Projects / Office / News / Publications / Info All / Culture / Commercial / Housing / Institutional / Planning / Exposed / Research 2013 CAPIThetical / The Competition / Opera Busan / Park Taichung / Space Invader / 2010 Pump Up Housing / Solar Decathlon / Feed Forward / Jesús del Pozo / AC 2.0 / Urban Space Station / Mutant Bridges / Pumped Up Corner / Housing Carabanchel / Civil Registry / Mixed use Zaragoza / MAD Prosecution / Music School / House Murakami / birdSlab / Barceló / Filipiniana / EEE (hr) / Closure Cinema School / AZCA / Test Madrid / Europan ´05 / Housing Orcasitas / Spanische Spione / City Display / AAAEE 2 / Housing Atocha / Mies / Expo Vigilada II / Europan ´03 / ShinyFlatSmooth / AAAEE 1 / Speed Wall / Kids daycare / BioLabs / 2000 Hotel Proforma / Festimad / Cacharros / Roundabouts / The Chase / Dead / Spy House / Battlefield Shopping / Volareee / Juvenalia / Athens / VP Leganés / El Prado / Z1 What does it mean to design an Opera Theater in Korea? Is it a building type that can be exported without a critical concern for its use, its workings, adaptability or type?If an opera theater is a finely-tuned instrument for a very specific kind of performance, this building had to resonate as well with the city and the port, helping them to connect to each other and putting them to work in a coordinated wayAt a moment in which the operatic space and the technology that supports it seem frozen in time, our building strives to get ahead of the future needs of performing space and imagine all the alternatives that its location and public nature can facilitateThus, its central space can change from an Opera Theater…To a large Exhibition Hall…Commercial or Trade Fairs programmable space…Fashion shows and catwalk…A structure which is the size of the building (and other port structures) allows for the opening of the central void in a relatively easy and economic wayThis void relates with the rest of the city, the port and the sea, becoming a new urban space, an intensely-used elevated plazaIts size and shape relates it equally with the city and with the Busan port, one of the world’s largest, and its environment made up of containers, cranes and ships