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Completion:2008
Client: Gyongi Cultural Foundation, Suwon-Seoul, Korea
Use: design brief,development,schematic design, design development
Size: ca 5.500 m²
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NEW MUSEUM “NAM JUNE PAIK“, South Korea

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The work of Paik picks out the progress of becoming of seeing and perceiving in a game like manner as a central theme, flows the museum need a flexible exhibition space that allows for experimentation, the design accepts its context as a premise and changes at the same time the perception of the context, which is altered by its intervention. The NJP Museum infill the existing valleys of the Museums park by spanning a grided roof structure over them. The appropriated space below the roof, the “petrified topography” becomes the exhibition space of the museum. The tension between the Cartesian structure and the amorphous topography becomes the identity of the museum. The ideal of the “Matrix” regulates the various aspects of the museum such as the museum space, the roof structure allowing for the necessary serving and flexibility and the undulating floor –always relating to each other and creating not an object building rather a perfect instrument for exhibiting. Cut-outs in the roof create a relationship to the landscape and manifest the continuity of the topography from the inside to the outside and vice versa. Light or the careful manipulation of it for this media museum plays a very important role in articulating space with the main museum hall, indirect reflected and reflected light not only organises the space but also directs the visitors through the space. The NJP museum’s idea is born from the site and rooted in this particular park of Sumon. Its media art is directed to a dress the world the future through the ingenuity of Paiks view of the world.
The design of the NJP museum applies the same methodology of approach as did Nam June Paik in his work and aims to be an homage to the artist.

Project Description

The work of Paik thematizes the ongoing evolution and perception of our world in a gameful manner, necessitating a flexible museum exhibition space that allows for experimentation. The design accepts its context as a premise and at the same time changes the perception of the context, which is altered by its intervention .The NJP Museum fills in the existing valleys of the museum’s park by spanning a grid roof structure over them. The appropriated space below the roof - the “petrified topography” - becomes part of the exhibition space of the museum. The tension between the Cartesian structure and the amorphous topography contributes to the identity of the museum.

The ideal of the “matrix” regulates the various aspects of the museum such as the museum space, the roof structure and the undulating floor, allowing for the necessary functions and flexibility, always relating to each other and creating not an object building but a rather perfect instrument for exhibiting. Cut-outs in the roof create a relationship to the landscape and manifest the continuity of the topography from the inside to the outside and vice versa.
Light, or its careful manipulation, plays a very important role in articulating the space within the main museum hall: Indirect and reflected light not only organises the space but also directs the visitors through it.

The NJP museum’s idea is born from the site and rooted in the particular park landscape of Sumon. Its media art is directed to address the future through the ingenuity of Paik’s view of the world.