RENOVATION, PARAMETRICAL PATTERN, NATURE
Namhae Cheo-ma house
(Cheo-ma : The part where roof stick out of cross-beam. As known as eaves)
By Lee, Jeonghoon
Imagination about Cheo-ma
A line produces another line. Sky-line, a line made by mountain-line, and land-line are all the Absolute s line. Newly drawn line means capturing the earth and the point where the sky and the land merge. After all, Cheo-ma possibly means setting a line where mankind and above meet. It is a human beings imaginary action about nature and sky while responding back to the beauty of its topography. As a strong stroke from calligraphy, Cheo-ma lines asymmetrically condense the energy of a line while resetting the relationship between mankind and the nature. The Cheo-ma lines are magnificent abstract boundary that mankind visualized and also a tool to reveal the identity of the land. It embraces the land in its own line and disguises itself in the nature s ridge at the same time. This paradoxical duplicity of Cheo-ma meets the Korean philosophy of being harmonious but not the same and being similar but different. It is our lives and the virtue that the line has.
Reflecting flection – Double Bending Cheo-ma line
It bends to one side. And it bends again to another axis. Bent steel contains energy in itself. This embodied energy is the inherent strength of property of matter and the point where it balances out. We make a line with a grinder on the bended steel. A square shape steel pipe warps through curved surface as if it will burst right away. 3 dimensional bending is a process of exposing the nature of bended steel by making a line on it. The numbers on the drawing might be useless during the bending. 2 dimensional bending values are only theoretical figures when we try to bend 3 dimensionally. Workers sense, constant exertion and endless trial to find the true identity of the curve will be the only realistic solution for 3D bending. The drawings are only a base data to minimize the trial and error. It originates from how one controls and spreads internalized energy of property of matter which depends on the maker s long time experiences and skills. With the heat we can bend a flat steel plate, but a square shape pipe refuses to be tamed. As we force the pipe to be bent, the energy captured within. The line of the Cheo-ma starts from as we bend a previously bent force to a different direction again. It is a long journey of seeking an answer to a mystery of balancing between physical force and three dimensional geometries.
Project Name : Namhae Cheo-ma house
Project Type : Partial Demolition + Renovation
Site : 557-2, Namyang-ri, Seolcheon-myeon, Namhae-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea
Plottage : 576 sqm
Zoning District : Wilderness Area
Architect : Jeonghoon Lee (JOHO Architecture)
Construction : Jaehyun Hawng (Oulim Eng.)
