Seoul Photographic Art Museum

ENG / “Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

PAM is designed basically with three terms which are both common in architecture and photography; light, volume, shadow. The mass is perceived from boulevard with its large disintegrated volumes which also creates deep volumetric openness vertically and horizontally.
Museum is located between Seoul 50 Plus Start-up Campus and Robot Science Museum. Being aware of pedestrian flow on the boulevard, entrance plaza is designed largely to welcome and give a silent moment to public.

Date: November 2019
Type: Competition
Program: Museum, Cultural, Public
Size: 6300 m²
Client: Seoul Metropolitan Government
Partners: Hasan Sıtkı Gümüşsoy, Erhan Vural
Team: Tolga Derviş, Özgür Demirsöz, Şimal Avcı, Dania Sudi
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Demand: A dense program is defined for the Seoul Photographic Art Museum. Program spaces have different plan sizes and heights. Each program is represented by an individual volume, which will be stacked and organized to become the museum.