Dolmenic House / TURTLE Architects

TECTONIC ARCHITECTURE: Architecture, Starting from the site. Just as salmon must return to the place where they were born, humans have the disposition to return to the place where they were born. It is a slow inertia that spans about 90 years of life. The client was born on this very site in Goseong, Gyeongsangnam-do, and spent his childhood here. The client worked in Seoul and lived here for the rest of his life, and after his parents passed away, he commissioned us to design a house to prepare for life after retirement. Considering that the site has been handed down over eight generations, we focused on on-site analysis before the design. On the site, there was a Korean traditional wooden house where the client’s ancestors lived.