Excerpt: Namdo Righteous Army History Museum, designed by I_architects and Hyunjejoo_Baukunst, embraces the nature of the place. The museum, located in the historical park, is not seen by topography and forests until visitors get off the parking lot and walk to the museum. The only exposed part of the museum is the kinetic Facade as a message carrier seen from the other side of the Yeongsan River.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] Place of metaphor _Righteous Army History Museum embraces the nature of the place
_Unexposed Museum
The museum, located in the historical park, is not seen by topography and forests until visitors get off the parking lot and walk to the museum. Since it is not revealed, it remains unchanged after 100 years. The spirit of the righteous army is not in the exterior of the museum, but in the trees, in the fields, in the wind, and the sky. The museum we suggest is stepping back from the things with a soul around them.
_Facade as a Carrier of Messages
The only exposed part of the museum is the kinetic Facade as a message carrier seen from the other side of the Yeongsan River. Normally, it acts as an awning to reduce the intensity of light, but it shakes when the wind blows and makes sounds that could show the museum’s presence from afar. It is just like ordinary people becoming righteous army opposed to the national crisis.
_Architectural space that embraces elements of nature
In order to become a place that contains the souls of the righteous army and their beliefs, it requires a length of flow as much as their weight and spatial sequence. When visitors get out of the car and go to the museum, they experience the elements of nature infused with the spirit of a righteous army and a dramatic architectural space that embraces them.
Sequence Scapes
01 Forest that covers the sky
Visitors have no reason to be busy.
They who get out of the car walk at a very slow pace along the path of the forest where cypress trees cover the sky.
02 Terrace of breeze
When you exit the cypress trees forest, you meet the field and the terrace overlooking the Yeongsan River. On the terrace, you can hear the flapping of flags swaying in the river breeze.
03 Memorial lounge with a drumbeat
When you enter the room from the terrace, you meet a memorial hall where an unknown tree stretches into the sky, and the sound of a very small drumbeat (wind chime) is heard every 5 minutes.
04 Exhibition space and exterior space with rock wall
If you go down the path with the slope of the exhibition space, there is an external exhibition space surrounded by rock walls.
The rock wall revealed by the demolition of the existing building is part of the exhibition space, and the landscape is reflected on the glass to integrate the interior and exterior spaces. Rock walls contrast with transparent glass.
05. Passage with light column
When you leave the exhibition space, there are three paths. The path to the Daya plain, the path to the upper terrace of wind, and the path to the exhibition space. The column is composed of gabion using recycled stones, and the floor is made of concrete and crushed stone.
06 Hidden memorial hall with a wind chime
If you follow the narrow corridor and turn around, you meet a low-light triangular space where you can hear the sound of the wind chime.
07 Convenience facility (f&b) space overlooking the Yeongsan River
Under the black concrete slab, there is an f&b space with a large window which could throw open as a terrace space with a view the Yeongsan River.
08 Wild flower garden
If you take the elevator up, you can enjoy the view of the Yeongsan River on the roof of the wild flower garden that overlaps with the surrounding landscape.
The people who use the accommodation can also access it on foot.
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