์€ ๋ฌธํ‹ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒˆ์–ด ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋Š” ๋น›, ๊ธธ๊ฒŒ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ์šด ๋…ธ์„์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž, ์ฃผ๋ฐฉ์—์„œ ์€์€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ’๊ฒจ์˜ค๋Š” ์š”๋ฆฌ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ, ์ฐฝ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๋Š” ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋น›, ์Œ์˜, ์†Œ๋ฆฌ, ์œ ์ฒด ๋“ฑ ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์ด ์ž”์ž”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ผ์ƒ์†์— ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๊ธฐ๋Šฅํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์‚ถ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ•œ๋ฒˆ์— ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ผ์ƒ์˜ ๊ฐ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ผœ์ผœ์ด ์Œ“์ด๋ฉฐ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ ์œ„์—์„œ ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ํ˜•์„ฑ๋œ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ข‹์€ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ๋งŒ๋“  ์น˜์ฆˆ๊ฐ€ ์‚ถ์„ ๋‹ด๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆ‡์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ˆ™์„ฑ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ํƒ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ค์ฆํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฑด์ถ•์˜ ํšจ์šฉ์„ ์„ธ์‹ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋“ฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ผ์ƒ์˜ ์ž ์žฌ์„ฑ์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ ๋‘์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ๊ฑด์ถ•์€ ์‚ฌ์กฐ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์™„๊ฒฐ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ๋ฅด๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฌด๋ฅด์ต๋Š” ์‚ถ์„ ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ํ’์„ฑํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •๋ฌผ์ด๋‹ค.

SIMULACRE / Korea Painting / WxL : 210x230mm / Sooseok L. Kim (2011)

 

 

AU MAGASIN DE NOUVEAUTES (์œก๋ฉด๊ฐ์ฒด์˜ ์žฌํ•ด์„) / Korea Painting / WxL : 387x270mm / Sooseok L. Kim (2008)

The Propriety of Art

A work that is universally recognisable and readily embraced, one that may be regarded as broadly appropriate, surely represents the ideal to which every creator aspires. Yet the difficulty that persistently arises in the pursuit of this ideal lies in the matter of judgement, namely the act of selecting the most fitting resolution from among countless ideas and alternatives. In this process, thoughts that once appeared lucid and persuasive often reveal themselves, at the very moment they are translated into language or image, to have been little more than naรฏve assumptions. Whenever I attempt to articulate or discuss the challenges inherent in my work, I frequently find myself disheartened by the reality that its unfinished state appears more compelling than the completed result. At such moments, I am compelled to ask whether I have become overly preoccupied with the mere act of producing something ostensibly complete. Were great artists truly those who left behind only works perfected through flawless, irrefutable logic? Many masters relied upon the aid of the Camera Obscura, refining and adjusting their work repeatedly in order to accumulate a sense of completion. Such trial and error was not an exceptional occurrence, but rather an entirely natural phase embedded within the creative process. And yet, unable to relinquish a lingering attachment to the notion of perfect creation, I, an ordinary practitioner, often diminish myself as nothing more than a novice learner. Ideas that seem fully formed and without flaw within the mind can, upon being spoken aloud, devolve into something akin to childish complaint. Certainly, there are moments when one arrives at a pinnacle without apparent misstep. However, when such moments are set against the arduous perseverance that others have endured over long periods, they risk appearing not as grounds for pride but as a form of arrogance. Moreover, works that seem to have been completed without error may in fact constitute another kind of failure, one that, having taken flight without sufficient momentum, ultimately collapses more dramatically.

If we regard art as a creative act grounded in a tenacious motif shaped by individual sensibility, then all creation, whether or not it is recognised as art, may be understood as expression filtered through the self. In this sense, regardless of its level, creation is inherently an act of self expression, and art becomes inseparable from the self. From this arises a certain sense of responsibility, the obligation to produce something capable of moving the perceptions and emotions of others. At the same time, this responsibility becomes a source of pride. As long as oneโ€™s thoughts and works derive meaning through the evaluation of others, and as long as every work must justify itself before such judgement, no one would wish to be ridiculed for something deemed inadequate. Within this context, the process of striving towards what is most appropriate is inseparable from the growing pains of an artist. I too have experienced countless occasions in which ideas I firmly believed to be remarkable felt trite the moment they were expressed outwardly. Yet this is neither extraordinary nor tragic; it is simply a natural part of the creative process. To arrive, at last, at the most fitting work through repeated trial and error is both a burden the artist must bear and the fundamental desire that compels them ever onward.

