MUSEUM LIGHTING / JEONGOK NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, GYEONGGI-DO, KOREA 065
SKIN DEEP
Beneath the silver snakeskin of the Jeongok Prehistory Museum, 8’18” has provided the basis for a flexible lighting solution that helps bring the past to life.
The Jeongok Prehistory Museum sits among the curving landscape that was once home to Korea’s first inhabitants, ‘Jeongok man’. It’s easy to imagine the view has remained unchanged since those prehistoric days, and indeed the Museum itself encourages this conceit, with paths leading off to a series of recreated forests and river ecosystems - complete with replica huts of the region’s early settlements. Architect X-TU wanted their design to work around the contours of the landscape, while at the same time providing a strik- ing built identity for the new museum. Their successful proposal was for a shining silver skinned shape that meanders around the park’s two hills, lifting off the ground in places to form a bridge between their summits. The impression is one of a metal- lic snake – or perhaps a traditional Korean dragon - winding across the hillside. The tubular appearance of the exterior skin
actually conceals a much larger interior space. Sections of the hillsides have been carved out to create basement storage and service spaces and the loops of the outer wall create a series of spacious internal exhibition rooms. The white interior and silver exterior are thematically linked by a repeating pattern of circular holes and perforations that help reinforce the suggestion of a snakeskin texture. More than simple futuristic frip- pery, the patterns in both instances were introduced as a way of delivering the most impressive and flexible illumination effects. The solution is the result of a collaboration between X-TU and lighting designers 8’18”. The two had previously collaborated on a number of projects in their native France (Museum of Wine in Bordeaux and Forum des Images in Paris to name just two) and 8’18”s involvement so early in the process helped ensure aesthetic and lighting needs
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