SJCC Glamping Resort designed by Atelier Chang, A radical take on the glamping concept has been launched in South Korea, offering guests the experience of being within a natural setting while enjoying the comfort of architecturally-designed, self-contained living spaces arranged around a communal facility.
Photography: Kyungsub Shin
This new ?minimalist luxury? resort ? adjacent to the Seungju Country Club in Suncheon ? consists of sixteen brightly-coloured living units with an associated reception/restaurant. Each unit offers guests approximately 50m² of living area, as well as two bedrooms and a kitchen and a bathroom manufactured as off-site units.

The project is located some 300 kilometres south of Seoul within lush cypress forests and enjoys distant views over the Korean Strait. Drawing diverse references from natural elements such as the site?s dramatic topography, pebbles and fireflies, the resort offers guests a direct and vivid connection with their natural surroundings. Each unit is well-screened from surrounding units while offering guests dramatic views over Suncheon Ecological Bay. Photography: Kyungsub Shin
The light-weight steel frames, covered with an insulated tent-like fabric, create highly resilient structures which are capable of withstanding the region?s significant annual differences in climatic conditions. The resort includes three principal types of glamping unit: ?Mountain?, ?Cutent? and ?Firefly?, each of which has a distinctive plan and colour s...