The HMS House: Hanok Restoration and Adaptive Re-use - The HMS Memorial Museum of Literature (since 2007)

Date: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Lecturer: 
Architect CHO, In-Souk (Principal of DaaRee Architect & Associates)
Venue: 
2nd-floor Residents’ Lounge, Somerset Palace
Admission: 
5,000 won (non-member); free for members

“The HMS House” is a privately initiated conservation and restoration project integrating an existing Hanok, a traditional Korean house of wooden structure, using organic materials. It is located in Myeongryun-Dong, Seoul. The house was the home of Hahn Moo-Sook (1918 – 1993), a noted Korean novelist who first began to publish in the 1940s. Her eldest son, Dr. Kim Hoagy and his wife continue to live in this house which is now part of a museum designed to perpetuate her memory. The lecture shows the procedure and the key points of the restoration work.

 

CHO, In-Souk is an architect. A handy guide book “Seoul’s Historic Walks” is one of her efforts; she is currently a commissioner of the Presidential Committee for the Asian Hub-City of Culture.

Her most recent projects include a design for the Cheongansa Buddhist temple and the restoration work of the Hahn Moo-Sook House in Seoul. “The HMS House” was selected for the

ARCASIA (Architects Regional Council ASIA) Award for Architecture 2011/ 2012 in the Category D-2: Restoration and Adaptive Re-use. And the architectural design of the Buddhist temple “Cheongansa” in Seoul was awarded the title “This year’s Korean Hanok 2011.”

 

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