A Winding Concrete Gallery for Digital Art Is Planned for a Daegu Park

A winding concrete gallery built for digital art is planned for a park in Daegu, South Korea. The design for the Suseong Continuum was revealed on 29 October 2026 by Büro Ole Scheeren, an international architecture firm that also works on urban planning, interior design and research.

The gallery covers 364 square metres, roughly the size of a large house with a garden. It will sit inside Yeonhwaji park and is designed to be reached by a winding path. The building rises out of that path, as if the path itself had been pushed upward into a shape.

Inside, there are no enclosed rooms and no doorways. The space runs as one continuous route, and the firm describes its interior as a gradual shift between light, sound, enclosure and immersion. Visitors move from one part to the next without walking through doors.

The outside is finished in board-marked concrete, a rough texture left by the wooden boards used to shape the concrete as it set. Inside, the walls are smooth, so that they can carry projected images and media. A layered ceiling will run the full length of the gallery, hiding the lights and technical equipment. The lighting and technical systems were developed with the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, a German institution focused on art and media technology.

The building is partly sunk into the ground of the park and turned to face a nearby lotus pond. Its twisting form was shaped to follow the land around it.

The project is part of the Suseong International Biennale, a large art event held at intervals, which invites architects to create permanent public works across Daegu. The Suseong District Government commissioned the gallery. The design is expected to open in time for the 2028 edition of the biennale.

For now, the design itself is on display at the biennale, which runs until 22 November. Anyone who wants to see the plans before the building goes up can visit the exhibition in Daegu.

For visitors, the project is a reminder that a gallery does not have to be a set of rooms. Here, the walk through the park is part of the artwork, and the building is meant to be felt as much as seen.