        
"The 108th, Capturing Space" : VEKE
📌VEKE📌
VEKE is a space that immerses you in nature with pleasant darkness and framing.
* Location: 1139-1 Sinhyo-dong, Seogwipo-si, Jeju
[ A Garden Featuring a Cafe ]
💡Beke is both a café and a botanical garden, a place where people walk slowly, stop, and see nature in a new light under the direction of a 'garden-centered space.' Plants are treated not as decorations but as beings that live in relationship with nature, and the ecological order becomes the program of the space.
[ Pleasant Darkness ]
💡Beke’s ‘pleasant darkness’ is not a blockage to withstand the strong Jeju sunlight, but rather a device that allows one to comfortably view the outside landscape through deep arrangements and dark finishes. The dim interior contrasts with the bright garden, bringing to mind light and shadow, and the grain of the wood more clearly.
[ Three Spaces and Two Corridors ]
The three wings each contain a different atmosphere and sense of dwelling, while the two corridors serve as devices that connect them and simultaneously change the scene. Within the relationships between the segmented wings, the garden functions not as a background, but as the center of an experience that keeps reappearing.
[ A Window to View Nature ]
💡Beke does not unfold the landscape all at once, but arranges nature like a scene through gaps and corridors, and transitions between twilight and brightness. As you walk and stop, the frame changes, and the same garden approaches with a different expression each time.
[ Texture contrasting with nature ]
💡Beke's hard exposed concrete texture serves as a contrasting backdrop that more clearly reveals the tactile sensations of the soft terrain and vegetation. It is a space where the vibrations and colors of nature emerge more distinctly above the cold surface of the architecture.
[ Transition to Opening and Closing, Darkness and Light ]
💡Beke tunes the senses with a sequence of transitions in which expressionless entry and dim interior, open gaps and dense corridors, and nature that opens again are continuous. As closing and opening alternate, the landscape remains not as a background but as a 'scene reached'.
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In addition, if you are curious about the activities of the student reporters?
📌 Please refer to the Architectural Institute of Korea journal ‘建築’ and blog!
📌 Architectural Institute of Korea official site: https://www.aik.or.kr/pages_archive/scholarly_journal.vm
📌 Official blog of the Architectural Institute of Korea Student Reporter Group: https://blog.naver.com/aik_student_reporter
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