Nature-Technology-Space Theatre Pavilion | Asymptote Architecture

Daegu, South Korea welcomes a new Culture Multimedia Theater to enrich the city’s culture. The building stands out as a focal point against a stunning panorama. Its features attractiveness is achieved through a bold curved form, perched onto a peninsula anchored into the sea.

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The sea’s natural environment is influential of the vessel-shaped structure of the pavilion theatre. Somehow the structure is reminiscent of a ship anchored somewhere in-between land and water. Architecturally, the building is covered in silver pillows that function as its cladding system. These transparent segments create an ephemeral, transient and swift effect and there is a sequence of curved pillows and intersecting lines that form the geometrical mesh of the cladding.

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Visitors enter through the gallery space which is accommodated and concealed beneath an artificially formed landscape. Positioned atop namely that landscape is where the visible part of the whole building is. The silver cladding adds to the overall aesthetic experience as well: it reflects the beauty of the natural scene of sea and sky. The exterior of the building and its naturally lit backdrops have a contrasting aspect – the interior is defined as dark and hermetic and due to these atmospheric qualities, it is home to an immersive environment.

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The interior is a place illuminated only by projections the content of which is designed to re-interpret the surrounding environment’s qualities but in an abstract and conceptual way. In this way both the exterior and the interior offer two types of visitor experience – the first through realistic natural scenery such as sky, light and air; and the latter – through the creation of virtual realities that visitors to be drawn into.

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