602 Design Studio - MArch Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2020
Critic: Miroslava Brooks, TA: Marta Llor
Location: The Met Breuer
partner: Maria J. Fuentes
Paola Antonelli’s Broken Nature exhibition influenced the project’s ethos which stresses the positive outcome of museums being curated through a fluid institutional approach; encompassing the natural and the synthetic to accumulate an applicable data set to continue conversations surrounding the Anthropocene.
Our project proposes to re-create and infiltrate traditional gallery spaces with environmental biomes and art residencies to create a new hybrid typology for the 21st century museum. With this project we first looked at nature as a combination of human and non-human elements that cross pollinate at multiple scales in a grey threshold between the visual and the non-visual. This allowed us to think of a museum institution more fluidly; as a series of biomes that allow for different natural moments to exist in muddled binaries with the artificial. We defined biomes as place-making rooms of environmental change which oscillate between the natural and the artificial. This is seen through the lens of non-anthropocentric agencies. These biomes could be virtual biomes, plant incubators, or homes to synthetic art.
The building is one that hopes to set a new precedent for what sort of natures, stories, and ideas deem a space. The urban canyon sets out to carve out a public space for the pedestrian, as well as informing inhabitants of what could be artificial, what is nature, and how we find ourselves in the mix as humans.
The building is one that hopes to set a new precedent for what sort of natures, stories, and ideas deem a space. The urban canyon sets out to carve out a public space for the pedestrian, as well as informing inhabitants of what could be artificial, what is nature, and how we find ourselves in the mix as humans.
Generative Collage
