Hanok Garden, a landscape project in South Korea by Y Design Office, strips one of the older Korean traditional courtyard houses into its barebones with a small deck for resting. The old house is simply turned into a public garden. More is taken away than what gets added. The project asks and challenges the very basic questions about a person, a house, a city and nature. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Hanok Garden is located in a small village called Gasang-li which holds about thirty families. It’s about an hour away from Daegu, a city with 2.5 million residents. The average age of the villagers is over fifty and farming is their major source of income. Urbanization is a common phenomenon all over the world and it certainly is the case in Korea as well. This brings about an easily anticipated problem in which the rural sides are having an increase in its number of abandoned houses.
