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๋ช ํด ์ ์ฌ๋ฆ, ์์ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์ ์๊ณต ํ์ฅ์์ ์์๋ ์ผ์ด๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ฏํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ ธ์ผ ํ ์ฝํฌ๋ฆฌํธ ๋ฒฝ ์ผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋๋ฉด๊ณผ๋ ๋ค๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ธํ๋ถํ ๋ชจ๋๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ ธ ์์๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ณณ์ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์ ์ง์
๊ณต๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ฆ์๋ฟ ์๋๋ผ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ชธ์ด ์ค์น๋ ์ฃผ์ํ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ด์๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ทธ ์๋ํ์ง ์์์ ์ฐธ์ง ๋ชปํ๊ณ ์ฝํฌ๋ฆฌํธ ์ผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๊นจ๊ณ ๋ค์ ์์
ํด ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ๋ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ ๋ ๋ฒฝ์ ๋๋ถ ์๋ฅธ ๋ฏ ๋งค๋ํ์ง๋ง, ์ฌ๋ฃ์ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฌ์ด ์ง๊ฐ์ ์์ ์ฑ ์ฃผ๋ณ ์์์ ์กฐํ๋กญ์ง ๋ชปํ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ง๋ค์๋ค.
์ด ์์ ์ผ์ ๊ฝค ์ค๋ซ๋์ ๋์๊ธฐ๊ณ ์๋ค. ๊ฑด์ถ๋ฌผ์ด ๋ง๋ค์ด์ง๊ธฐ ์ ๊ฑด์ถ๊ฐ๋ ๋๋ฉด์ ํตํด ์ง์์ ์ฐํ ๊ฑด์ถ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ํ์คํํ๋ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ์์์น ์๊ฒ ํํธ๋ฌ์ง๋ ์ผ๋ค์ด ๋น๋ฒํ ์ผ์ด๋๋ค. ๋ฌธ๋ โ์ ๋ ์ ๋ฆฌํด์ผ ํ ๊นโ ๋ผ๋ ์๋ฌธ์ด ๋ค์๋ค. ๋ง์ผ ์ง์์ ๋ฌด์ง์์ ์ฐ์ฐ์ฑ์ ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด๊ณ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ง ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๋จ๊ฒจ์ง๋ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด ๋ถ์กฑํจ์ด ์ด์ฉ๋ฉด ์ธ์๊ณผ ๊ด๊ณ ๋งบ๋ ๋ฐํ์ด ๋๋ค๋ฉด, ํ๋์ ๋จ์ด๊ฐ ์ค์น๋ค. ๋ถ์์ ํจ.
๋ถ์์ ํจ์ ์จ์ ํ์ง ๋ชปํด ๋จ๊ฒจ์ง ์ฌ์ง์ด๋ค. ๋ถ์กฑํจ์ด ์๊ธฐ์ ์ฑ์์ง ์ ์๊ณ , ๋จ๊ฒจ์ ธ ์๊ธฐ์ ์๋ก์ด ๊ด๊ณ๊ฐ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ง ์ ์๋ ๋ณํ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ์์ ๋ถ๋ถ์์ ์์ํ์ง๋ง ๋๋ก๋ ์ ์ฒด์ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ง๋ค๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ๋ถ์์ ํ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ถ์กฑํ๊ณ ๋ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ง ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์์ ์์ํ๋ค.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋
ผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ด๊ณ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฑด์ถ๋ฌผ์ ์ค๊ณํ๊ณ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ฑด์ถ๊ฐ์ด๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ด ์ฑ
์ ๊ฑด์ถ์ ๋ํ ๊ฐ๊ด์ ์ธ ์ฌ์ค์ ๋์ดํ ๊ฒ๋ ์๋๊ณ , ๋์ฑ์ด ์ง์์ ์ฒด๊ณํํด ์์์ ๊ณ ์ทจํ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ ๊ณ๋ชฝ์ ์ธ ์์ ๋ ์๋๋ค. ๋น๋์ ์ง์์ ์ฒด๊ณํํ ์ค์ ์๋ ์๋ฒฝํ ์ฌ์ ์ด ์๋ ์ง๊ธ ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฏธ์ ์ธ์ด์ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง๊ฐ ์์ธ ๋ถ์์ ํ ์ฌ์ ์ด๋ค. ์คํ๋ ค ์ด๊ณณ์ ๋ด๊ธด ๋ด์ฉ์ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์๊ณ ์๋ ์์๊ณผ๋ ๋ค๋ฅผ ์ ์๋ค. ์ ๋์ ์ด๊ณ ์์ฑ๋์ง ์์ ๊ฒฌํด๋ฅผ ์ ํจ์ผ๋ก์จ ์ด ์ฑ
์ ์ ํ ์ด๋ค๊ณผ ์๊ฐ์ ํ์ ๊ณต์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ์์ผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ ์๊ฐํ๋ค.