 

๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๊ณ  ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”, ๋ณดํŽธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฐฝ์ž‘์ž๊ฐ€ ์—ด๋งํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์ƒ์ผ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ด์ƒ์„ ํ–ฅํ•œ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ์–ด๋ ค์›€์€ ํŒ๋‹จ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ, ์ฆ‰ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด์™€ ๋Œ€์•ˆ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ํ•ด๋ฒ•์„ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„์— ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ํ•œ๋•Œ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์„ค๋“๋ ฅ ์žˆ์–ด ๋ณด์˜€๋˜ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋“ค์€, ๋ง‰์ƒ ์–ธ์–ด์™€ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ฒจ์ง€๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ˆœ์ง„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ •์— ๋ถˆ๊ณผํ–ˆ์Œ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ์ž‘์—…์˜ ์–ด๋ ค์›€์„ ํƒ€์ธ์—๊ฒŒ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋…ผ์˜ํ•˜๋ ค ํ•  ๋•Œ๋ฉด, ์™„์„ฑ๋œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ฏธ์™„์˜ ์ƒํƒœ๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ ์ ˆํ•ด ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ํ˜„์‹ค์— ์ข…์ข… ์ขŒ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์—ฐ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์™„์„ฑ๋„ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์„ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„ ์ž์ฒด์—๋งŒ ๋งค๋ชฐ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹Œ์ง€ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๋ฌป๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค. ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๋ž€ ์˜ค์ง ํ ์žก์„ ๋ฐ ์—†๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ฐ• ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์™„์„ฑ๋œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ๋งŒ์„ ๋‚จ๊ฒผ์„๊นŒ? ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ๊ฑฐ์žฅ๋“ค์ด 'Camera Obscura'์˜ ๋„์›€์„ ๋ฐ›์•„ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์ธ ์กฐ์ •๊ณผ ๋‹ค๋“ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์™„์„ฑ์˜ ๋ฐ€๋„๋ฅผ ์ถ•์ ํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‹œํ–‰์ฐฉ์˜ค๋Š” ์˜ˆ์™ธ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ฐฝ์ž‘ ๊ณผ์ •์— ๋‚ด์žฌ ๋œ ์ง€๊ทนํžˆ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋‹จ๊ณ„์˜€๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์ฐฝ์ž‘ ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋ จ์„ ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฒ”์ธ์€ ์ข…์ข… ์Šค์Šค๋กœ๋ฅผ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ํ•™์Šต์ž์— ๋ถˆ๊ณผํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ‰๊ฐ€์ ˆํ•˜ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์†์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฒฐ์  ์—†์ด ์™„๊ฒฐ๋œ ๋“ฏ ๋ณด์ด๋˜ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด, ์ž… ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์œ ์น˜ํ•œ ๋ถˆํ‰์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋ฝํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์‹œํ–‰์ฐฉ์˜ค ์—†์ด ์ •์ ์— ์ด๋ฅด๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋„ ์กด์žฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์€ ์˜ค๋žœ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ธ๊ณ ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋์— ํƒ„์ƒํ•œ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ณ ๋œ ์ธ๋‚ด์™€ ๋Œ€๋น„๋  ๋•Œ ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ์„ ๋„˜์–ด ์˜ค๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ๋น„์น˜๊ธฐ ์‰ฝ๋‹ค. ๋” ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€, ์˜ค๋ฅ˜ ์—†์ด ์™„์„ฑ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ง€๋Š” ์ž‘์—…์€ ์ข…์ข… ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ์‹คํŒจ, ์ฆ‰ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ๋„์•ฝ ์—†์ด ๋‚ ์•„์˜ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋กœ ๋” ํฐ ์‹คํŒจ๋กœ ๊ท€๊ฒฐ๋˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

