2024-05-16T21:46:43-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150414731/meier-partners-completes-sorol-art-museum-in-south-korea Josh Niland 2024-01-30T18:43:00-05:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f7/f7203ae95faa4e8c6dc4094a3df90ce8.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/meierpartners" target="_blank">Meier Partners</a> has shared news of the recent completion of its Sorol Art Museum design in Gangneung, South Korea. The 336,500-square-foot project is meant to provide space for an immersive dialogue between Korean artists and the outside world and is the firm&rsquo;s first completed work since its <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150270676/richard-meier-is-retiring-as-name-change-signals-firm-restructuring" target="_blank">2021 restructuring</a>.</p> <p>The building's internal structure is defined by a dual concept that arranges space into introverted and extroverted inter-dynamics based on the aesthetic theory of Korean Confucian philosophy. According to the architects, the external form utilizes the hillside&rsquo;s natural topography to present the art inside on a pedestal to visitors in a way that also establishes the connection between nature and architecture as another core tenet of their experiences.&nbsp;</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/62/620ebd54396a24222aeb032bfe15323a.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/62/620ebd54396a24222aeb032bfe15323a.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy Meier Partners/Yongbaek Lee</figcaption></figure><p>Curators will have the option of controlling the gradations of light sources, both natural and artificial, inside the large skylit main exhibition space and smaller galleries. In a proj...</p>