The design for the Busan Opera House by IaN+ aims to define a plurality of relationships between different cultures, and, at the same time, to reflect on the value of the Opera House within the contemporary city. The result is a symbolic place representing the city of Busan, not through an icon, but through the image of the city itself which reflects and resolves, becoming thus a meeting point of urbanity and nature. The Opera House embodies the very idea of a public place: a place for cultural and social meeting and sharing. To observe this building means to observe the city, the nature surrounding it, the image of a nation and a culture. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The traditional theatre, historically back to Greek theatre witch is in relationship with the landscape ( slope) or roman theatre , is inside the very center of the city, while modern Opera Houses are conceived as iconic elements set out of the dense urban fabric, like solitaire self-referent elements. We investigate the position in between the two: an urban object, whose independence from the city is negated through a strong geometry owning to the city structure, but, at the same time, an object as center of a new foundation.
