National Digital Heritage Museum

Our proposal is a building that performs as a “Spatial Instrument” to be “played” by the people running the institution of the National Museum, managers, curators, creatives, technologists, maintenance and operations personnel, and also its users.

A contemporary and technologically advanced tool that will develop contents but also that will adapt to future technological developments and changes in the exhibitions and other activities that will be held on the building. We consider that resilience over time and use are a basic tool of architecture. For that, the proposed building shows a high degree of flexibility in preparation of a future that might be, in a short time, very different from what we can project today- in a field as quickly evolving as Digitization.

The building is more than an exhibition space; it is also a place of creation and production of contents. In addition, the building is the re presentation of a new institution- the National Digital Heritage Centre that needs to communicate what is the past, the present and the future of the Republic of Korea. We have designed a very special media façade based on Upcycled mobile phones that the public will provide in a National level recycling campaign, in exchange of a ticket for the exhibitions. The project is based on recent studies on the current trends of reposition of mobile phones in South Korea. Around 14 million phones are replaced every year, over half ot that figure are kept in wardrobes or end up in recycling programs or bins.

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