ROK Navy Museum / G.Lab*
G.Lab*, a department of Gansam Partners in Seoul, was awarded first prize for their design of a Navy Museum in Korea. The design reflects “the turbulent history of the Korean Navy and the unwavering spirit of the men and women who serve this branch.” Inspired by the unpredictability of the ocean, G.Lab*’s form for the museum is an undulating mass that folds. On the interior, the volume creates a circulation path which weaves and intersects in multiple spaces.
More images and more about the museum after the break.
The museum leads visitors through several exhibition halls before they are revealed to an observation deck, overlooking the ROK Patrol Boat Chamsuri 357, (the boat that a North Korean patrol boat surprise attacked on June 29, 2002). Since the incident happened in the midst of the 2002 World Cup, the deaths of the 6 seamen aboard the Chamsuri 357 and the 18 wounded did not garner much media coverage. G.Lab* decided to memorialize this event and to externalize it.
“The design immortalizes the brave crew members by taking on the image of the ocean waves- the only witness to the battle. The Patrol Boat is oriented facing the North and inland, the memorial placed behind it, followed by the Sea. The memorial is an eternal wave propelling the patrol boat onward to the North, allowing the Chamsuri 357 to continue the fight which had come to her. The Memorial and supporting landscape design act to simulate an environment in which the Patrol Boat is still Sea-worthy and engaged in battle,” explained the architects.
ROK Navy Memorial Museum
Architect: G.Lab* by Gansam Partners
Location: Pyongtaek, South Korea
Client: Republic of Korea Navy
Project Architect: Chuloh Jung
Design team: Youn-Sook Hwang, Sang-Hyun Son, Kyung-Mi Ahn, Namjoo Kim.
Project area: 11,000 sqm
Competition Year: 2009
Construction Year: 2010
Status: Construction Document Phase
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very simple
so cool
very korean
Very ZAHA
Navy museum or spacecraft
‘The design reflects “the turbulent history of the Korean Navy and the unwavering spirit of the men and women who serve this branch.”’
exactly what i thought when i looked at it.
never very convincing these things are they?
Hi,
I am student in architecture and i’am designing a projet right now with a skin quit similar to this projet. (holes of the same size).
Can anyone tell me how it work? its like a big concrete wall with special windows? anyone got detail of this kind of stuff? ^^
thx
not only the design but the presentations and drawings are influenced by Zaha Hadid
very very
yes this is like zaha but i like that this sort of amorphous shape is catching on
Starcraft popularity has hit Korean architecture
prety good
cliche.
blah blah zaha, blah blah extruded blocks.
it looks more like a mental asylum for sailors.
reminds me of delugan meissl’s porsche museum…which i like, but there are a few too many dead dog spaces in my opinion, including what looks like a rather dark and depressing entry sequence with the cantilevered building volume floating above the always in shade visitors below.