Busan Opera House Proposal / Pelletier de Fontenay

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The Busan Opera House proposal, by Pelletier de Fontenay, echoes a unique island condition. Here, they imagined an island experience where everything, from water to building, is in contrast with the usual city landscape. It resembles more abstract matter carved from underneath than a building. It stands there, anchored to the shore, like a century old wreckage, darkened by time, creating complex and unexpected relationships with the water, the island, the city and it’s inhabitants. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Islands have a special quality, that of being a world of their own. Their surrounded nature gives them both a feeling of intimacy and immensity. On one hand a feeling of seclusion, on the other a feeling of openness. The water becomes the threshold through which one can escape everyday life to engage oneself in an entirely different world.

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Cite: Alison Furuto. "Busan Opera House Proposal / Pelletier de Fontenay" 30 Aug 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/164394/busan-opera-house-proposal-pelletier-de-fontenay> ISSN 0719-8884

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