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Milmila Yoga Center

Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim

MILMILA YOGA CENTER

100A associates

ARCHITECTS
100A associates

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Kwang-il An, Sol-ha Park

MANUFACTURERS
American Standard, A-sang, E plus, Shinmyeong flooring, Vista, samhwa

DESIGN TEAM
Dong-soo Kim, Jin-wook Jung, Jong-kyung Ryu

CLIENTS
Sei Kim

PHOTOGRAPHS
Jae-yoon Kim

AREA
140 m2

YEAR
2020

LOCATION
Yongsan-gu, South Korea

CATEGORY
Wellbeing, House Interiors, Sports Interiors

At the end of the hill past through the noisy downtown of Itaewon, on a site with an exceptionally calm atmosphere in between the close-set residential districts, there the 'Hill of deep stillness, 密謐阿_Milmila' is.

Milmila Yoga Center
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Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim
Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim

Located on a high hill facing Namsan and overlooking the city, this is a space prepared for the training of yoga leaders by YOGAKULA Master Sei Kim who has been hosting the Korea Yoga Conference which is the best yoga event in Korea and the Global Yoga Mala Project.

Yoga Kula, a community of mind, which means being together, is a community that seeks to receive inspiration and energy through training and study based on the Priya Yoga philosophy.

Here, Priya means to welcome and accept the divine energy of a person's Atman that is a person's nature, ego, and soul.

Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim
Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim

People today are hungry for warm and sincere touch. The essential meaning of yoga is seeking to go to the state of human intrinsic mind of peace by controlling the mind and restraining movements.

It improves the quality of life through healing life and restoring healthy relationship by reading people's energy to help the body align and by communication through intuition to bring healing to modern society related physical, mental, emotional problems and wounds.

In order to fulfill the essential meaning of yoga in this space, in order to realize the flow and depth of the space with the concept of 'Meditation on Movement', Ashtanga Yoga.

Milmila Yoga Center
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Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim

The 8 stage training process of meditation in motion is largely divided into ethical, physical, and psychological stages focusing on reflecting the sequence of space.

The ethical stage refers to arduous footsteps towards this place and it also refers to a stage of purification (Yama, Nyama) seeing and entering into this place from the end of the alley.

The straight shape of metal block seen between steep slopes and unordered buildings leads a long foot traffic with the 'I' shape wall.

Milmila Yoga Center
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Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim

This metal block connects from the outside to the inside making the urban landscape disappear as you walk pass, and leads you to enter the space peacefully with the depth of the contours of light and shadow.

This leads to the entrance of the interior space, and it is meaningful in that the interior and the exterior are transmitted and reflected to each other with no boundaries between them by homogenizing them.

The space at the physical stage is the stage of controlling the senses (Asana, Pranayama, Pratayahara).

Milmila Yoga Center
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Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim

This space reflects the physical properties of a tree that has been carefully trimmed to focus on the unity and communion of the self, and expresses its energy with stones to give a centripetal role in which an object exists.

Soft elements, heavy objects, and the flexibility of the boundary where nature interacts help you experience the flexibility of the body and the openness of emotions.

Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim
Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim

Finally, the space of the psychological stage is the space of samadhi, that is, the space of serenity that does not have its own nature but shines only as an object.

This concept is reflected in the space for bath and meditation, and it emphasizes the power and atmosphere of an empty space.

Milmila Yoga Center
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Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim

Homogenizes nature and objects, and becomes a lyrical space where the boundary between consciousness and unconsciousness creates an intersection of thought.


Milmila Yoga Center
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Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim
Milmila Yoga Center
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Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim


Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim
Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim
Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim
Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim
Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim
Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim
Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim
Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim
Milmila Yoga Center
© Jae-yoon Kim


Milmila Yoga Center
First Basement Floor Plan
Milmila Yoga Center
Ground Floor Plan

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