일본 협소주택

Cell Brick by Artelier Tekuto

직업 디자이너인 건축주와 2명의 성인 자녀들이 기거할 집으로 지어졌다고 한다.

아무래도 직업이 디자이너인 만큼 자신이 거주할 집에 대한 여러가지 아이디어들이 있었을 것이다.

먼저 구조재가 특이하다. 건축가는 기본 구조재로 H450 × W900 × D300 × 6-9mm 의 철재 스토리지 박스를 쌓아올릴 것을 제안했고, 건축주 또한 이를 받아들여 이 집이 만들어지게 된다. 즉 기본적으로 조적(벽돌)구조와 유사한 구조가 된다.

건축가의 이 구조재 제안은 협소한 지역으로의 [자재반입의 어려움]이라는 현실적인 문제에서 비롯된 것이다. 사진상으로는 사이트가 코너에 위치하고 있고 도로가 비교적 여유있어보이지만, 아마도 이곳으로 진입하기 위한 중간 어디쯤에선가 병목이 있지 않았을까 싶다.

우리나라 또한 일반승용차조차 진입하기 어려운 지역이 드물지 않다는 것을 생각해볼때, 건축가의 이 아이디어는 참고할만해 보인다.

10평의 건폐율로 1~3층까지 쌓아올린 평면이다.

특이한 것은 1층에 Bed Room과 Diding Room이 공존하고 있다는 것이다. 벽 대신에 계단 한 단 만큼의 단차를 둠으로써 공간을 구분하고 있다. 좋은 아이디어라고 생각하는 사람들도 있겠으나, 개인적으로 내 취향은 아니다.

2층은 Void를 두어 좁은 공간에 개방감을 주려 한 것으로 보인다.

Void가 아닌 곳에는 화장실이 있다. 호불호가 크게 나뉠것 같다.

3층에 있는 Bed-Room이다. 이 집에서 내가 고른 가장 맘에 드는 공간이다.

Top-Light때문인데, 비오는날 빗방울 떨어지는 소리를 들으며 보고만 있어도 힐링이 될 것 같다.

그리고 지하. 이 지하공간은 여러모로 쓸모가 있어보인다.

벽면이 노출콘크리트인것처럼 보이는데, 음악을 듣기위한 곳으로 꾸미면 어떨까?

예전 어떤 박물관의 사방이 대리석으로 둘러쌓인 정말 커다란 전시실에 들어간 적이 있다. 마침 그곳에서는 한 라디오방송국에서 어느 아카펠라 중창단의 노래를 녹음하고 있었다.  사방에 음이 반사되며 퍼지던 노랫소리는 마치 천상의 소리같았다. 그때의 그곳과는 모든 것이 다르겠지만....로망으로써... 

디자인적으로는 내 취향은 분명 아니다.

여기저기 뻥뻥 뚫려있는 곳으로 들어오는 빛도 산만해보일것 같다.

철재로 이루어진 공간들은 차가와보인다. 차가운 낌을 커버하는 어떤 디자인적인 장치가 있었으면 좋았을것 같다.

난 따뜻한 집이 좋다.

다만, 건축가의 문제해결을 위한 고민과 시도는 흥미롭다.

Oil on canvas
73.0 x 92.0 cm.
Saint-Rémy: June, 1889
F 612, JH 1731

New York: The Museum of Modern Art

Starry Night is probably Vincent van Gogh's most famous painting. Instantly recognizable because of its unique style, this work has been the subject of poetry, fiction, CD-ROMs as well as the well known song "Vincent" or "Starry, Starry Night" by Don McLean.

While there's no denying the popularity of Starry Night, it's also interesting to note that there is very little known about Vincent's own feelings toward his work. This is mainly due to the fact that he only mentions it in his letters to Theo twice (Letters 595 and 607), and then only in passing. In his correspondence with his brother, Vincent would often discuss specific works in great detail, but not so in the case of Starry Night. Why? It's difficult to say.

Starry Night was painted while Vincent was in the asylum at Saint-Rémy and his behaviour was very erratic at the time, due to the severity of his attacks. Unlike most of Van Gogh's works, Starry Night was painted from memory and not outdoors as was Vincent's preference. This may, in part, explain why the emotional impact of the work is so much more powerful than many of Van Gogh's other works from the same period.

Some people have made stylistic comparisons to Vincent's other well known and equally turbulent work Wheatfield with Crows. Does the tumultuous style of these works reflect a tortured mind? Or is there something more we can read within the whorls Vincent's raging night sky? This is what makes Starry Night not only Vincent's most famous work, but also one of its most frequently interpreted in terms of its meaning and importance.

Some people have speculated about the eleven stars in the painting. While it's true that Vincent didn't have the same religious fervour in 1889, when he painted the work, as he did in his earlier years, there is a possibility that the story of Joseph in the Old Testament may have had an influence on the composition of the work.

'Look, I have had another dream' he said, 'I thought I saw the sun, the moon and eleven stars, bowing to me.'  Genesis 37:9

Whatever the interpretations or underlying meanings, Starry Night stands out as one of the most important works of art produced in the nineteenth century.

뉴욕 현대미술관 관련출판물에서의 설명

The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published 1999, p. 35

Van Gogh's night sky is a field of roiling energy. Below the exploding stars, the village is a place of quiet order. Connecting earth and sky is the flamelike cypress, a tree traditionally associated with graveyards and mourning. But death was not ominous for van Gogh. "Looking at the stars always makes me dream," he said, "Why, I ask myself, shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? Just as we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star."

The artist wrote of his experience to his brother Theo: "This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big." This morning star, or Venus, may be the large white star just left of center in The Starry Night. The hamlet, on the other hand, is invented, and the church spire evokes van Gogh's native land, the Netherlands. The painting, like its daytime companion, The Olive Trees, is rooted in imagination and memory. Leaving behind the Impressionist doctrine of truth to nature in favor of restless feeling and intense color, as in this highly charged picture, van Gogh made his work a touchstone for all subsequent Expressionist painting.