White Block Gallery
The White Block Gallery is an exhibition and cultural space at the heart of the Heyri Art Valley in South Korea. A matrix of 3 solid gallery volumes carefully positioned creates 7 additional interstitial galleries in a compact but open ended configuration. The spaces have a wide variety of proportions and lighting conditions well suited to a variety of artworks while their abstraction allows curators to accommodate for new future forms of art and media. Integration with the landscape of the prominent lake-front site is also of crucial importance: The result places the intense and controlled experience of art side-by-side with informal social and landscape interactions. Passive heating and ventilation are integrated into the art house’s high efficiency environmental systems and runoff control measures become part of the spatial experience of art.
Credits
Architect:
Jinhee Park AIA + John Hong AIA LEED AP, SsD
Architect of Record:
Dyne Architecture
Seoul, Korea
Structural Design:
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Matt Johnson (associate principal)
Waltham, MA
Structural Engineer
: New Engineering
Seoul, Korea
Lighting Consultant:
Project Concept K
Seoul, Korea
Size: 1500 sq meters
date: 2011
awards: AIANE Design Award, AIA/BSA Honor Award, American Architecture Award