์˜ˆ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜์„ฑ์— ์˜ํ•ด ํ˜•์„ฑ๋œ ๊ณ ์ง‘์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ชจํ‹ฐํ”„์— ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์„ ๋‘” ์ฐฝ์กฐ ํ–‰์œ„๋กœ ๋ณธ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฐฝ์ž‘์€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๋กœ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๋“  ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š๋“  ์ฐฝ์ž‘์ž์˜ ์ž์•„๋ฅผ ํ†ต๊ณผํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„ ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ธฐ์— ๊ทธ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ๋– ๋‚˜ ์ฐฝ์กฐ๋Š” ๊ณง ์ž๊ธฐํ‘œํ˜„์ด๋ฉฐ, ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์€ ์ž์•„์™€ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์กด์žฌ๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํƒ€์ธ์˜ ๊ฐ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ์›€์ง์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ผ์ข…์˜ ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ์€ ๋™์‹œ์— ์ž๊ธ์‹ฌ์˜ ๊ทผ์›์ด ๋œ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด ์‚ฌ์œ ์™€ ์ž‘์—…์ด ํƒ€์ธ์˜ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€์—ฌ๋ฐ›๊ณ , ๋ชจ๋“  ์ž‘์—…์ด ๊ทธ ํ‰๊ฐ€ ์•ž์—์„œ ์ •๋‹น์„ฑ์„ ํš๋“ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œ, ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋„ ๋ฏธํกํ•œ ์ž‘์—…๋ฌผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์กฐ๋กฑ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ โ€˜์ ์ ˆํ•œโ€™ ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ฐฝ์ž‘์˜ ๊ณผ์ •์€ ์—์ˆ ๊ฐ€์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅํ†ต๊ณผ ๋‹ค๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค. ๋‚˜ ์—ญ์‹œ ๊ทผ์‚ฌํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ตณ๊ฒŒ ๋ฏฟ์—ˆ๋˜ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๊ฐ€ ์™ธ๋ถ€๋กœ ํ‘œ์ถœ๋˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ง„๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ˆฑํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•  ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์—†๊ณ  ๋น„๊ทน์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด๋„ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ์ง€ ์ฐฝ์ž‘ ๊ณผ์ •์— ๋‚ด์žฌ ๋œ ๊ณผ์ •์ผ ๋ฟ์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๋˜๋Š” ์‹œํ–‰์ฐฉ์˜ค๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋น„๋กœ์†Œ ์ตœ์ ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ๋‚ดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ง์ด์ž, ๋™์‹œ์— ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์›€์ง์ด๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์—ด๋ง์ผ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

 

 

Paradigm Shift

The traditional architectural paradigmโ€”long predicated upon defining space through structural elements such as columns, walls, floors, and ceilingsโ€”has entered a moment of profound transformation. At the heart of this shift lies the user. As rapid advances in digital technology enable bold and experimental designs to be realised within physical environments, users now demand from architects spatial experiences that are far more complex and multilayered than ever before. Historically, innovation in architecture has been driven largely by advancements in materials. The progression from timber to stone, and from concrete to steel and glass, effectively marked the evolution of the discipline itself. Today, however, architectural evolution is no longer governed by materials per se, but is instead catalysed by societal demands for new spatial typologies. This shift is closely intertwined with the intrinsic nature of architecture as a field that necessitates considerable time and substantial investment.

At the same time, developments in material technologies and construction methodologies are redefining architectureโ€”not merely as a finished artefact, but as a potential agent of social transformation. Consequently, the imperative has shifted: rather than inventing fundamentally new materials, the more urgent and consequential task lies in conceiving new spatial paradigms. In tandem with this, the very forms that contain space are being reinterpreted. Moving beyond the physical hexahedron defined by edges and planes, form is increasingly understood as an abstract mediumโ€”one that embodies, generates, and communicates narratives through free and fluid expression. The liberation of architectural paradigms, brought about by new materials and an expanded spatial consciousness, now calls upon architects to embrace an unprecedented degree of innovation and responsibility. Ultimately, architects are no longer bound to the repetitive production of buildings dictated by uniformity and standardisation; instead, they are afforded the freedom to engage with space in a more open, interpretative, and playful manner, articulating it with both imagination and intent.

 

