평양학생소년궁전의 건설 과정과 구성 전략 = Construction Process and Formal Strategies of the Pyongyang Students and Children’s Palace

국문 초록 (Abstract)

본 연구는 평양학생소년궁전의 건축이 강력한 국가 권력을 표현하며, 동시에 인민을 위한 건축임을 보여주려 했음을 주장한다. 1963년 평양의 중심에 들어선 평양학생소년궁전은 대칭과 비대칭의 결합, 수직 타워와 수평적 구성의 병치, 소비에트 신고전주의와 기능적 미학의 혼용, 대규모 시설이면서도 기능별로 분절된 볼륨의 동적인 결합을 시도했다. 이러한 구성은 이 시기 북한과 소련의 건축적 경험을 활용한 것이었다. 여기서 볼 수 있는 권력의 표상과 탈기념비성을 동시에 표현하는 기법은 이후 북한의 여러 학생소년궁전 건축에 영향을 주었다.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study explores how the Pyongyang Students and Children’s Palace simultaneously represented state power and civic openness whilesoftening its monumental presence. Completed in 1963 in the heart of Pyongyang, the palace projected the authority of the Kim Il-sungregime while providing diverse spaces for extracurricular education for the city’s children and youth. To do so, it orchestrated a set ofdeliberately tensioned strategies: coupling symmetry with asymmetry; juxtaposing a vertical tower with expansive horizontal wings; hybridizingSoviet neoclassicism with functional aesthetics; and dynamically integrating large-scale yet programmatically segmented massing into acohesive whole. This compositional logic drew on stylistic, technical, and discursive developments accumulated in North Korean and Sovietarchitecture from the late-1950s to the early 1960s and subsequently set precedents for later students’ palaces across the country. Notably, thebuilding is among the few North Korean projects for which sources explicitly articulate its design rationale. Drawing on these sources, thispaper clarifies how the dual character of North Korean architecture—publicly promoted as architecture “for the people,” yet undergirded bythe symbolism of state power—was negotiated within a single architectural work.