Visit

Passive houses are argued about in numbers and believed in person. Ten minutes inside — the stillness of the air, the warmth of a floor no radiator feeds, the way the madang throws light onto a ceiling — settles more than any chart we could show you. So the studio keeps a model house, and its doors are open.

The model house

A full one-bay hanok passive house stands beside the workshop: pine frame exposed, one wall left in section behind glass so you can read every layer from hanji face to giwa tile. It is heated by nothing but its own envelope and whoever is standing in it. In winter we leave a thermometer by the door and let it make our argument; in summer, we open the two doors that matter and let the tongpung make it instead.

Hours and appointments

Open Tuesday to Saturday, ten to five, by appointment. Write to visit@hanok-studio.example with two or three dates that suit you; visits run about ninety minutes and are led by whoever is not covered in sawdust that day — often the founders, occasionally an apprentice who will be more honest. Groups from schools and building trades are welcome and get the long version, test rig included.

Finding us

The workshop and model house share a yard at 11 Dumun-gil, Cheongun-ri, at the mouth of the Dumun Valley. From the regional rail station at Baeksan, the valley bus runs hourly and stops at the timber yard gate — tell the driver you are visiting the house without nails, which has become, without our planning it, the official name of the stop. Drivers should follow the river road and trust it longer than feels reasonable.

Bring questions, and shoes you can slip off at the toenmaru. The floor is the exhibit.