Studio Heech is an architectural design practice based in Seoul, working across the field of architecture, industrial design, furniture and interactive performance installation with a focus on Public and cultural projects. Heech's work addresses unchanged fundamentals in architecture and cities with technology in our times. The studio won KIA award 2020(The building of the year) by Korean Institute of Architects and was shortlisted for Emerging Architects by Architectural Review 2023. Heechan has been selected as the artist for the Korean Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
We approach architecture as a time-based craft, shaped by climate, material resistance, and the way spaces are inhabited and remembered. Rather than treating design as a process of representation, we design through making: building prototypes, devices, and full-scale details to test how architecture performs before it becomes a building.
Our work often begins with what already exists. Through renovation and adaptive reuse, we negotiate between preservation and intervention, identifying what must remain, what can transform, and how new construction can coexist with inherited structures. We consider detail as a form of decision-making: ethical, spatial, and temporal.
Our projects are also grounded in an ongoing attempt to connect traditional craftsmanship with the technologies of our time, developed through close collaboration with artisans, engineers, artists, designers, and urban researchers. We believe architecture directly shapes both everyday life and the environment; therefore, sustainability is embedded from the earliest stages of each project, guiding decisions on what to preserve, what to build, and what can endure.
Alongside built projects, we develop experimental instruments that operate as architectural testbeds. These crafted machines allow us to sense and translate weather, perception, and ritual into spatial experience, expanding architectural practice beyond the limits of a single building type.
Studio Heech is aware of that the importance of our design, changing our lives and environment for the better. Every single building projects Heech designs has a sustainability integrated into it from the very beginning of the projects to the construction stages.
Award
2025 "Time for Trees" exhibited at the Korean Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
2024 Wallpaper*'s Architect's Directory 2024
2023 Architectural Review's Emerging Awards 2023 shortlisted
2022 'Young Artist Award' by Minster of Culture & Sports, South Korea
2021 Competition winner of Seoul Maru 2021
2020 KIA Award (The Best building of the Year 2020) by Korean Institute of Architects
2020 The Good Place Award-Sanyang Brewery by Minster of Culture & Sports
스튜디오 히치(Studio Heech)는 2018년 서울에서 설립되어 다양한 종류의 건축, 공간, 산업디자인, 디지털 인터렉션 분야에서 활동하고 있는 건축 디자인 스튜디오입니다. 히치의 건축작업들은 전통적인 만들기 기법(traditional craftsmanship)과 우리시대의 기술(technology in our times)을 결합하는 오랜 시도들로 연결되며, 다양한 분야의 장인, 엔지니어, 예술가, 디자이너들, 도시연구자들과의 협업의 결과물들입니다. 히치는 건축 공간과 장소의 창조가 우리 삶과 지구환경에 직접적인 영향을 미친다고 믿으며, 히치의 건축 디자인 작업들은 초기단계부터 지속가능성 (Sustainability)을 염두에 두고 진행 됩니다. 산양양조장으로 2020년 한국건축가협회상과 대한민국 공간문화대상 우수상을 수상하였습니다.
스튜디오 히치의 설집자 박희찬은 2022년 문화체육관광부가 수여하는 '오늘의 젊은 예술가상'을 수상하였고, 2023년 국립현대미술관 '젊은 모색, 미술관을 위한 주석' 전시에 초대되어 '리추얼머신' 작품을 전시하였습니다. 2023년 영국 Architectural Review의 Emerging Awards 후보에 올랐으며, 2025년 베니스 비에날레 한국관의 작가로 선정되었습니다.
Studio Heech
스튜디오히치
(주)건축사사무소 스튜디오히치
Award
2025 베니스 비에날레 한국관 작가
2024 Wallpaper의 Architects' Directory에 선정
2024 2024 서울대학교 중앙도서관 본관(62동) SNU Commons 공간 조성공사 설계공모 2등
2023 Architectural Review의 이머징 아키텍트 후보
2022 '오늘의 젊은예술가상', 문화체육부장관 표창
2021 서울마루 2021 '공공개입'_서울어반핀볼머신' 당선
2020 한국건축가협회상_산양양조장
2020 대한민국 공간문화대상 우수상_산양양조장
