'Chocolate box' or Jeong Gil Young artist studio is located in North Gyeongsang Province, Qingdao, designed by Yoon Space. The people who see the first Chocolate Box, they can see it as showroom or gallery, but chocolate box is a special work, created for the studio of a writer Jeong Gil-Young. The studio expressed the writer's and Yoon Space's individuality through emptiness is part and the use of bold colors in part to make his work look better according to nature of the studio.

front view of chocolate box-presents itself as it is natural. 

Chocolate Box is a lonely space was also made with special materials. The interior of this studio is made up of an ordinary urethane floor and the wall was made from common wood veneer and bricks. Those materials are very common. Not entertaining in style or with nothing special such conditions were given to the designer. In these conditions,  the space gives a special sense was made by using the bold colours on the floor and giving variety to the bricklaying method.

The commonly used and ordinary materials were applied to the unfamiliar appearances and shapes for creating the challenging and differentiated space. Many people think the lighting is also very unique. but it is made of the ordinary fluorescent lamps.

The familiar and customary ways were just changed. Every effort has been made to express the unfamiliar appearances with these familiar material properties. Yoon Space led by Yook Seok-Min says that 'I wanted to make new paradigm and sense through 'defamilarization' of our familiar things. But that does not mean what I have done is great. At the moment when giving variety to the height and arrangement even of the ordinary fluorescent lamps''. 

lighting is the key component of the design that frames the building.

This minimalism creates new design. With the concept of twist' only, it breaks stereotypes and seems to be special. Colouring on the floor is in the same vein. Everything is sometimes very ordinary and sometimes very special in Chocolate Box.

Project Facts

Architects: Yoon Space

Location: Gakbuk-myeon, Cheongdo-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

Architect in Charge: Yoon Seok-min 

Area: 90.0 sqm

Design Team: Rita-kim / SP R&D. Park Jung-su

Construction: SP R&D. Park Jung-su

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