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The second of two wings designed for the ten-year-old country arts institution opened earlier this month. It’s the third structure on campus Ando designed in Gangwon province and coincides with the museum’s exhibition of his early youthful designs — a tourist attraction that was recently extended for another three months due to the massive popularity of the self-taught Pritzker Prize winner.
The goal of this design, Ando says, is to integrate nature into the user experience, integrating light into the interior spaces of the uninterrupted concrete-walled pavilion in a way reminiscent of the philosophies embodied in his 1989 book Church of Light.
It presents a departure from its 2019 domed predecessor, which emerges from the nearby grounds of the North Stone Garden, Light space The southernmost plot of land overlooking the museum’s sculpture garden is dominated. Visitors will experience the main enclosure, whose only source of light is a cross-hole cut into the ceiling, after entering through a high-walled angular corridor and a small triangular courtyard.
The museum says the new wing offers a contrast between the “gentle” nature of the first contemplative wing to create more balance programmatically on campus.
“I believe the museum is a light of hope (…) a place where people can obtain the ‘soul nutrients’ necessary to live a rich and fulfilling life,” Ando said. Art Newspaper earlier this summer.
exhibition, Tadao Ando: Youth, Open now until the end of October.