项目名称： 无心斋（MUSIMJAE）

地点： 公州，韩国

设计团队： TAAL Architects

建筑面积： 187 m²

完工时间： 2022年

摄影师： Kim Yongsu

设计特色：

项目 - 韩国建筑事务所TAAL Architects在鸡龙山山麓完成了"无心斋"住宅项目，这座沉思性的住宅通过建筑设计诠释了佛教正念的理念。这座面积为187平方米的住宅，其名字"无心斋"寓意"无分别之心的场所"，不仅回应了其壮丽的自然环境，更体现了佛教"无分别心"的概念——一种远离分别与妄想的心境。

"将这一哲学概念转化为建筑语言是一个挑战，"设计团队解释道。"我们最终确定，这座房子应该成为一个门槛，让业主一入其门就能摆脱世俗的干扰。"

设计方案体现在精心编排的空间序列中，通过战略性布置的落地窗将鸡龙山的山脊线框景而入。二楼客厅采用倾斜的墙面来戏剧性地强调这些景观，同时透明的栏杆确保了景观视线不受阻碍。

TAAL Architects在这座朴实的建筑中运用了既微妙又精致的设计手法。卧室的窗户与床高齐平，创造出与周围森林和天空的亲密联系，阁楼的天窗则开启通向夜空的视野。随着居住者攀登楼梯，还可以逐步看到鸡龙山最高峰的景致。

借鉴历史学家金富轼对百济宫殿"俭而不陋，丽而不奢"的描述，建筑师在形式和材料上都追求精致的简约。住宅紧凑的占地面积和人字形屋顶轮廓下，通过对场地地形的巧妙回应，营造出富有深意的内部空间体量。

尽管规模有限，"无心斋"通过变化的层高和经过深思熟虑的视角框景实现了空间的丰富性。建筑师在材料选择和细节处理上的克制，创造出他们所描述的"含蓄的庄重感"——一个恰到好处的空间，既不过分也不不足。这个项目展示了当代建筑如何在与传统哲学原则对话的同时，创造出既能回应场地又能满足客户需求的空间。

团队 - TAAL Architects于2000年代末在纽约成立，2013年迁至首尔，已发展成为韩国最具思考深度的建筑事务所之一，以其对空间营造的现象学方法和对场地背景的敏锐度而闻名。该事务所由Zo Hangman和Seo Jiyoung共同创立，两人均毕业于哥伦比亚大学建筑规划与保护研究生院（GSAPP）。

在现任负责人、LEED认证建筑师Seo Jiyoung以及创始合伙人、首尔国立大学教授Zo Hangman的带领下，事务所发展出了独特的设计方法论，将本土智慧与当代建筑话语相融合。他们的综合服务模式涵盖总体规划、建筑设计、室内建筑和环境咨询。

事务所的作品展现了对构造学和材料性的严谨追求，2022年完成的"无心斋"住宅项目就是一个典范，其中佛教哲学通过对空间序列和现象学体验的细致考量转化为建筑形式。他们的作品获得多项重要奖项，包括2010年WAN奖、2009年和2010年AIANY设计奖，以及2016年金秀根奖。TAAL Architects通过以研究为导向的方法和对可持续设计解决方案的承诺，持续推进建筑实践的边界。

Project Name: MUSIMJAE

Location: Gongju, South Korea

Design Team: TAAL Architects

Area: 187 m²

Completion Year: 2022

Photography: Kim Yongsu

Feature：

Project - South Korean architecture studio TAAL Architects has completed MUSIMJAE, a contemplative residence nestled in the foothills of Mount Gyeryong that embraces Buddhist principles of mindfulness through architectural design.

The 187-square-metre home, whose name translates to "a place of undiscriminating mind," responds to its spectacular natural setting while embodying the Buddhist concept of "MuBunByulSim" – a state of mind free from discrimination and delusion.

"The challenge was translating this philosophical concept into architectural language," explained lead architect Zo Hangman. "We concluded that the house should serve as a threshold where the owner can shed worldly distractions upon entering."

The studio's response manifests in a carefully orchestrated sequence of spaces that frame views of Mount Gyeryong's ridgeline through strategically placed floor-to-ceiling windows. In the second-floor living room, angled walls dramatize these vistas, while transparent balustrades ensure unobstructed sight lines to the landscape.

TAAL Architects employed subtle yet sophisticated design moves throughout the modest structure. Bedrooms feature windows aligned with bed height to create intimate connections with the surrounding forest and sky, while a loft skylight opens to the night sky. The stairwell offers progressive reveals of Sammubbong, the mountain's highest peak, as residents ascend.

Drawing inspiration from historian Kim Busik's description of Baekje palaces as "modest but not shabby, elegant but not luxurious," the architects pursued refined simplicity in both form and material. The home's compact footprint and gabled roof profile belie its sophisticated internal volumes, created through a careful response to the site's topography.

Despite its limited size, MUSIMJAE achieves spatial richness through varying ceiling heights and thoughtfully framed perspectives. The architects' restraint in material selection and detailing results in what they describe as "subtle dignity" – a space that contains exactly what is necessary, nothing more and nothing less.

The project demonstrates how contemporary architecture can engage with traditional philosophical principles while creating spaces that respond sensitively to both site and client needs.

Design Team - TAAL Architects, established in New York in the late 2000s before relocating to Seoul in 2013, has emerged as one of South Korea's most thoughtful architectural practices, known for their phenomenological approach to space-making and contextual sensitivity. The firm was co-founded by Zo Hangman and Seo Jiyoung, both alumni of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP).

Under the current leadership of Principal Seo Jiyoung, LEED AP, and Founding Partner Zo Hangman, who also serves as a Professor at Seoul National University, the practice has cultivated a distinctive design methodology that synthesizes vernacular wisdom with contemporary architectural discourse. Their integrated service model encompasses master planning, architectural design, interior architecture, and environmental consulting.

The firm's portfolio demonstrates a rigorous commitment to tectonics and materiality, exemplified in projects like MUSIMJAE residence (2022), where Buddhist philosophy is translated into architectural form through careful consideration of spatial sequences and phenomenological experiences. Their work has garnered significant recognition, including the 2010 WAN Award, AIANY Design Awards (2009, 2010), and the Kim Swoogeun Preview Award (2016).

Operating from their Seoul headquarters, TAAL Architects continues to push the boundaries of architectural practice through their research-driven approach and commitment to sustainable design solutions.