这家博物馆前身是由韩国近代建筑师金寿根（Kim Swoo-geun）设计的Space建筑事务所。这座建筑于1971年至1977年韩国属于军政府时期建立，在室内外都运用了砖块这一韩国普遍的建筑材料来建造，探索了韩国近代建筑的特征。他的徒弟张世阳（ Jang Se-yang）于 1997 年在该建筑旁建造了一座开放式玻璃建筑，作为新时代的象征，形成了强烈的对比，为该地区的历史画上了浓墨重彩的一笔。2014年，该地区重新建造了一栋传统韩屋，建筑事务所也被改造成了博物馆，而玻璃建筑则被改造成了餐厅。

Kim Swoo-geun’s masterpiece “Space,” a building designed between 1971 and 1977 during South Korea’s military dictatorship, explores the identity of Korean architecture by using bricks both inside and outside, a common building material in the country. Next to the building, Jang Se-yang, one of his disciples, built an open-plan glazed building in 1997 as a symbol of a new era, creating a strong contrast and marking the area’s history. In 2014, a traditional Korean hanok was relocated to the site, and the brick building was converted to a museum, while the glass building was converted to a restaurant.

▼建筑概览，building overview © Yongjoon Choi

除此之外，场地上还有一栋钢筋混凝土和砖块建造的建筑。这一次，客户要求建筑师将其改造成一个美术馆。巧合的是，当space大楼于2014年刚刚被改造成Arario博物馆时，建筑师首次来韩国时就参观过该博物馆。这栋建筑在玻璃建筑建造之前建成。建筑师不受任何限制地自由设计了这座建筑，并提交了建筑许可证。然而，他们被告知外墙必须使用相同颜色的砖块，因为这里是历史街区，而金瑞根的杰作就矗立在大楼旁边。

“我依然记得当时被以人为尺度的空间和舒适度而震撼，但是我从没有想象过有一天我也会参与进这个项目。但是你无法预计未来的事情，巧合就这样发生了。我非常感激能获得这一机会，但这对于我，一个日本建筑师来说，也是一个巨大的挑战；特别是在看到师徒二人已经建造的两座建筑之间的完美对比之后，决定着手建造第三座建筑（不包括韩屋）。” ——Jo Nagasaka 建筑师

Another reinforced concrete and brick building stood behind the buildings on the same site. This time, the client asked us to convert it into a gallery. Coincidentally, we visited this museum on our first visit to Korea in 2014, immediately after the building changed to the Arario Museum.I learned that this building had been completed before the glass building was built. The architects had designed the building freely without any restrictions and submitted for a building permit. However, they were instructed to use the same color bricks for the exterior walls because it was a historic district, and Kim Swoo-geun’s masterpiece stood next to the building.

‘I remember how impressed I was with the human-scale space and the comfort I felt then, but I had never imagined that I would be involved in this project. But you never know. Such coincidences do happen sometimes. While I was very grateful, it was a great challenge for me, a Japanese architect, to work on the third building (excluding the hanok), especially after seeing the perfect contrast between the two buildings already created by the master and the disciple.’ ——Jo Nagasaka, architect

▼建筑周围环境，building surroundings © Yongjoon Choi

在这种情况下，设计师认为在景观中再插入一个独特的景观是不合适的，因此决定用砖块来重新组织韩屋建成后仍然杂乱无章的场地外观，保留金寿根用砖块创造的世界观，并为整个场地设置一个背景。设计希望不改变建筑的外观，但当你走近时，你可以感受到它与其他两栋建筑的不同，当你进入其中时，你可以体验一系列难忘的事件。为了达到这一目的，建筑师决定在原有的砖-混凝土结构中插入“白色立方体”，并且使用各种白色材料使参观者们进入空间时感受到不同的白色。同时，起初建筑师决定拆除五层的VIP室的所有的墙，使空间向四周打开，来形成了一个独特的序列，并与外立面的黑砖形成了鲜明的对比，从远处看建筑也不会显露出白色的细微差别。

In this context, we thought that inserting another unique feature into the landscape would not be appropriate and decided to use bricks to reorganize the exterior of the site that remained unorganized after the construction of the hanok, preserve Kim Swoo-geun’s worldview created with his bricks, and set a backdrop for the entire site. We also wanted to create a building that looks unchanged on the outside but feels different from the other two as one approaches it, enters, and experiences a memorable sequence of events there. To this end, we decided to insert a “white cube” into the existing brick-and-concrete skeleton and used all types of white materials to let visitors feel many different whites as they go inside and approach them. At the same time, we initially planned to remove all the walls in the VIP room on the fifth floor to open it up on all four sides, thereby creating a unique sequence and a significant contrast with the black bricks on the exterior facades, without revealing subtle differences in white when the building is seen from a distance.

▼建筑入口，entrance © Yongjoon Choi