"The calling of a place"
ㄴ Subjective Exploration of SSM Museum
Calling, 소명 (召命)
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The call of God to do God's work
To understand the prima facie showing of a place. To understand the duty and duty of heaven. That was the attitude I should have taken when I faced the place. Until now, the city had been expanded indiscriminately, and armed castles had dyed the ground black.
When architecture that ignores all the various characteristics of a place enters, the place cannot emit the light it must express. The place where the black shadow hangs is too dark to remain in the corner of people's heads, and the place loses its own meaning. However, if architecture is properly placed on the ground, architecture gathers various attributes together and sends them to humans in a message.
What I have to do is read and understand it. In this regard, I would like to introduce the Nishikomon Museum of History.
Seosomun Shrine
History Museum
Purpose : Cultural and assembly Facilities (Museum)
Location : Seoul, Jung-gu, Uijuro 2, 16-4
Design : Wu Jun Seung, Lee Gyu Sang, Yun Seung Hyun
"An intersection outside Seosomun, a confined area"
Back in time, this place is the execution site of the Joseon Dynasty and the holy place where Catholic persecution occurred. It was a place of resistance that was contrary to the violence of power and the narrowness of the times, but it was a place where historical values were overlooked and neglected.
With such a time of suffering, opportunities to shine outside the world are created.The "Seosomun Museum of History" is now located.
“Peace on Ground, Remembrance on Underground”
In contrast to the surrounding high-rise buildings, the "Seosomun Museum of History" is laid low on a large site. Thanks to this, most of the greed and desires in the building seemed to be restrained and could concentrate on the original function of the building.
It is unique that there is a park for rest on the ground and a museum for memorial service on the ground. This is probably because the wounds and memorials that occurred on the ground permeated under the ground.
The biggest core of the building was the relationship between ground and underground, that is, ground and underground.
According to architect Yoon Seung-hyun, "The top and bottom of the earth should be united together," adding, "Parks with terrestrial history and underground history museums based on them are inseparable, and we used the conversion of time into space flows."
Therefore, most of the movement inside the building is not a staircase, but a ramp. To go down slowly to the deep underground.
Circulation
#1 SSM History Park
It is a park that contains the "historicality" of the saddest gate in Seoul, Seosomun Gate.
While the majority of the surrounding buildings are high-rise buildings in the internationalist style, Seosomun Historical Park is laid calmly and low.
The first ramp
The first ramp connecting Nishikomon Historical Park and Light Square.
The left side of the slope is finished with bricks and the right side with exposed concrete.
Right-hand exposed Concrete
When you think of exposed concrete, it's different from the image that comes to mind,
EXPOSED CONCRETE HAVING VERTICAL LINE.
It seems that it cannot be made with a general mold, so I looked into it later and found out that it used a civil engineering mold instead of a general mold, and later grated it on a grinder to make a vertical line.
The longer the slope is passed, the longer the length of the vertical line becomes.
deepen.
Isn't this vertical line a device that connects the existence of the ground and the underground?
#2 A light square
As the name suggests, the first square, the Light Square, is located in the position where light comes in best.
Since it is the first square in the museum, it shows the character of the museum well.
#3 Chaple Space
A shrine commemorating the statue of a saint
The second ramp
INCLINED PATH FOR ENTRY INTO CONSOLATION HOLE
It was a space where the feeling of shrinking was maximized.
I miss the light because I've been underground for a long time.
He would soon leave the door following a faint light.
#4 A sky square
When you exit the door, the ceiling suddenly opens and a square with the sky in it appears. You will naturally look up to the overwhelming scale.
The blue sky they saw just before the execution.
When you bow again, you encounter a channel of light that divides the floor into two. Next to the channel is a timber object meaning martyrs. I start thinking about objects, channels, and relationships with me.
Walk along the channel to reach the starting point of light, the Consolation Hall. I can finally understand.
Light came down vertically as if it meant absolute existence, and flowed horizontally along the channel as it approached the land where humans lived.
To comfort their pain.
#5 Consolation Hall
Light coming down vertically from above
and a space characterized by horizontally flowing light
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