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사람과 사람 사이 (人人間), 비워짐을 규정한 사이 (空空間), 시와 시의 사이 (時時間).
누구도 규정할 수 없는 사이에 대한 고민을 공간과 자연을 통해 담아낸 6폭의 병풍을 기획했다.

처음 현장을 방문했을 때에는 건축 골조가 올라가고 있었고 직접 공사를 진행하던 클라이언트는 이 곳이 일반적인 숙소가 아니었으면 하는 바람을 담아 갤러리같은 공간이길 바랐다. 우리는 자연 속에 세워진 이 건물이 주변의 자연을 담아내는 하얀 캔버스처럼 느껴졌다.

공간을 다른 것으로 채우는 것이 아니라 공간 자체가 작품이길 바라며 제주의 친숙한 자연 요소인 돌, 물, 땅, 하늘, 바람, 그리고 이 곳에 채울 숨(흔적)을 주제로 6폭의 병풍을 세우기로 했다.

작가가 여행을 떠난 ‘사이’ 이 곳에 머무르며 비워진 갤러리를 향유하는 듯한 일상적이지 않은 경험을 통해 비일상의 감각을 느끼길 바랐다.
이 곳에서 머무르는 시간이 인생이란 시간 속 쉼표처럼 비워져 있는 사이의 시간이 되기를.

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There is a gap between people. The distance or interval between one place and another is exists  everywhere. It can be a physical interval or a psychological distance. And the gap is needed for anyone anywhere. Gongsaido is a stay in Namwon, the warmest southern village of Jeju. The design team  ATMOROUND planned a six-wide folding screen in order to tell the story of ‘gap’ defined by no one.

In the interior space behind the minimal shape of exterior frame, an exhibition for the six-wide folding  screen is going on.
The architectural framework had already been completed at the site where the design team first visited. The client wanted a space like a monochrome gallery with nothing decorative. The design team imagined white concrete. The space of a white canvas becomes a background that embraces the beautiful changes of the surrounding nature.

The  main character here is nature. What was needed to express nature thoroughly was emptiness.
The space itself becomes a white folding screen. The design team assumed it as a six-wide folding screen considering the existing framework, and added natural elements that are most familiar to Jeju such as stone, water, breath, earth, sky, and wind. They filled the six widths with these six natural elements, expressing the overall concept and branding of Gongsaido.

A customer can feel an unusual sense through a nondaily experience to stay and enjoy a gallery emptied by an artist going on a journey. In the long corridor inside, there are gallery tickets and pamphlets. The  customer slowly looks around the space, and follows the furniture and objects with a special concept according to the designer’s intention

There are canvases and tools instead of the TV in the living room, that seem to have been used by the artist.
Through unusual elements far from daily stimuli such as white cloth on the sofa covered by the artist before going on a long journey, chair which feels like a mass sculpted by the artist rather than furniture, and distance between object and object put in the air, we become to look into ourselves existing in it. The ‘gap’ is an important concept here, between person and person, between space and space, between times when various people have stayed.

That’s why this space is named ‘Gongsaido’ which means “a picture of the empty gap”.
The white empty space contains nature changing every moment, and creates a street where cool winds come and go.