Aewol Workshop House began with a question central to Jeju’s residential culture: how can an existing way of living be sustained within the structure of a traditional village?
The project establishes a configuration in which the client’s family and parents can live “separately yet together,” organizing the site as a gradual sequence—from the village road, through the local olle path, to the family’s private domain.
This gradation shapes both the architectural order and the social rhythm of the house.

The entrance opens as an act of welcome, leading directly to a semi-public workshop on the first floor, a space accessible to neighbors and visitors.
Adjacent to it, the family-oriented ground-floor areas serve as places for shared daily life, while the second floor forms a protected realm reserved solely for the client’s household.
The design balances openness and retreat, maintaining a measured relationship between the public character of the workshop and the intimacy of the dwelling.

At its core, the project reflects on what it means to build “in a Jeju way.”
The island’s villages retain layers of collective memory and long-standing communal patterns, and these traces guide the spatial logic of the house.
Connections to the existing landscape, to earlier building footprints, to family structure, and to the rhythms of village life all converge into a dwelling that seeks continuity rather than replacement.