The precedent for this project was the Oslo Opera House, from which I extracted five moments—the roof as the fifth façade, horizontal expansion, the point at which nature meets artificial, the duality between public and private spaces, and the shift between interior and exterior. The building is a film archive. Integrated into its surrounding landscape, the building weaves above and below ground level, not only creating a single entity, but also focusing on horizontal expansion rather than verticality. The tilted roof serves as a public amenity as a walking plaza, and on one side is an outdoor theater, in which the screen extends from the building itself. The steps are large slabs used for both circulation and seating. However, the pace of the stairs changes as the view of the screen disappears, bringing the pedestrian into a public lobby that not only connects to the subway, but also leads to an indoor theater underneath the park, and thus creating a new node underground.