๊ธฐ๋‘ฅ, ๋ฒฝ, ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ, ์ฒœ์žฅ ๋“ฑ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ๊ทœ์ •ํ•ด ์™”๋˜ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ๊ฑด์ถ• ํŒจ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค์ž„์€ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ „ํ™˜๊ธฐ์— ๋“ค์–ด์„ฐ๋‹ค. ๋ณ€ํ™”์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์—๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ๋น„์•ฝ์  ๋ฐœ์ „์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€๋‹ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹คํ—˜์ ์ธ ๋””์ž์ธ์ด ํ˜„์‹ค ๊ณต๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ˜„๋˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋“ค์€ ์ด์ œ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ์ด์ „๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋ณตํ•ฉ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋‹ค์ธต์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๊ฑด์ถ•์˜ ํ˜์‹ ์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ์˜ ์ง„๋ณด์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ฒฌ์ธ๋˜์–ด ์™”๋‹ค. ๋ชฉ์žฌ์—์„œ ์„์žฌ๋กœ, ์ฝ˜ํฌ๋ฆฌํŠธ์—์„œ ์ฒ ๊ฐ•๊ณผ ์œ ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง„ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ๊ณง ๊ฑด์ถ•์˜ ์ง„ํ™”๋ฅผ ์˜๋ฏธํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ๊ฑด์ถ•์˜ ์ง„ํ™”๋Š” ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ ๊ทธ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์œ ํ˜•์˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ์š”๊ตฌ์—์„œ ์ด‰๋ฐœ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ฑด์ถ•์ด ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์žฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋ง‰๋Œ€ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํ•„์š”๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„์•ผ๋ผ๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฑด๊ณผ๋„ ๋งž๋‹ฟ์•„ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•œํŽธ, ์žฌ๋ฃŒ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ณผ ์‹œ๊ณต ๋ฐฉ์‹์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „์€ ๊ฑด์ถ•์„ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์„ ๋„˜์–ด ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๋Š” ์ž ์žฌ์  ์ฃผ์ฒด๋กœ ์žฌ์ •์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๋ช…ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ๊ฐœ๋…์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์ด ๋”์šฑ ์‹œ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ณผ์ œ๋กœ ๋ถ€์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ๋‹ด๋Š” ํ˜•์ƒ ์—ญ์‹œ ์žฌํ•ด์„๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ์„œ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ๊ทœ์ •๋˜๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ์œก๋ฉด์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด ์ž์œ ๋กœ์šด ์กฐํ˜• ์†์—์„œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์ƒ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ์ถ”์ƒ์  ๋งค๊ฐœ๋กœ ์ดํ•ด๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์žฌ๋ฃŒ์™€ ํ™•์žฅ๋œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ์ธ์‹์— ์˜ํ•œ ํŒจ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค์ž„์˜ ํ•ด๋ฐฉ์€ ์ด์ œ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋А ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ๋” ํฐ ํ˜์‹ ๊ณผ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€๋Š” ํš์ผ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํ‘œ์ค€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ•์š”ํ•ด ์˜จ ๊ฑด์ถ•์„ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜๋ฌด์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜, ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ณ  ๊ฐœ๋ฐฉ์ ์ธ ํƒœ๋„๋กœ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ์œ ํฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ•ด์„ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

FLOATING ILLUSION / Pen / WxL : 300x400mm / Sooseok L. Kim (2013)

 

 

THE TOMB / Pen / WxL : 400x300mm / Sooseok L. Kim (2013)

Role of Architect

Beyond the production of visually flamboyant forms lies a more fundamental reflection on the latent role of the architect. Such reflection extends beyond mere formal experimentation or aesthetic refinement, evolving into an attitude that reconsiders the broader relationship between architecture and society. It poses a critical question to contemporary architects who, absorbed in visual expression, have neglected their social responsibility, one that resonates with the demands of an era in which architecture is no longer confined to individual creation, but is expected to embody both publicness and ethical awareness. Under the imperatives of efficiency and capital, what is most readily discarded is the architectโ€™s disposition to enquire into the essence of things, along with the will to conceive of architecture as a medium that contains and shapes life. In this process, architecture is increasingly reduced to a consumable commodity, while the inherent narrative and sensorial depth of space gradually fade. Has the architectโ€™s capacity for critical thought, conditioned to respond solely to the demands of โ€œservice,โ€ truly lost its significance? Or does there still remain a possibility to question and resist from within such constraints?

Numerous visionary architects have experimentally engaged with the traditional yet fundamental elements of light and space, transcending the mere production of form and expanding the very role of the architect within society. Their work has not been limited to shifts in technique or style, but has sought to redefine the ways in which human beings experience space. A space that moves the human spirit cannot be realised through efficient programming or innovation alone; such factors merely constitute the minimum conditions, while genuine resonance emerges on an altogether different plane. Such spaces are generated, accumulated, and ultimately shaped through the interconnected narratives of our lives. Memories and experiences, layered over time, permeate space, allowing it to become a living place. Therefore, to contemplate how these modest yet meaningful stories may be conveyed through the medium of space is to move closer to what might be called an โ€œappropriateโ€ architecture. In turn, the accumulation of such reflection compels the architect to continually redefine their role, revealing architecture not as a finite product, but as an ongoing process of forming relationships.

