Open Ground — nhdm architecture urbanism

Workshop Circle, with the Project Gallery on the mezzanine level and the new environment for Paik’s “TV Garden (1974)” at the background

Nam June Paik Art Center Renovation

Location

Nam June Paik Art Center, Yong-In, Korea

Client

Gyunggi Cultural Foundation

Status

Completed, June 2017

Program

Museum/Gallery, Cultural, Institution, Public Space

Size

10,500 SF

Team

Nahyun Hwang, David Eugin Moon, Justin Kollar, Claire Hacko

Collaborator

aLab Architecture (local architect of record)

Recognition

2018 AIANY Design Honor Award

New environment for Paik’s “TV GARDEN (1974)”

Nam June Paik Art Center renovation project reconfigures about 12,000 sf of the existing museum (more than one third of publicly accessible area) and provides the public with new ways to interpret, linger, exchange, and inhabit the institution. Symptomatic of large budget public cultural institutions erected in a rush under various political pressures, the vast shell devoid of interior articulation provides unusual opportunity to explore the idea of “building in building” and “figure in figure” and test the typological approach to appropriate the sites of institutional and bureaucratic conventions for more flexible and transformative public use.

“Open Ground,” the new entry floor of the museum is designed around three large-scale programmatic zones - WORKSHOP circle, floating PROJECT GALLERY, and the new environment for Paik’s “TV GARDEN (1974)”- with a strong figural presence and spatial characteristics, and aims to promote extended duration and accentuate the unexpected and multifarious ways that the public interacts with the art and its stories. Combined with supplementary mobile elements, the three buildings within the building also frame additional user amenities.

Access to the mezzanine Project Gallery

1. TV GARDEN
2. WORKSHOP
3. PROJECT GALLERY (MEZZANINE LEVEL)
4. VISITOR SEATING
5. ADDITIONAL DISPLAY
6. INFO AND TICKET
7. VISITOR LOCKERS
8. TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
9. ACCESS TO 2ND FL FLUX NJP PLAYROOM
10. EXISTING BUILDING SHELL

User amenity area under the Project Gallery

View from the PROJECT GALLERY

Workshop Circle, Details

View from the TV garden entrance with three figures

Workshop Circle

Photography

Nam June Paik Art Center

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Nam June Paik Art Center Renovation