NEW YORK TOWER MUSEUM
The language of the project is the result of a dynamic space tension, which metaphorically makes reference to the shroud of the Statue of Liberty. Liberty conceived, in this case, as a permanent conquest state, more than an abstract principle to follow. The aim of the project was to create a kinetic tour through the Museum Tower, which would emphasize on the observer’s experience. This is achieved with the double heights resource in the exhibition halls and the alternation of the fullness and emptiness throughout the tower. The spiral movement, observed in the Statue’s shroud, is shown as from the horizontal that describes the line of the access bridge and gains strength with the space displacement of the exhibition platforms inside the Museum. As well as in Baroque, the spiral here suggests the infinite, the unfinished, that which is in constant mutability… as the migratory flows in a permanent identity-building process. But, unlike what happens in the Statue of Liberty that hides its structure, at the Museum Tower the structural and superficial form a multiple framework, which is solved in a series of overlapped opaque and transparent layers, turning the people’s tour in an organic tension, almost muscular at a perception level. The flow of this organic trend reinforces the initial gesture of the project. Finally, the overlapping and entwining of layers pretends to show the multiplicity, the conjunction of singularities, that form the own essence of the American identity.
http://www.arquitectum.com/
The language of the project is the result of a dynamic space tension, which metaphorically makes reference to the shroud of the Statue of Liberty. Liberty conceived, in this case, as a permanent conquest state, more than an abstract principle to follow. The aim of the project was to create a kinetic tour through the Museum Tower, which would emphasize on the observer’s experience. This is achieved with the double heights resource in the exhibition halls and the alternation of the fullness and emptiness throughout the tower. The spiral movement, observed in the Statue’s shroud, is shown as from the horizontal that describes the line of the access bridge and gains strength with the space displacement of the exhibition platforms inside the Museum. As well as in Baroque, the spiral here suggests the infinite, the unfinished, that which is in constant mutability… as the migratory flows in a permanent identity-building process. But, unlike what happens in the Statue of Liberty that hides its structure, at the Museum Tower the structural and superficial form a multiple framework, which is solved in a series of overlapped opaque and transparent layers, turning the people’s tour in an organic tension, almost muscular at a perception level. The flow of this organic trend reinforces the initial gesture of the project. Finally, the overlapping and entwining of layers pretends to show the multiplicity, the conjunction of singularities, that form the own essence of the American identity.
http://www.arquitectum.com/
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