| Title |
A Comparative Study on the Characteristics of Workspaces of Modern Honam Painters |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.14774/JKIID.2026.35.4.044 |
| Keywords |
Modern Painter’s House; Dwelling and Workspace; Workspace Characteristics; Comparative Case Study; Daylighting |
| Abstract |
This study examines the dwellings of two representative modern Honam painters, Oh Ji-ho and Heo Baek-ryeon, comparing the characteristics of their workspaces, together with the way each workspace is related to the living quarters, on the basis of precise measured-survey data. Although both painters have been studied extensively in art history, the architectural composition of the spaces in which they lived and worked has received little attention.
Addressing this gap, the study establishes three analytical axes?site and layout, interior spatial composition and daylighting, and the relationship between dwelling and workspace?and analyzes the two ateliers by combining the perspectives of architectural transformation history and evidence-based design. The analysis shows that the two cases contrast clearly across all three axes. Oh Ji-ho’s house is identified as a separated type, in which the workspace was built as a detached structure two years after the dwelling and, as confirmed through cross-verification of measured drawings and documentary records, secured uniform north-side daylighting through a roof skylight.
Chunseolheon is identified as an integrated type, in which the workspace?a tatami room?was planned within the same building as the living quarters from the time of initial construction. This difference is interpreted as correlating with the differing genres and working methods of the two painters: the standing practice of Western-style painting and the seated practice of Southern-school literati painting. As a comparative case study, this research does not generalize its findings into a universal proposition but clarifies the correlation between painting genre and the characteristics of their workspaces observed between the two cases. The significance of the study lies in offering the first sustained architectural analysis of painters’ workspaces?long treated within art history?from the perspective of interior architecture and on the basis of measured-survey data. |