hopePlate 211 · Seoul, South Korea

Sungnyemun

A gate burned by arson and rebuilt timber by timber, because a city could not lose its oldest face.

1398 / 2013 · Joseon builders · Asia

The chamber score

Daegeum sanjo

Folk professional · Korea

A palace roof, bent, in a bamboo flute.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Namdaemun, National Treasure No. 1, restored after the 2008 fire.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Sungnyemun through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Sungnyemun was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.