015 BUSAN OPERA
Entry for the Busan Opera House International Ideas Competition.
2012
FIRST PRIZE, Internatiional Competition
Cultural Quarter
Going to the Opera is an urban event that belongs to the city. The Opera House is both a landmark and a destination where people go to have a cultural experience. This project focus on creating a complex that is rooted in the city and refrains from becoming a mere object building.
The 19 th Century Opera house was conceived as an urban artefact seamlessly knitted into the fabric of the city. During the course of the 20 th Century there was a shift towards notion of an “Icon” building, vis-à-vis Sydney. This project proposes to mediate between these two notions creating a series of performance spaces that are clustered together in a cultural complex, a new urban paradigm.
The concept is to literally wrap the site with a public street which in turn becomes a programmatic wall housing the main performance functions. These pragmatic decisions create a series of by product spaces that are the public soul of Busan’s new cultural quarter.
Cultural Quarter
Going to the Opera is an urban event that belongs to the city. The Opera House is both a landmark and a destination where people go to have a cultural experience. This project focus on creating a complex that is rooted in the city and refrains from becoming a mere object building.
The 19 th Century Opera house was conceived as an urban artefact seamlessly knitted into the fabric of the city. During the course of the 20 th Century there was a shift towards notion of an “Icon” building, vis-à-vis Sydney. This project proposes to mediate between these two notions creating a series of performance spaces that are clustered together in a cultural complex, a new urban paradigm.
The concept is to literally wrap the site with a public street which in turn becomes a programmatic wall housing the main performance functions. These pragmatic decisions create a series of by product spaces that are the public soul of Busan’s new cultural quarter.
DATE
August 2011
STATUS
International Competition
First Prize Winner
PROGRAMME
Opera House
SITE
Busan, Korea
AREA
48,000 m2
TEAM
Peter W Ferretto, Young Rock Kim, Taeho Kim, Hyunsu Kim
August 2011
STATUS
International Competition
First Prize Winner
PROGRAMME
Opera House
SITE
Busan, Korea
AREA
48,000 m2
TEAM
Peter W Ferretto, Young Rock Kim, Taeho Kim, Hyunsu Kim