The National Museum of World Writing Tells its Stories Through Architecture
The 16,424 sqm proposal for the National Museum of World Writing (NMWW) intends to create a mediation space which links “people to people, people to museum, and museum to the site, just as how writing & pages have bridged together the past, present, and future”.
The project is located in Incheon-si, South Korea, on the edge of a land between the central park and the condensed cityscape. The visual and spatial contradictions between the park’s horizontal landscape and monolithic verticality of buildings inspired the architects to develop a structure that merges both characteristics together.
Upon entering the museum, the visitor finds himself/herself standing in a grand hall deep within the museum’s curved walls, as though he/she has physically entered the journey of writing. Along the curved walls of the indoor exhibition space, sequential scenarios are printed, each with its own narrative.