Schemata Architects embraces rough material finishes for gallery in Seoul
The rough finishes of an existing concrete and brick structure are contrasted by white exhibition spaces at Arario Gallery in Seoul, completed by Japanese studio Schemata Architects.
The gallery is located at the rear of the Space Group Building, a modernist icon in South Korea that houses the Arario Museum.
Designed by architect Kim Swoo-geun, the grey-brick, heritage-listed building was completed in the 1970s and converted into the museum in 2014.
Arario Gallery sits alongside the grey-brick Space Group Building
Alongside this building is a glazed extension from the 1990s by architect Jang Se-yang, a student of Swoo-geun, as well as a traditional South Korean home, or hanok, which was relocated to the site when it reopened in 2014.
Amid this architectural backdrop is a brick and concrete structure added to the site in the 1980s, which Schemata Architects was tasked with converting into the Arario Gallery. "It was a great challenge for me, a Japanese architect, to work on the third building ? excluding the hanok ? especially after seeing the perfect contrast between the two buildings already created by the master and the disciple," said Schemata Architects Principal Jo Nagasaka.
The gallery spaces are contained in white rooms
Looking to create a space that "looks unchanged on the outside", the studio retained the building's structural frame and dark brickwork, originally chosen to complement the Space Group Building.
"In this context, we thought th...
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