Submission 3 Developed Design
As we are building a Experimental Art Foundation, I feel like the most intriguing challenge I was facing is, how do I deal with the relationship between Architecture and Art. For me, as an architect, I do not necessarily create art itself. What I create is the possibility for art to be produced as well as to be represented.
That's the reason why I decided to use concrete as my main material along my whole design progress. The thing I love about concrete is, its quietness, emotionless, almost like a silent giant, never talks much. By pursuing silence in my architecture, I wish to really push the artists and their artworks to the centre of the stage. Architects stay humble so the artists don't have to.
With that being the driven force behind all my design decision, I came up with the "concrete forest" idea.
With massive concrete structures on top of the platform, I intended to create quality spaces for artworks to be represented. Surrounded by concrete elements which represent silence, the artworks are allowed to be "loud", drawing attentions from visitors.
As for the chambers, they will be divided in a way that each studio room has its own character - some a double size that the original chamber, some have two stories, some are darker that the other etc. There are horizental and vertical opening on the sea wall to bring lights into the art labs. I'd like to call it "bar-code" openings.
