Programme

The users wanted the building to be planned as an auxiliary facility to help improve the underdeveloped Surak Mountain tourist site.

On the first floor, it was placed for public facilities such as small retail shops, restaurants and public toilets on first floor to create a space that visitors can rest temporarily on the way to Surak Mountain Dulle-gil trail course.

The building was designed to be placed within trees and not to be stand out too much. Colour of the exterior material was chosen to make the building be hidden around the trees. Building's shape was simplified and windows were arranged randomly to make it recognised as a sculpture, not a building.

High reflective windows which were deployed like artworks in a museum mirror surrounding trees and they look like floating frames projecting trees in the air. While high reflective windows reflect surroundings of outside the building, they also bring the surroundings into the building. In the lower floors, visitors can have the high state of visual experience that real and virtual images which are created by real trees, reflective trees on the windows, and trees in the back side of the building through the transparent windows are overlapped.

건물은 수목 안에 배치하되 최대한 건물임을 드러내지 않는 방향으로 계획했다. 건물이 주변 수목에 묻히도록 외장 재료 색상을 결정했고, 유리창을 랜덤하게 배치해 층을 가진 건물이 아닌 조형물처럼 인식되도록 형태를 단순화했다. 미술관에 전시된 작품처럼 배치된 고반사 유리창은 주변 수목을 반사해서 외부에서 보면 나무를 비친 액자들이 허공에 떠 있는 형태를 취한다.

고반사 유리창은 외부에서는 주변 상황을 반사하지만 내부에서는 주변을 끌어들인다. 저층부에서는 실제 수목과 유리에 반사된 수목 그리고 투명 유리창을 통해 보이는 건물 뒤편의 수목이 겹치면서 이용자들을 실상과 허상이 중첩되는 높은 차원의 시각적 경험을 하게 된다.