Article source: studio_GAON

In Gongju city, Lucia’s husband Johan built a chocolatery and named it <Choco Luce> next to <Lucia’s Earth>, a space provided to study and consume tea.

The building is roofed with blue tiles and is situated adjacent from the fence and the garden of <Lucia’s Earth>. As a layer of cement was, with care, peeled off of pillars from an old Hanok (Korean traditional house) that was revived into the chocolatery, the <Choco Luce> yields rather a modern atmosphere comparatively to that of <Lucia’s Earth>’s traditional sentiment. Re-visitation, I believe, indeed is a glimpse of an aspect of constructing property and a part of building history.

Image Courtesy © Youngchae Park

• Architects: studio_GAON (Hyongnam Lim, Eunjoo Roh)
• Project: Choco Luce
• Location: Gonju-si, Chuncheongnam-do, South Korea
• Photography: Youngchae Park
• Project Team: Seongwon Son, Hanmoe Lee, Minjung Choi, Sangwoo Yi, Sungpil Lee, Joowon Moon
• Use: Chocolatery
• Site Area: 168.6
• Building Area: 71.1
• Gross Floor Area: 71.1
• Building Scope: 1F
• Height: 3.9
• Building-Land Ratio: 42.17%
• Floor Area Ratio: 42.17%
• Structure: Timber Framing
• Finish: Stucco
• Design Period: 2014.12 – 2015.05
• Construction Period: 2015.06 – 2015.09

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