The Essential Value of a Dwelling
Christian Norberg-Schulz said that ‘to live’ is to establish a meaningful relationship between human beings and their given environment. The physical environment around us does not exist as meaningful from the very beginning. Building a relationship with our surrounding environment and objects within the time given to us, we have created meanings for them one by one each time. The act of creating a ‘relationship’ to create meanings within a physical context is that of a ‘dwelling’.
The architect of the House of Three Trees planned and built it with his parents in mind. In accordance with his father’s wish to live in his hometown, the house was built on a site in Sangju.
When the view becomes bright after passing through a dark small underpass below a road, a slightly strange building on a sloping hill comes into sight
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