Sejong Central Operations Center and Storehouse
| Location: | Sejong, South Korea |
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| Status: | Built |
| Date: | 2024 |
| Local AOR: | Junglim |
Office Ou was awarded the contract to design both the central operations center (COC) and the central storehouse of the new National Museum Complex of Korea.
Initially, the COC was solely to be home to the the office spaces of the new National Museum Complex of Korea. Yet, due to its prominent location at the entrance of the museum complex, we believed that it could serve a much broader purpose, becoming a core part of visitors’ experience:
1) It is an orientation beacon for visitors arriving to the site, a place where people can plan their visit and learn about the history of the museum complex.
2) A connector that provides access between the office spaces, flexible event spaces, cafés and restaurants above grade, and the parking as well as storehouses below.
3) A flexible event space at grade, opening both onto the complex’ entry plaza and its central plaza, that can welcome a diverse range of changing exhibition (that may or may not be related to the individual identities of the complex’ many museums.)
The storehouse is home to both highly specialized conservation, preservation and storage spaces, and to flexible spaces that can change over the years as the exhibitions, collections and aims of the cultural institutions of the Museum Complex evolve.
