Ontologies and Genelogies
What happens when a museum becomes an Adaptive space?
Across its genealogy, museums are spaces that preserve and exhibit works and collections dedicated to a certain culture or an artist. But what happens when the museum is no longer this static space but becomes rather an adaptive space that changes and adapts according to the preference of the user?
With the increase in digitalization, the line between the curator and the audience is becoming blurred. There is a generation that prefers or accepts digital interference but there is an audience that still prefers the traditional experience of the museum. So how does the museum bridge the transition between the two?
Intention of Design
The structure of the museum directs and dominates the movement and pause points in it. While looking at the transition from digital to analogue the spatial configurations create different ambiences and experiences that complements the transition between analogue and digital.
Site Analysis
Selected site: Kalidas complex
Location: Mulund West, Mumbai.
The site is a sports complex built around the theatre "Kalidas Natyamandir" which is a well known landmark in Mulund. The sports complex holds multiple activities like swimming, football, tennis, cricket, gymnasium, dance, etc. The co-existence of an active theatre and the sports complex attracts an interesting set of audiences to the site. The complex also organizes and promotes multiple cultural and social events for the local people.
Google image of the site:
Site plan (with context;
Site plan (zoomed in) :
Site layout with Movement diagram :
Built spaces:
Section 1
Section 2
Program:
The museum is seen as an extended public space, an archive for the theatre and a sports complex.
Design Ideas: (conceptual museum ... , collages and diagrams)
Staatsgaleria and Kiasma Museum section collage
Tracing and diagraming movement patterns of Kiasma Museum and Staatsgalerie to form a new movement pattern that fits the design context.
When I studied the plans and sections of the Kiasma Museum, Staatsgalerie and Jewish Museum the one I found out to be common in all of them is that movement played a very important role in the spatiality created. Either the structure influenced the movement pattern in the museum or the movement thus created influenced the spatiality of the space.
Hence, from this study, I used movement as an anchor point to develop my design.
Site of intervention:
Intervention point with the existing movement pattern on site
The already observed movement diagram of the site and site of intervention was traced down and on the basis of this newly established movement diagram the museum will be designed.
Movement diagrams for the design w.r.t movement diagram on site layout.
Other Iterations of the movement diagrams:
Museum of Ramps
The Museum works as a series of ramps as they influence and direct movement, where the ramps don't only connect space but itself become the museum space.
The above image is a plan of the framework structure of the ramp using 1:12 scale for the slope of the ramp that is derived using the above mentioned movement diagram.
Reference image
Axonometric view of the frame structure of ramp.
This frame structure is further developed and modified to create the Museum on Ramp.
In sections
The final design layout with placements ,of different programs on the ramp.
Final design of the ramp (without the installations) in axonometric within the site context.
The solid colour represents concrete flooring and the grid spaces represent metal wire mesh flooring
Structural Analysis
Metal wire mesh. (only for walkways and meandering spaces)
Any flooring can be added on the wire mesh but concrete flooring is used here.
Visually light and Structurally flexible
Structure of the ramp
Analogue Museum structure:-
Digital Museum structure.:-
Plan with movement diagram
Section of Analogue museum
Plan with movement diagram
Section of Digital museum
Plans and Sections (Final design) :-
Layer 1
Ground floor plan.
Layer 2
Plan of the Ramp.
The shaded portions of the ramps represent the wire-mesh structure which acts as a walk way. Plans of analogue and digital are also included in this layer. The unshaded portion is the concrete flooring on the ramp.
Layer 3
Roofs with skylights and seating spaces on the ramp are added in layer 3.
Section 1
