Lithic Knot - Jeongok Prehistoric Museum

A bird's eye view of the museum.

The Building

Jeongokri is one of the most important Paleolithic sites in the world.

Lithic Knot is envisaged as a museum structure that is embedded into both the geology and landscape of the site.

The design of the museum focuses on the creation of a building fabric that articulates exhibition spaces while connecting scattered outdoor programs across the entire site.

The organization of the museum attempts to dissolve traditional boundaries by creating multiple points of connection around each outdoor program.

The museum thus emerges as a place for the interchange of people, experience and information.

The twisted 'figure-of-eight' structure of the museum is intended to evoke the crude 'post and lintel' architecture of the stone age albeit with modern systems of construction and materials.

View of the main exhibition space.

The Lithic Knot museum is organized around a Precipice Court to which all parts of the museum are directly connected.

Aside from being a rich visual spectacle the court allows visitors to experience a physical representation of the chronology of the Paleolithic era.

This large external space, enclosed on one side by the basalt precipice performs as the main public space for the entire museum site.

In the solid volumes of exhibition spaces, the visitors experience the chronology of the Paleolithic era in a linear fashion, whereas in the Precipice Court the entire geological history of the Jeongokri prehistoric site is experienced simultaneously by reading the layered seams of time in the stratified rock.

As visitors move through the sequence of museum exhibitions, the basalt precipice functions as a time datum orienting the visitors.

The use of carefully applied manifestations to the windows looking onto the court allows visitors to see the respective time lines projected onto the stratified face of the precipice.

In this way time presides over the whole museum.

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