3XN GXN team wins South Korea's Chungnam Art Center competition
By Josh Niland|
Monday, Jul 1, 2024
A team including 3XN GXN, SIAPLAN, and MDA will design the new Chungnam Art Center in South Korea following the results of an invited international competition.
What is being billed as the final "keystone" design of the new Chungnam Art Precinct will be created by 2029. It will feature a sloping roof plane folded into its diagonal axis and then arched at points to define the different programmatic functions below.
The project will be developed with a special focus on the "immediate context" of the site, which includes an art center, library, and art museum (the design of which UN Studio won in a separate competition in 2021).
3XN Australia partner and director Fred Holt says: "It’s a building that expresses movement, while reducing its perceived scale."
This is 3XN GXN's first project in South Korea after previously competing for an art storage facility and museum project in Seoul. The firm was also recently a finalist in the New Viking Ship Museum competition in Denmark and unveiled its design for another amphitheater-like cultural venue in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
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CC Chiang · Jul 01, 24 7:30 PM
Geez, these Scandivanian acronym are all pumping out similar concepts in the same style. These could've been Snohetta in Shanghai or Busan, or BIG in Prague.
Gary Garvin · Jul 02, 24 9:25 PM
It will feature a sloping roof plane folded into its diagonal axis and then arched at points to define the different programmatic functions below.
"It’s a building that expresses movement, while reducing its perceived scale."
Actually, there's some intelligence in this building. It accomplishes those things, with purpose, subtlety, and tact. And that seemingly floating roof has an expressive character that fits in well with the landscape (at least in the pix) and is appropriate for a cultural venue. The glass walls lift and enhance it. The varied ribbing is a nice touch that breaks the monotony of sheer glass walls and takes expression in another direction.
I wonder, however, how well the visible interior reflects and is integrated into that design. Hard to tell from the pix.
A lot of other stuff we see now, however, is gratuitous and banal.
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