HOMECC Interior '2022 34th Korea Interior Architecture Competition'

Co-hosted with the Korean Society of Interior Architects; Grand Prize goes to 'A Resting Place for Paper (紙), the Preservation of Knowledge (知): The Shared Preservation Archive'

'HOMECC Interior,' the specialized interior brand of KCC Glass (Chairman Chung Mong-ik), has selected and announced the winning works of the '2022 34th Korea Interior Architecture Competition,' co-hosted with the Korean Society of Interior Architects (KOSID).

The Korea Interior Architecture Competition is a leading domestic interior architecture design competition with a long history and tradition. To support the broadening of interior architecture design and the discovery of new talent, KCC Glass has co-hosted the competition with the Korean Society of Interior Architects through HOMECC Interior for 13 years since 2010.

This year's competition, now in its 34th edition, once again drew the participation of many talented future interior architecture designers. Through the submission period that began this past June, a total of 240 works were entered, and after the first and second rounds of judging, 110 creative works were selected as final award winners, including the Grand Prize (1 work), the Best Awards (2 works), the Excellence Awards (5 works), and the Encouragement Awards (23 works).

The honor of the Grand Prize went to the student team of Oh Chang-kyung and Yu Hyun-jung of Inha Technical College, who submitted the work titled 'A Resting Place for Paper (紙), the Preservation of Knowledge (知): The Shared Preservation Archive.' This Grand Prize-winning work was conceived to address the problem of libraries suffering from a lack of space due to the ever-increasing number of books each year. It drew high interest from the judges by designing a preservation archive based on the concept of 'Chaekgeori'—a still-life painting that represents the Korean culture of treasuring books—set in the mountains of Bonghwa-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, where the Bonghwa Taebaeksan History Archive Site (奉化 太白山史庫址), one of the five great archives of the Joseon Dynasty, is located.

In addition, the HOMECC Award, one of the Best Awards, went to the student team of Jeon So-hyun, Kim Tae-kyung, and Kim Su-hyun of Hanyang Women's University for the work titled 'NEW CULTURE: GARDEN SHARING,' while the other Best Award, the Award of the Chairman of the Interior Architecture Construction Business Council of the Korea Specialty Contractors Association, went to Cheon Eun-young of Baekseok University for the work titled 'CHRONOTOPE: A World Beyond Time and Space.' The Grand Prize winner receives a certificate and prize money of 6 million won, the Best Award winners each receive a certificate and prize money of 3 million won, and the remaining award winners each receive a certificate and prize money as well.

Mo Jung-hyun, Chairwoman of the Korean Society of Interior Architects, which co-hosted the competition, said in her award remarks, "The Korea Interior Architecture Competition is a leading domestic interior architecture competition that serves as a gateway for emerging designers," adding, "I applaud the effort and dedication of the winners who earned the honor of an award amid fierce competition, and I also send my support and encouragement to the students who did not win."

A KCC Glass official said, "We have continued to sponsor the Korea Interior Architecture Competition to contribute to the development of the interior industry through the discovery of talent," adding, "Going forward, we plan to continue providing various forms of support so that the Korea Interior Architecture Competition can be not merely a competition, but a festival and a place of exchange in the field of interior architecture where many future designers come together."

Grand Prize / 'A Resting Place for Paper (紙), the Preservation of Knowledge (知): The Shared Preservation Archive' / Inha Technical College, Oh Chang-kyung, Yu Hyun-jung Conceived to address the problem of libraries suffering from a lack of space due to the ever-increasing number of books each year, this work designed a preservation archive based on the concept of 'Chaekgeori'—a still-life painting that represents the Korean culture of treasuring books—set in the mountains of Bonghwa-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, where the Bonghwa Taebaeksan History Archive Site (奉化 太白山史庫址), one of the five great archives of the Joseon Dynasty, is located.

Best Award, HOMECC Award / 'NEW CULTURE: GARDEN SHARING' / Hanyang Women's University, Jeon So-hyun, Kim Tae-kyung, Kim Su-hyun Most people do small-scale gardening on apartment balconies or house staircases. We propose garden sharing, where people can share knowledge together in a broader space and share companion plants that are as dear as one's own children. Through a process that guides people across five spaces—Square, a natural space; Sliding module garden, getting closer; Cup garden cafe, hands-on participation; Seed store, familiarity; and Garden, the start of a new culture—new sharing experiences are provided to people step by step, allowing a garden-sharing culture to take root in the city.

Best Award, Award of the Chairman of the Interior Architecture Construction Business Council of the Korea Specialty Contractors Association / 'CHRONOTOPE: A World Beyond Time and Space' / Baekseok University, Cheon Eun-young Because there is a need to utilize the virtual convergence world as a means of prompting cooperation and communication between people—beyond technology and people—this work, based on <Extended Reality>, planned the 'Virtual Connecting Platform,' a venue for space-creation simulation where users can directly create and experience spaces while moving across time and space. Each space utilizes VR, AR, and MR—which make up XR, the virtual convergence world—to divide the program into a user-participation-based AR creative space, a historical-heritage-reproduction VR exhibition space, and a futuristic mutual-exchange MR experience space.