Project Name:  Sculpting Light 2

Client: Confidential
Location: Seoul, Korea
Size: 200 sq-m (60PY)
Status: Complete (2025)
Architect: Suk Lee

Project Description:

This interior renovation project for a middle-aged couple, their middle-school-aged son, and their adorable dog aimed to create an optimized design with minimal alteration to the existing structure. Maintaining the existing structure without alteration, which could have been somewhat monotonous, allowed the team to create a diverse sense of space through bold lighting design. This space underwent optimization through extensive light studies, and the design considered familiar furniture, props, and even the placement of their own paintings, ensuring that scenes from their daily lives would be etched into their memories.

Project Name: Fissured Stack

Location: Þingeyjarsveit, Iceland
Size: 150 sq-m
Status: Proposal (2020)
Architect: Suk Lee, Dawon Lee

Project Description:

Fissured Stack is an observatory tower which presents the following geological characters of the site and Iceland in macro-scope: 1. stack, a geological landform consisting of a steep and vertical column of rock formed by natural erosion revealing the layers of geological information, 2. fissure, the on-site cleft with hot groundwater flowing. As sea stacks impress us from far distance, Fissured Stack expresses its vertical presence with which visitors can easily identify the tower from remote areas.

Due to the remote location and the extreme winter weather, sustainable design solutions are applied in order to lower the energy demand by using the local energy resources and passive design strategies. Noting the nearby Bjarnarflag power plant, the building utilizes geothermal heating and takes the advantage of thick concrete walls with continuous interior insulation to achieve high thermal mass.

Dramatic curved concrete walls with the Iceland basalt column texture, which is constructed by using the collage of multi-layer metal deck as a mold, invites visitors. Once inside, people may meander through fissured slabs following the continuous staircase until they reach the very top floor where the main observatory deck and the tea house lounge are located. The interior atmosphere with charred wood finishes echoes the experience in the cave enriching the journey.

Project Name: Material Orchestration

Client: Confidential
Location: Seoul, Korea
Size: 184 sq-m
Status: Complete (2022)
Architect: Suk Lee, Dawon Lee

Project Description:

The design goal of this interior renovation project is to derive a spatial experience optimized for the lifestyles of an elderly couple for their after retirement period. Removing all unnecessary walls and sliding doors transforms a typical apartment floor plan into a more relaxed unique space with more convenient circulation. A colorful sense of space was derived visually and tactfully through the harmony of various finish materials. This space was then ultimately went through an optimization process through a lighting study. All appliances, furniture pieces and flat arts that have been kept for a lifetime were all modeled in a 3D environment to ensure a perfect setting when moving in.

Project Name: Sculpting Light

Client: After J International
Location: Seoul, Korea
Size: 120 sq-m
Status: Complete (2019)
Architect: Suk Lee, Dawon Lee

Project Description:

Commercial spaces in domestic residential and commercial complexes have a disadvantage in that it is difficult to draw natural light into the interior due to their low floor height and deep planar structure. Sculpting Light creates a bright open space through lighting-centered interior renovation in such a dark closed space. The ceiling and wall surfaces are partially incised to form a sculpted space as if lifting a piece of white fabric, and the light embedded in the gap is designed to leak out, transforming a rather heavy and dark space into a brighter and lighter space. In addition, by considering the physical properties of Mirrorsol, Barrisol, glass partitions and other various interior finish materials, various lights were realized, and the direction and sense of space were maximized through reflection effects to create a narrow space in a more expanded form. The conference room closet in this space, where cosmetics business is currently held, is a closet with various functions that satisfies its role as both a product storage space and a display space under the concept of ‘door in door’. It is designed to be used as a storage space by opening and closing the white oak wooden door divided by the pattern, and to slide the black mirror door even in the closed state to display the partially displayed products behind the long black mirror as needed.