Metropolitan Museum
The museum stands on the remains of Gyunghuingung Royal Palace: phisically it is constructed around interaction between the past and present, between an archeological site full of symbolic connotations and cutting-edge forms in a city which, not unlike other major Asian cities, is already hurtling into the future.
The project is based on transparency and lightness of image, radically reinventing the phisical support of a communication system that draws on all the latest multimedia technology.
The former premises, with their rigid layouts, are reinterpreted along much freer lines, a carefully gauged sense of disorder and smoothly flowing spaces in search of a continuum made of what are only apparently random signs, ranging from soft convexity and concavity, screens and diaphragms that make the museum layout full of unexpected turns, dilating and extending its interiors.
The various sections of the exhibition facility are all still clearly identifiable but the follow one each other in a smoothly enveloping way with no breaks.
The five themes of the museum are: history, life, art and culture, development and future of Seoul.
The incredibly detailed finishing materials, metal, wood, marble and glass, as well as industrial materials, emphasize the project’s numerous deliberately flaunted dis-calibrations, dislocations and conflicts.
Il museo, realizzato affianco alle rovine del Palazzo Reale di Gyunghuingung a Seoul, è costruito attorno all'interazione tra passato e presente, tra un sito archeologico pieno di connotazioni simboliche e un intervento contemporaneo.
Il layout del progetto precedente, pensato su una sequenza rigida di sale, è reinterpretato ed il sistema museologico viene costruito attorno ai diversi percorsi espositivi tematici in un continuum spaziale fluido scandito da partizioni e diaframmi.
Le varie sezioni dell'esposizione (storia, vita, arte e cultura, sviluppo e futuro della città di Seoul) sono articolati in altrettanti percorsi che si intrecciano e fornendo al visitatore una lettura del museo di volta in volta differente.
