Two twin buildings interact in an incessant dialogue; hollowed out of a crescent moon, they are indissociable from each other ... Focus on architecture without standards.
Ilsan, a small town in the north-west of Seoul, where many different buildings are located without any consideration for each other, a private cultural center with a coffee shop and gallery has recently emerged from the ground.
Architecture and spherical inspiration
Two distinct buildings, one for the client of the architectural agency, the other for his younger brother, interact.
The cubic volumes, although slightly offset and split from a fault opening a passage, form an inseparable whole. On the two main facades, a common spherical and concave void hollows out the three floors of the twin buildings. The South Korean architect Moon Hoon is inspired by the movie Two Moon Junction - an erotic thriller - and draws two moon crescents that, once brought together, could make it full. One is added from a convex balcony, the other from a horizontal slot. As for the voluntarily simple boxes, they are sequenced from a few points of impact: large rectangular windows and round openings bring transparency. The ceiling is surmounted by a dome, while the roof is an outdoor terrace surrounded by high walls and whose transparent railings allow a visual breakthrough through the crescents of the moon. At night, the concave sphere takes the place of the sun and illuminates the building.