Hangil Book House

View of the Book House in the Heyri Art Valley

The Building

SHoP Architects were commissioned in fall 2001 to design a building in the Heyri Art Valley - one hour north of Seoul, South Korea in the city of Paju.

Located at the base of one of the six hills defining the Art Park is the Hangil Book Hall for Hangil Publishing, a premier publisher of art and philosophy books in Korea.

A warping fabric of wood culminating at the roof creates a connect between the book house and its natural surroundings

The Art Park is interlaced with roads and paths, which weave the disparate sections of the complex into a natural whole. The path thus becomes an important extension of the landscape and blends the experience of the architecture into its natural surrounding.

Conceived as a built landscape itself, the Book House is divided into two distinct zones: a vertical bar connected to the outdoor reading space on the hillside and a large hall housing mixed use programs, namely a restaurant, performance and exhibition spaces and a large plaza.

Hangil Book House - Floor Plan [opens in a popup window - 56KB image]

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