Competition

International competition for National Museum

Complex Master Plan of Administrative City, Korea

Concept of Planning and Connecting with surroundings

Taking into consideration the planning of Sejong City and the city’s current street network in general and the project’s location specifically, we proposed a new axis for development and improvement the surrounding street networks, to complement and continuation of movement in a way that is compatible with the planning and street networking as follows:
Road (3): The continuance of the street parallel to the Geum River that is vital for sustaining movement and connecting the outside of the city to the National Museum site, where it crosses the Historical Park by using a bridge in the beginning of the crossroad in the park’s west. It crosses the Park and maintains the trees and nature in the place, and continues over Che Creek. Then it connects with the street parallel to Geum River to continue the movement in the eastern direction of the city, and this street form the Southern border of the project.
Road (4): The continuance of the northern axis, adjacent to Art High School, with its deviation towards the west of the site, so it would be parallel to Che Creek. And this road form the western border for the project’s location till it crosses Road (3). 
Road (1): Extend the road parallel to Art Center till we reach Road (4).
Road (2): Extend the axis and the road, to make it an extension of Urban Atrium and Symbol Square. And it crosses Road (4) to links with The Central Park, which makes this road the northern border for the project’s location. With this suggestion of road mapping we achieved the following:  Linking the project site with its surroundings. Flexibility in reaching the National Museum. Flexibility with the number of entrances that lead into the museum that is in concordance with the phased development plan.  Preserving the largest site area possible without interruption from the public roads, which gives the maximum connection between the parts of the National Museum. The good relation with the National Arboretum and Central Park.

Design Concepts

Form and Geometric: Looking at the Cultural projects that surround the site location which is make the Circular Culture Belt, our design and composition came up to join the central and radial form of the National Museum, where the center from Ellipsoid (Sphere + Ellipse).
The museums are spread in a radial form, going out from the center. And the project slit from bridge for pedestrian from the north till the south, and it helps the continuity of pedestrian traffic from Urban Symbol Square north till it reaches The Gemn River south, and it goes through the museums that are in the National Museum.
Concept of Layout design: Drive from the abstract of simple lines which used in the Korean Flag, which is Koreas -in extension the National Museums - symbol and identity, and join that lines with the central and radial form.
Museum Location Concept: The define of the identity for each building that makes the Culture Belt around the project , the suggestion is to spread the museums in a way in which each building is across from the one closest to it in function. The museums should be raised by steps from the top down the more we are further from the center. And all the museums will have a rotation of mass and glass front in the direction across the surrounding buildings to strengthen the contact between them.
Additional Comforts and Amenities for the complex: There is a suggestion of making a shopping center and a group of restaurants and cafes in the southern part that is near the river and the museum simultaneously. In addition a Hotel above this podium. And these functions are to serve the National Museum.

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