*세월호 희생자를 위한 304개의 대나무로 이루어진 파빌리온 [ Wise Architecture ] bamboo temple

세월호 희생자를 추모하는 304개의 대나무로 파빌리온 구축. 여기서 304의 숫자는 희생자 수를 의미함. 지리산 실상사, 경내 한켜에 자리. 와이즈 건축에서 작업. 14년 8월 30일부터 시작된 천일기도를 위한 장소로 건축.

의미심장한 장소에, 의미심장한 목적을 위한 최소한의 건축. 주변환경을 거스르지 않는 (자연과 함께한 기존 사찰을 거스르지 않는, 풀밭 위에 널부러져 있는 크고 작은 돌들-창건 당시의 잔해물-과 함께하는 배치) 지속성을 가진 임시구조물.

총 15미터 길이의 박공지붕 형태는 총 3개의 섹션으로 구성. 양 끝단에서 중심으로 갈수록 대나무 간격이 촘촘해지며, 가운데 기도실의 적당한 공간을 확보. 앞서 말한 것과 같이 304개 대나무는 희생자를 의미, 삶과 죽음의 경계를 은유적으로 표현하는 동시에 안과 밖의 경계를 구분짓는 실질적인 건축적 어휘로써 대나무 사용.

이번 프로젝트에서 건축의 생김새는 중요하지 않다. 건축이 할 수 있는 최소한의 양심을 볼 수 있는 기회인 것만으로도 만족한다.

reviewed by SJ,오사

Each of the 304 ribs of bamboo that make up this Buddhist temple represent a victim killed when a ferry sank off the coast of South Korea.

---

Architects: Wise Architecture
Install team: Sanha Lee
Lighting installation: Sang-soo Ahn and Mid-eum Shin

The prayer hall is dedicated to victims of the Sewol Ferry which sunk last year, killing 304 passengers including 250 pupils from one high school.
The temporary shrine – called Silsangsa Temple – was designed by Seoul-based studio Wise Architecture and is situated in a field in Jeollabuk-do, a province in the south-west of the country bordering the stretch of coastline where the boat sank.
The long pitched-roof structure made from a combination of bamboo and steel poles is intended to be used as a prayer site for 1,000 days from 30 August 2014, "to remember the Sewol Ferry tragedy and recover value of life and community".
"Silsangsa Temple prayer house is a bamboo house for 304 victims of the Sewol Ferry, which sunk in Jindo Sea, south sea of Korea, on 16 April 2014," said the architects.
The vessel's captain – who was captured on video abandoning the ship – was convicted of gross negligence at a hearing last year, but later found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Fourteen crew members received lighter sentences for their role in the catastrophe, including failure to evacuate passengers.
A protest in the country's capital, Seoul, over the South Korean government's handling of the disaster turned violent earlier this month when demonstrators clashed with police.
Supported by the steel poles, the simple 15-metre-long structure by Wise Architecture is divided into three sections, with the bamboo screen walls and roof partially sheltering dirt-floor entrances at either end.
The middle segment has a bamboo floor for worshippers to kneel on and a denser roof structure.
Whole, cylindrical stems create the structure's walls and lengths of bamboo have been split lengthwise to form the roof.
"The prayer house is simply constructed with bamboo," said the studio. "The 304 ribs of bamboo that represent victims became a screen that divide interior and exterior."
"The scenery of the wooden shrine site alters through the repetitive bamboos, which are running in the same direction as the temple layout, turning the interior space into a meditative area," explained the designers.
The prayer house faces an existing pagoda, while large stones litter the grassy landscape around the wooden pavilion – some of which date to a temple destroyed during the Koryŏ Dynasty between 918–1392.
Silsangsa Temple was constructed on top of the foundations of this original shrine. Torches dotted between the boulders light the approach to the temple.

from  dezeen