 

์‹œ๊ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™”๋ คํ•œ ์กฐํ˜•์„ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ ๋„ˆ๋จธ์—๋Š” ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€์˜ ์ž ์žฌ์  ์—ญํ• ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์ฐฐ์ด ์กด์žฌํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ์ฐฐ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ํ˜•ํƒœ์  ์‹คํ—˜์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฏธ์  ์™„์„ฑ๋„๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด์„œ, ๊ฑด์ถ•์ด ์‚ฌํšŒ์™€ ๋งบ๋Š” ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ฌป๋Š” ํƒœ๋„๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง„๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ์ฐฐ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ์  ํ‘œํ˜„์—๋งŒ ๋ชฐ๋‘ํ•œ ์ฑ„ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ๋ง๊ฐํ•œ ํ˜„๋Œ€์˜ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋˜์ง€๋Š” ํ™”๋‘๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ฑด์ถ•์ด ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ์ฐฝ์ž‘๋ฌผ์— ๋จธ๋ฌด๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ณต์„ฑ๊ณผ ์œค๋ฆฌ์„ฑ์„ ๋™์‹œ์— ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์‹œ๋Œ€์  ํ๋ฆ„๊ณผ๋„ ๋งž๋‹ฟ์•„ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ˆ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ด๋ฆ„ ์•„๋ž˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋จผ์ € ๋ฒ„๋ ค์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ณธ์งˆ์„ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€์˜ ํƒœ๋„์™€ ๊ฑด์ถ•์„ ์‚ถ์„ ๋‹ด๋Š” ๋งค๊ฐœ๋กœ์„œ ์‚ฌ์œ ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์˜์ง€๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๊ฑด์ถ•์€ ์ ์ฐจ ์†Œ๋น„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ƒํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ํ™˜์›๋˜๊ณ , ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‹ˆ๋Š” ๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ์„œ์‚ฌ์™€ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์€ ์ ์  ํฌ๋ฏธํ•ด์ง„๋‹ค. ์˜ค์ง โ€˜์„œ๋น„์Šคโ€™๋ผ๋Š” ์š”๊ตฌ์—๋งŒ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ•˜๋„๋ก ๊ธธ๋“ค์—ฌ์ง„ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€์˜ ์‚ฌ์œ ์˜์ง€๋Š” ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ผ๊นŒ. ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์†์—์„œ๋„ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•˜๊ณ  ์ €ํ•ญํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ผ๊นŒ.

์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์„ ์ง€์  ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด ๋น›๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ด๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๊ทผ์›์ ์ธ ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ์‹คํ—˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์กฐํ˜• ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ ๋„˜์–ด ์‚ฌํšŒ์†์—์„œ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€์˜ ์—ญํ•  ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ํ™•์žฅํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ž‘์—…์€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด๋‚˜ ์–‘์‹์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ๋จธ๋ฌด๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ , ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹ ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ •์˜ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์‹œ๋„์˜€๋‹ค. ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์›€์ง์ด๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„์€ ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ด๋‚˜ ํ˜์‹ ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์™„์„ฑ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์€ ์ตœ์†Œํ•œ์˜ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ผ ๋ฟ, ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์ธ ๊ฐ๋™์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ธต์œ„์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์€ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์ƒ์„ฑ๋˜๊ณ , ์ถ•์ ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์„œ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ˜•์„ฑ๋œ๋‹ค. ์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ํ๋ฆ„ ์†์—์„œ ์ผœ์ผœ์ด ์Œ“์ธ ๊ธฐ์–ต๊ณผ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์— ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋น„๋กœ์†Œ ์‚ด์•„ ์žˆ๋Š” ์žฅ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด ์†Œ์†Œํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋“ค์„ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ๋งค๊ฐœ๋กœ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ „๋‹ฌํ• ์ง€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์œ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ โ€˜์ ์ ˆํ•œโ€™ ๊ฑด์ถ•์— ํ•œ์ธต ๋” ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์ผ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‚ฌ์œ ์˜ ์ถ•์ ์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ๋‹ค์‹œ๊ธˆ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์—ญํ• ์„ ์žฌ์ •์˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ฉฐ, ๊ฑด์ถ•์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋งบ๊ธฐ์˜ ๊ณผ์ •์ž„์„ ๊นจ๋‹ซ๊ฒŒ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

 

 

