A reforestation and landscaping project taking into account everyday materials, ecology, adaptive reuse of building elements, and introduction of a new brewery for the client.

The complexity of what it means to ‘build’ is at odds with planetary processes in the forestry around the proposal site in Chuncheon. In response IRL designed a clear and technical architecture as an attitude towards territorial considerations of landscaping, terraforming, and forestry.

Having learnt the craft of brewing beer throughout Europe, the client believed brickwork to be an essential element for the typology of a brewery. IRL proposed a breathable exterior framework containing bricks allowing light to filter in, as well as ease-of-maintenance.

The grid of the building is the minimal dimensionality to allow for grain and standardised beer crates to be manoeuvred both within and across the site.

The drinking rooms were an interiorisation of the Pocha-style bars originating from Pojangmachas or street stalls in South Korea, with the aim of allowing for conviviality whilst including the possibility of privacy if necessary.

What is designed here is an easily understood building apparatus and program that can be read and understood in the construction/ deconstruction of the building whilst simultaneously allowing for both logistical and experiential use.

Location: Chuncheon, South Korea
Type: Mixed-Use (Brewery, Bar, Public Garden)
Year: 2019
Lead: Karl Herdersch
Team: Kelvin Kaifung Chan, Noriyuki Ishii