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Jun Aizaki
Jun Aizaki Founder & Owner at Crème Jun Aizaki Architecture & Design
I wonder where the art is, it seems...
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6.25
Meryem Yalcin
Meryem Yalcin Assistant Professor at TOBB University of Economics and Technology
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9
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7.5
Hans J. Galutera
Hans J. Galutera Founder and CEO at HG DesignWorks LLC
Beautiful and artistic...the use of...
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8.5
George Foussias
George Foussias Director of Interior Design at Lemay
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7
7
5
6.5
Dang Ming
Dang Ming Founding Partner / Chief Designer at HONG Designworks / XUST
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5
8
6
6.25
Mike Tristram
Mike Tristram Strategic Lead at Checkland Kindleysides
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7
Rosie Haslem
Rosie Haslem Director at Spacelab / Labthinks
Strong feature of the central stair...
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6.25
Sonya Simmonds
Sonya Simmonds Global Head of Design & Build at Spotify
The forms within the space are real...
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5.5
Mustafa Afsaroglu
Mustafa Afsaroglu Interior Designer, Co-founder at TS-DS
The fourth floor is particularly an...
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5
6.25
Francesca Perani
Francesca Perani Founder at Francesca Perani Enterprise
Extremely powerful and unique store...
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6
8.25
Wang Guan
Wang Guan Founder of Matrix Design at Matrix Design
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5
6.25
Luís Pedra Silva
Luís Pedra Silva Founder and Lead Architect at Pedra Silva Arquitectos
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5
5
3
4.75
Jose Manuel Ferrero
Jose Manuel Ferrero Creative Director at Estudihac JM Ferrero
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6
Minyu Zhang
Minyu Zhang Interior Design Director at SUNAC ShangHai Group
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6
7
6
6.75
Client
Sei Kim
Floor area
140 ㎡
Completion
2020

Hill of deep stillness, 密謐阿_Milmila At the end of the hill past through the noisy downtown of Itaewon, on a site with an exceptionally calm atmosphere in between the close-set residential districts, there the 'Hill of deep stillness, 密謐阿_Milmila' is. Located on a high hill facing Namsan and overlooking the city, this is a space prepared for the training of yoga leaders by YOGAKULA Master Sei Kim who has been hosting the Korea Yoga Conference which is the best yoga event in Korea and the Global Yoga Mala Project. Yoga Kula, a community of mind, which means being together, is a community that seeks to receive inspiration and energy through training and study based on the Priya Yoga philosophy. Here, Priya means to welcome and accept the divine energy of a person's Atman that is a person's nature, ego, and soul. People today are hungry for warm and sincere touch. The essential meaning of yoga is seeking to go to the state of human intrinsic mind of peace by controlling the mind and restraining movements. It improves the quality of life through healing life and restoring healthy relationship by reading people's energy to help the body align and by communication through intuition to bring healing to modern society related physical, mental, emotional problems and wounds. In order to fulfill the essential meaning of yoga in this space, in order to realize the flow and depth of the space with the concept of 'Meditation on Movement', Ashtanga Yoga, the 8 stage training process of meditation in motion is largely divided into ethical, physical, and psychological stages focusing on reflecting the sequence of space. The ethical stage refers to arduous footsteps towards this place and it also refers to a stage of purification (Yama, Nyama) seeing and entering into this place from the end of the alley. The straight shape of metal block seen between steep slopes and unordered buildings leads a long foot traffic with the 'I' shape wall. This metal block connects from the outside to the inside making the urban landscape disaapear as you walk pass, and leads you to enter the space peacefully with the depth of the contours of light and shadow. This leads to the entrance of the interior space, and it is meaningful in that the interior and the exterior are transmitted and reflected to each other with no boundaries between them by homogenizing them. The space at the physical stage is the stage of controlling the senses (Asana, Pranayama, Pratayahara). This space reflects the physical properties of a tree that has been carefully trimed to focus on the unity and communion of the self, and expresses its energy with stones to give a centripetal role in which an object exists. Soft elements, heavy objects, and the flexibility of the boundary where nature interacts help you experience the flexibility of the body and the openness of emotions. Finally, the space of the psychological stage is the space of samadhi, that is, the space of serenity that does not have its own nature but shines only as an object. This concept is reflected in the space for bath and meditation, and it emphasizes the power and atmosphere of an empty space, homogenizes nature and objects, and becomes a lyrical space where the boundary between consciousness and unconsciousness creates an intersection of thought.