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Korean Film Archive

Westminster

Project Details

£20,000 to £49,999

Practice

JAIA Architects

JAIA Architects, 5 & 6 Stockwell Studios , 31 Jeffreys Road , London , SW4 6QU , United Kingdom

KCC Film Archive is an interior design project which looked at transforming the basement of the Korean Cultural Centre, located in Strand, London. The KCC had a basement with limited use and the brief was to create a Korean Film Archive including digital contents within the basement. JAIA Architects proposed polycarbonate panels to the walls which had sliding back lit panels to create an effect that the space was expanding. As a result of this JAIA Architects recieved the winner’s prize at the Surface Design Awards 2013 in public building Interior category for the innovative design. 12 sliding panels, each holding a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, represent information panels demonstrating the effect of ‘scanning’ and ‘displaying’. The polycarbonate cladding to the existing walls, together with the sliding/ folding static panels, firmly define and establish the space of the Film Archive within the open plan floor.