White Block Gallery
White Block Gallery
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YEAR
2011
LOCATION
Seoul, South Korea
CATEGORY
cultural › cultural center gallery museum
The White Block Gallery is a 1500 square meter exhibition and cultural space at the heart of the Heyri Art Valley in South Korea.
A matrix of 3 solid gallery volumes carefully positioned creates 7 additional galleries in a compact but open ended configuration.
Designed to showcase global contemporary art from super sized sculpture and paintings to multi-media installations. the spaces are unique in proportion and lighting allowing curators to accommodate new future forms of art and media.
.the spaces are unique in proportion and lighting allowing curators to accommodate new future forms of art and media.
Integration with the landscape of the prominent lake-front site is also of crucial importance: The result places the intense and controlled experience of art side-by-side with informal social and landscape interactions.
Passive heating and ventilation are integrated into the art house’s high efficiency environmental systems and runoff control measures become part of the spatial experience of art.
