Ananti Jeju Clubhouse

A Space of Transition Connecting Activity and Landscape Ananti Jeju Clubhouse

The renewal of Ananti Jeju Clubhouse reorganizes the relationships between programs around the activities of its users. Arriving at the clubhouse, meeting companions, preparing for a round, and spending time afterward each involve different rhythms and sensory experiences. The design begins by examining this sequence of activities, considering the spaces each function requires and the relationships between them. Within the particular conditions of Jeju, a central challenge was determining which activities should be accommodated indoors and which could be opened to the outdoors.

Reinterpreting the program involves removing functions accumulated through convention and clarifying the role of each necessary space. Here, creating openness is distinct from simply reducing floor area. Room to move or wait, and spaces that allow views to extend outward, are equally essential to the user’s experience. By reconsidering the distinction between primary and supporting spaces, the design places spaces for connection and pause at the center of the plan. Decisions about what to remove must therefore be made alongside decisions about where to provide spatial generosity.

This approach takes shape in the decision to transform the lobby into an outdoor space. Open to the elements and without mechanical heating or cooling, the lobby continues to welcome visitors and connect the clubhouse’s functions while becoming a place to experience the sky, water, and nature of Jeju. Assigning the lobby’s traditionally indoor program to an outdoor setting also changes the character of the boundary between architecture and nature. The lobby is conceived as both a threshold between outside and inside and a transitional space that mediates the sensory experience between arrival and staying. In this arrangement, outdoor space becomes an integral part of the clubhouse program.

The relationship between circulation and visual perception is central to the design of this transitional space. Where the eye rests while walking toward a destination, how much room is needed while waiting for companions, and how movement gives way to stillness are considered together. Program, in this sense, encompasses the subtle actions that accompany a designated function. Moving quickly through a place and pausing there to take in the landscape produce different experiences of the same setting. In the open-air lobby, functional connections and sensory openness are carefully balanced so that users can move and linger at their own pace. Ease of use, free from unnecessary obstacles, serves as a guiding criterion.

The landscape here takes shape through the relationship between the moving body and its surroundings. Views of the sky and water, together with the sensation of outdoor air and light, become part of the acts of arriving and waiting. Changing conditions of time and weather also contribute to the experience of the lobby. Nature extends beyond a backdrop surrounding the clubhouse to become a condition through which the space is perceived and used. Opening the lobby to the outdoors means welcoming these changes into the everyday life of the building. Rest and leisure in Jeju begin with this tangible relationship between program and landscape.

Experience accumulated through the design of multiple clubhouses provided a foundation for reorganizing the program. The process involved understanding functional and operational requirements, then testing their relationships against the conditions of a new site. Solutions developed in previous projects were adjusted and reinterpreted within Jeju’s environment. In this renewal, that exploration led to the removal of unnecessary functions and the opening of the lobby. The scope of the project extends to the distribution and connection of programs, as well as the ways users experience the place. By allowing an outdoor space to assume a central role within the clubhouse, the design brings essential functions and encounters with nature together along a continuous route. The open-air lobby gives spatial expression to this intention.