?Spring! It?s spring!?

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Architects: Architecture Studio YEIN

Location: 1839-3 Gyo 1(il)-dong, Gangneung, Gangwon-do, South Korea

Architect In Charge: Yesun Choi

Design Team: Myungsun Lee, Hanhee Park, Jeongmee Kim

Area: 966.17 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Yoon, Joonhwan

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?Spring! It?s spring!?This was what we hoped at the beginning of this project the first visitors of the boutique hotel BomBom would call it. (?Bom? is the English transliteration of a Korean word which means the season of ?spring.?)

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Architecture as a means of communicationPeople use various codes as a means of intercommunication or to embed information. The architect believes architecture can be a means of communication and the container of information.
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For travelers, the hotel is not only an accommodation but also an architectural place where they can share information. In this sense, we inserted the codes of ?? (bom)? and ?spring? into the facade image of the hotel. The code on the facade is not just to assume the function of architecture with simple fenestration, but also to serve as a design element that controls the neighboring detrimental scenes, t...