๋ถ์์ ํ ์ฌ์ ์ ๊ฑด์ถ์ ๋ํ ์๊ฐ์์ ์์๋์์ง๋ง, ์ด์ ๊ตญํํ์ง ์๊ณ ์ผ์์์ ๋ง์ฃผํ๋ ์์ํ ์ฌ๋ฌผ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๊ด๋
์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์น์ ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊น์ง ๋์ ๋ฒ์๋ฅผ ํฌํจํ๋ค. ์ด๋ ๊ฑด์ถ์ด ๋ง๋ค์ด์ง๋ ๊ณผ์ ์ด ๊ฑด์ถ๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ธ ์ง์์ ๋จธ๋ฌผ์ง ์๊ณ ๋ณด๋ค ๋์ ์ถ์ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ด๊ณ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ผ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๊ฑด์ถ๋ฌผ์ ๋
์ ๊ธฐ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ์๋ ๋จ๋จํ ๋ฌผ์ฒด์ด์ง๋ง ๊ณ ์ ๋๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค ์ฌ์ฉ์์ ์ํ, ์ฃผ๋ณ ํ๊ฒฝ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๊ฐ์ ์ํด ๋ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง๋ค. ๋จ์ํ ๋ฉ์ง ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์ ์ง๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค ๊ฑด์ถ์ด ์ด๋ค ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ด์ ์ ์๋์ง๊ฐ ์ค์ํ ์ด์ ๋ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ฑด์ถ๋ฌผ์ ๊ฑด์ถ๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๋งํผ์ด๋ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์ ๋๋ฌ์ผ ํ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ์์ ํจ๊ป ๋์ด ๋ค๋ฉฐ ๋ณํ๋ ์ ์๋ ์ฌ์ง๊ฐ ํ์ํ๋ค. ๊ฑด์ถ์ ๋ ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํ๋ฅธ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋๋ฌ์ผ ์ถ์ ์๊ฐ๋ ํจ๊ป ํ๋ฅธ๋ค.
Prologue
Few years ago, we went to check the construction of a small building. Unlike the smooth surfaces we had detailed in the blueprints, we discovered that part of the constructed concrete wall was misshapen and coarse. As the principal entrance to the building, this section was critical for our vision of the project, not only in terms of its fabrication, but also as a critical functional bypass, perpetually in contact with the body.
Unable to tolerate this mishap, we demanded that it be taken down and redone. The rebuilt section is smooth, yet seems out of place, having lost its original material qualities. This seemingly insignificant event has lingered in our minds. Architects use blueprints to conceive an architecture regulated by order. However, the materialization of these visions can easily become amiss. This made us question the source of our urgent desire โto straighten things upโ. What if we embraced how chance had dealt both order and disorder to the project? What if we allowed parts of the project to persist in their lo-fi state? What if that which we deemed to be incomplete could actually become a backdrop to establish new relationships with the world? A single word came to mind, imperfection.
Imperfection is the room of possibility afforded by that which is incomplete. It is a chance for change, something which can be fulfilled in the presence of absence, something which can use what has been left over to form new relationships. Inspired from the smallest of parts, it can at times grow to establish a complete landscape. Imperfect dictionary was inspired by the potential of that which is lacking, lo-fi and unrefined.
As architects, we design and create projects controlled by sound judgment and structure. However, this book neither seeks to list proven, objective facts about architecture, nor to enlighten its readers through an appraisal of codified knowledge. It does not aim to be an unabridged perfect dictionary furnished with the standardized knowledge of this generation. Rather, it is an inperfect dictionary, a collection of incomplete words and images of the here and now. The contents of this book might even stray from what we accept as common sense. We hope that communicating these fluctuating, incomplete ideas to those who encounter this book, and hence sharing this room for thought, will offer another layer of meaning to its readers.
While inperfect dictionary started from our own perceptions of architecture, this book does not limit itself to these perceptions. It approaches a wide spectrum of issues from the smallest objects we find on a daily basis to greater abstract values. Creating architecture is a process unconfined to the technical knowledge of the architect; it is rather an act which must embrace the broader general landscape of life. While architecture is a firm object which stands rooted in its foundations, it constantly transforms to accommodate its occupants, its surrounding environment and the generations it passes through. This is why the stories embedded within the architecture are more significant than the most exquisite of designs. At the end of the day, architecture demands as much room to age and transform with its surroundings and its occupants, as the technical prowess of the architect. With the passing of time, architecture is in constant flux, accompanied by the changing tide of how we perceive life.
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