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The exhibition centre of contemporary art

The exhibition centre of contemporary art is the re-envisioned building of the new museum of contemporary art. It was designed as a exhibition architecture to replace the original design. It located in the city area and the configuration of building will provide the unique view for the visitors.

The original building was the new museum of contemporary and zollverrein school. The New Museum has bounced between being audacious and being annoying in its 30 years. From the outside, this silvery column is a symbol of an ambitious desire to reflect and participate in the discourse around contemporary art. The design of zollverein school was a cuboids structural shell, picks up the basic functional and effective idea used by the original Zollverein architects schupp and krimmer. The oversized cube, which measures 35 meters by 35 meters and is 35 meters high, which reflects the dimensions of the Zollverein mine

The external views of the building based on the original organization of the new museum which form with several different size boxes arrange together disarray. The exhibition centre has seven levels which every level have different random heights for different kinds of art exhibits. The ground level of the building is the main entry and the reception centre and level one is the rest area. Other levels are the show rooms.

For the lighting of the building, many different square size windows on the two side walls of the building with forested glass support diffuse light which could not make many shadows. For the lager window on the front wall, there is a wall in the room to stop the direct light.

The material on the wall outside the building is the metal grille exterior which could get diffuse light. For the internal materials, the circulation ramp used warm color timber make visitors could communicate. And in the exhibition space, the floor use gray concrete make visitors keep quiet.

For the circulation of the exhibition centre, the ramps on each side of each level which like a circle ramp around the building. Visitors could visit the museum just like one level.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Independent Study for 2 week break

The new museum of contemporary art
Kazuyo Sejima and ryue nishizawa have been working collaboratively under the name ‘sanaa’ since 1995. Sejima studied architecture at the japan women's university before collaborating with architect toyo ito. She launched her own practice in 1987 and was named ‘young architect of the year’ in japan in 1992. Nishizawa studied architecture at yokohama national university and, in addition to his work with sejima, has also maintained an independent practice since 1997.

The New Museum has bounced between being audacious and being annoying in its 30 years. From the outside, this silvery column is a symbol of an ambitious desire to reflect and participate in the discourse around contemporary art.