Architect as Mediator

The architecture of the future will be grounded in greater freedom. Yet, even amidst paradigm shifts, the role of architecture as a conduit and medium of communication must not be diminished. Exemplary architecture is defined not merely by historical significance or formal accomplishment; its essential meaning resides in dialogue. Architecture stands as both one of humanityโ€™s most precious assets and one of its most potent instruments. Regardless of function or purpose, it has, throughout history, operated as a forum for discourse and exchange. Thus, a well conceived space must continue to serve as a mediator of life. Just as the sfumato technique dissolves boundaries through subtle gradations of colour, architecture, too, ought to act as a catalyst, expanding boundaries and weaving together diverse narratives within its context.

The future of architecture does not reside solely in the pursuit of radical forms or avant garde design. Beyond mere aesthetics, it must engender new spatial cultures and seamlessly integrate them into daily life. Architects must contemplate how innovative designs can function as effective mediators, how they will be received by their users, and how they might endure over time. The appropriate space an architect seeks is one that, like sfumare, allows colours to blend and diffuse within a mist, carrying with them new discourses that naturally propagate through its users. This approach resonates with traditional architectural values, which have long recognised architecture as a living, evolving entity. Ultimately, the architect of yesterday becomes, once more, the architect of today.

 

๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ ๊ฑด์ถ•์€ ๋” ํฐ ์ž์œ ์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ํŒจ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค์ž„ ์ „ํ™˜ ์†์—์„œ๋„ ์†Œํ†ต์˜ ํ†ต๋กœ์ด์ž ๋งค๊ฐœ์ฒด๋กœ์„œ ๊ฑด์ถ•์˜ ์—ญํ• ์€ ์œ„์ถ•๋˜์–ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค. ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๊ฑด์ถ•์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ๊ฐ€์น˜๋‚˜ ํ˜•์‹์  ์™„์„ฑ๋„๋กœ๋งŒ ์ •์˜๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ๊ฑด์ถ•์˜ ๋ณธ์งˆ์  ์˜๋ฏธ๋Š” ์†Œํ†ต์— ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑด์ถ•์€ ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด ์†Œ์œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋น„์‹ผ ์žฌํ™”์ธ ๋™์‹œ์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ด๋‹ค. ์šฉ๋„๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ๋ฌด๊ด€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ, ๊ฑด์ถ•์€ ์—ญ์‚ฌ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋‹ด๋ก ๊ณผ ์†Œํ†ต์˜ ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘๋™ํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ข‹์€ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์‚ถ์˜ ๋งค๊ฐœ๋กœ ์ž‘๋™๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์Šคํ‘ธ๋งˆํ†  ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์ด ๋ฏธ๋ฌ˜ํ•œ ์ƒ‰์ฑ„์˜ ์ „์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ—ˆ๋ฌผ๋“ฏ, ๊ฑด์ถ• ๋˜ํ•œ ์ฃผ์–ด์ง„ ๋งฅ๋ฝ ์†์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์—ฎ์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ์ด‰๋งค๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

๊ฑด์ถ•์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋Š” ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋‚˜ ๊ธ‰์ง„์ ์ธ ๋””์ž์ธ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ์—๋งŒ ๋จธ๋ฌผ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ๋””์ž์ธ์„ ๋„˜์–ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ์ผ์ƒ ์†์— ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ฑด์ถ•์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ณผ์ œ๋‹ค. ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ˜์‹ ์  ์„ค๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋งค๊ฐœ์ฒด๋กœ ์ž‘๋™ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ์ง€๊ณ  ์ง€์†๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์ง€ํ–ฅํ•˜๋Š” โ€˜์ ์ ˆํ•œโ€™ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด๋ž€, 'Sfumare'์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์•ˆ๊ฐœ ์†์—์„œ ์ƒ‰์ฑ„๊ฐ€ ์„œ๋กœ ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ค๋ฉฐ ํ™•์‚ฐ๋˜ ๋“ฏ, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ํผ์ ธ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋‹ด๋ก ์„ ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ฑด์ถ•์„ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ์‚ด์•„ ์žˆ๋Š” ์กด์žฌ๋กœ ์ธ์‹ํ•ด ์˜จ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ๊ฑด์ถ•์  ๊ฐ€์น˜์™€ ๋งž๋‹ฟ์•„ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์–ด์ œ์˜ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ, ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ๊ฑด์ถ•๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹ค.

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THE MEDIATOR / Sooseok L. Kim (2013)