SASAEK - HORIZONS

The French architect Franklin Azzi is the 3rd place winner of the International Competition for National Museum of Korean Literature in Seoul.

Sasaek is imagined as a welcoming, flexible and harmonious place, unified with the vegetation, the rock, water and mountains. It is a ‘continuum’, a bridge between time and space, nature and literature.

The National Museum of Korean Literature is inviting the visitors on a voyage through the garden of four seasons and shared ideas. Its planted roof forms a footbridge on a hiking trail, linking mountainside and valley. Tucked into the slope of the mountain and reflected in the mirror of water at the centre of its internal courtyard, the museum melts into a site propitious to strolling, contemplation and reflection.

Our ambition is to create a museum ‘capable’ of ensuring its primary roles (collecting, conserving, restoring) and to fulfill its vocation of relating the individual to the collective while contributing to the enhancement of a shared heritage and knowledge for all.

Sasaek works as a museum–footbridge, at one with literature, history, architecture and nature.

Franklin Azzi Architecture - Retmus architects, consultant & local partner 

Architizer A+ Awards 2022, winner for the Unbuilt Cultural category