The hill where the sky and the ocean stop

Ganjeolgot

Having the most daylight hours at the Japanese seacoast of Korea, Ganjeolgot (which means the Earnest Cape) is a sightseer magnet that consists of each candy memories and the herbal settings comparable as breaking swells, cool countless ocean, the white lighthouse, and an area for rest. 

It's infamous as a power point among Ulsan and Busan, and the community lately sees the rapid-hearthplace growth of marketable installations comparable as cafes and caffs because of the upward push of floating population.

Flat Land Surrounded by Greens on a Coastal Hill

The layout factor is a trapezoid flat land, which lies almost three hundred meters inland from the sand of Ganjeolgot. The place encircled with the uninhabited, low mendacity leaning champaign, girdled through low systems and pine forestland, makes a fabulous but interesting vertical view.

The access into the area is permitted from the southern street alone, and the frontality directed in the direction of the open ocean through the variety of approximately 50 metres among the Japanese pine forestland gives a pivotal issue concerning the access and the area planning.

Here are three questions that are relevant according to the site conditions and the client's needs:

- Would you like a single-story building that is both diverse and not boring, as   

   requested by the customer?

- What can we do to integrate the seascape 300m from the site?

- How does a café differ from other types of places?

The shape is created by the space used.

To accommodate the requirements of the primary questions, the frontality is directed to the Japanese ocean is designed as an inshore gallery with a 5-meter range, girding a water area deposited within the centre. With a focal point on the benefit of construction, the gallery is fabricated from a polygonal form, resulting in spatial variety and a construction that is shaped inshore.

Creating a relationship between nature and artificiality

A water body must be a space of intersections and transitions that creates a geographical area incorporated with the ocean, contains the sky, and connects the artificial space with the anchored ground. The structured walls are manipulated to create relationships and colourful scenes, to zoom in and out of the near and far views around the pine forest and neighbouring structures.

A Resting Space

Cafés are usually inward areas wherein people drink tea, converse, and often interact in small conferences or study, while this cafe layout offers an area for relaxation that relaxes our frame and thoughts through extending our element some distance outside via an energetic architectural intervention. By minimizing and simplifying ornament and finishing, the layout will increase the focal point on conforming to nature externally and speaking with nature internally.