Project
Tang Museum
Year: 2020
Category: Cultural Architecture
Skills: Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator
Both sculpture and architecture experience the same design process, the manipulation of three-dimensional space. Throughout the years sculpture went from being associated with monuments and places to isolated and abstract. Another boundary of architecture is landscape. Over many years landscape has become a territory that separated sculpture from architecture. By using the study of sculpture we can start to analyze the fluidity of all three practices, sculpture, landscape, and architecture. In this project, the art of sculpture was experimented at various scales. The relationship between sculpture, landscape, and architecture was developed through a series of iterations. By replicating the ceramic work of the artist Takuto Kuwata, displacement maps were created. By using the art of sculpture it enabled a continuity between landscape and architecture. The Tang Museum serves as a walkthrough experience of a collection of storage artwork of sculptures and other mediums for students at Skidmore college in New York. The Tang Museum integrates a part of the campus that has not been explored by allowing students to connect to nature and art like the architecture is a connection between landscape and the sculpture of the building.
Tang Museum Perspective
This Rendering captures the dynamic of the building from one end. The view is unique to other views captured because the architecture is lost in it's environment and the sense of depth starts to be obscure.
Site Plan
The Museum is immersed into the forest zone of the college campus. The geometry is clearly shown here. The unique form stretches' from student dorm are to education facilities providing students and faculty a physical space for freedom of mind.
Plan at Highest Level
The form of the Museum shapes the circulation of the visitor experience. The floors intertwine and elevate in elevation throughout. As shown in this plan, there are certain parts that are shown at the highest level. Parts of the floor are shown in the distance which gives a sense of depth and understanding that the building moves. This adds to the experience of being in the woods and adapting to the irregularity of it's landscape.
Tang Museum Perspective 2
The materiality is seen at a closer perspective in this image. The reflectivity of the glass allows the architecture to blend into it's environment.
Interior Rendering
This image shows a section of the museum where artwork is displayed as visitors walk through the building. Looking through the full height floor to ceiling glazing is the fully enclosed body of the museum that intersects the fully exposed body. This opposite dynamic provides two different experiences. One in which a visitor experiences nature in all views and another where art is displayed in every direction.
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