
PROGRAM : OPERA HOUSE
LOCATION : BUSAN, KOREA
SIZE : 34,928 ㎡
YEAR : 2011
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This project is started from the critique on the formation of artificial land on the sea. When people reclaim land from the sea, they take earth from other place and pile them up, but the proposed building takes a reversed strategy to erode away the volume of the site on the contrary to the way they build up the artificial land. There are two main accesses from the bridges connecting the site to the land. Like wind erodes earth or stone by making its own wind way, two main accesses cross each other to make a network and main circulation on the site, and then the site starts to be eroded from the boundary by its force.
The volume extruded from the erosion line is encroached on its bottom and upside making public space and shoreline promenade, which provides visitors with open views toward the sea and city. The erosion process continues inside the volume to enable the sunlight get in and make a linkage between the programs which are distributed inside and outside. Two main concert halls facing the sea are also formed by the process of erosion like the tide of the sea floods toward the land. Natural erosion is always ongoing process by weathering and living organisms in the natural environment. The artificial erosion tactics also process continuously with the change of time and climate.
This project is started from the critique on the formation of artificial land on the sea. When people reclaim land from the sea, they take earth from other place and pile them up, but the proposed building takes a reversed strategy to erode away the volume of the site on the contrary to the way they build up the artificial land. There are two main accesses from the bridges connecting the site to the land. Like wind erodes earth or stone by making its own wind way, two main accesses cross each other to make a network and main circulation on the site, and then the site starts to be eroded from the boundary by its force.
The volume extruded from the erosion line is encroached on its bottom and upside making public space and shoreline promenade, which provides visitors with open views toward the sea and city. The erosion process continues inside the volume to enable the sunlight get in and make a linkage between the programs which are distributed inside and outside. Two main concert halls facing the sea are also formed by the process of erosion like the tide of the sea floods toward the land. Natural erosion is always ongoing process by weathering and living organisms in the natural environment. The artificial erosion tactics also process continuously with the change of time and climate.
















