Designs revealed for the new Korean American National Museum
by sadia_badhon | August 12, 2019 10:49 am
[1]Image courtesy Morphosis Architects
Plans have been revealed for the new Korean American National Museum in Los Angeles, California.
Designed by Morphosis Architects, [2]the museum supports the institution’s mission to preserve, study, and present Korean-American cultural heritage. The design of the building reflects this mission through landscape elements, spatial organization, and architectural forms symbolizing and exploring the Korean-American experience.
The museum follows the classic courtyard plan of the traditional Korean hanok (house), circling a central open space with an interconnected ring of galleries, meeting rooms, and offices.
The exterior is an abstracted solid concrete edge without scalar elements. The exterior wall is embossed with a pattern seen in royal palaces, and its interiors are defined by a sculptural ceiling-scape evoking the vaulted ceiling of a hanok.
Anchoring a prominent corner in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, the new orientation culminates in a triple-height gallery. This gallery is composed of two intersecting volumes, further referencing the continuing duality of Korean and American existence.
- [Image]: https://www.constructionspecifier.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Opener-10.jpg
- Morphosis Architects, : https://www.morphosis.com/https:/www.morphosis.com/
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