Boundless Museum

Great art elicits a ‘wow’ within us. It is a visceral feeling, a light, a sound—a memory that changes us. The best museums are often not remembered for their architecture, but for the experiences they make possible.
Suh Architects was invited to interpret the future of Korea’s largest, oldest modern art museum, as part of an exhibit in 2016 entitled ‘As the Moon Waxes and Wanes MMCA Gwacheon, 30 Years’.
We began by erasing built boundaries. We asked where we would find art and how it would find us. By lifting topographic coordinates at regular intervals, we created a new site where there was no distinction between building and landscape, between now and then. We built models and undid them. We found ourselves left with a moving image of the art and the people they were communicating to—a field of experiences where art is lost and found.