Interior Design: 1st Place

The request from the Korean Assembly was to make a conference room with up-to-date equipment that would show simultaneously Korea’s advanced information technology and the country’s traditional sense of beauty. Therefore, the most significant issue for the designer was to interpret and express traditional aesthetics harmonized with technology. At the same time, it was important to symbolize the essential meaning of the Korean Assembly through a physical environment. The design solution symbolizes the space as a venue for making national decisions and to create a form inspired by one of the strongest traditional inventions of their predecessors: the first Korean sundial (Ang-bu-il-gu, 1434, by Young-sil Jang), the first exactly measured Korean map (Dae-dong-yeo-ji-do, 1861, by Jeong-ho Kim), and the first Korean map of the stars (Cheonsang-yeol-cha-bun-ya-ji-do, 1395, by Kun Kwen).