The shaping concept of the buildings for the Busan Opera House by PAPER | TOTEMENT is based on placing simple forms together with their capacities and location determined by their functional tasks. The outside shape of the achieved agglomerate is made by cutting off the surpluses to make a cube form put on its edge. The aesthetics of the given object depends neither on a separate turn of any of its parts nor on their size or quantity, but is defined by a lot of similar but different elements with its external shape of an ideal Platon body in an unusual twist. More images and architects’ description after the break.
A tremendous sign, a bright image, a new form, an extreme individuality, the main element of an urban cluster, a shape, absorbing plenty of concepts with the basic one of an idea of division without separation, merging of diverse – external and internal, elementary (the external cube-shape) and complicated (the internal structure of the building), reflective (texture of outside surfaces – metal sheet) and absorbing (the red color of the internal structure, drawing attention of an observer), horizontal and vertical lines having changed their location in space in the course of a new form creation game.
