We transformed the three contextual issues into three architectural themes which in combination generate a completely new kind of building which unites specific contextual ideas combined to a new and highly specific icon.

museum landscape

The landscape provides the public museum circulation where the boundaries between inside and outside are blurred. The gentle slope allows a path that slowly reveals the view to the Hantan River and the adjoining mountain range.

view from visiting route twoards café

exhibition pits

The “pits” are the exhibition areas embedded in the ground to turn the excavation of prehistoric artifacts into a theme in the Jeongok Prehistory Museum and give the visitor an authentic impression of the scientific process.

view from central exhibition space

roof

The roof is the main architectural feature, inspired by the transparent, temporary covers over the excavation pits. The roof gives shelter to the actual museum, is structural and enables a column-free space with an unobstructed view.

view from West
 
 

combination of parts