Competiton brief:
It’s simple and clear: Switch/Replace the Guggenheim Museum in New York with your interpretation of the museum. What? Why? How? Yes. You heard that right. The competition offers a chance to re-create the iconic museum in NYC by the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright at the same exact site but with an entirely new perspective by the participants. The aim of this competition is to re-design the museum created by the master himself, with a similar intent to break from the prevalent conventionality in designing a museum and gallery space and create an innovative and extraordinary built form.
Competiton: SWITCH: GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM IN NEW YORK, 2018
Honorable Mention: Ryo Kawamoto, Egzon Feka, Hanif Adi Ramadhan
Three students at Politecnico di Milano, Ryo Kawamoto, Hanif Adi Ramadhan and Egzon Feka (student from Vushtrria, Kosovo) returned home with an honorary award to Frank Lloyd Wright’s existing museum modification project. Below you can find the project and some text from the architects.
The City Block That Matters
We started the project by analyzing the potential of its site. First thing first we recognize Manhattan as an Architecture Manifesto of what we called future in the next year. A city that appealing by its connotation about its architecture that compels much new activity, and architecture as a catalyst of living.
The term architecture here become less than space itself. We wanted to make an architecture which works with the term “at the same time”which is always intersected by many opportunities. We also want to make reveal the anonymous. From the context which has the continuity in between open space and closed space. The autonomous of form making space, based on the surface, the dichotomy and the diachronic between black and white. One block of a group of the building that makes the city of Manhattan is significant, until today.
We perceive how the grid blocks work in the city, although it’s not really rigid as Cerda plan in Barcelona, in Manhattan, we have an opportunity to make something distinctive The concept is to mapping three main point of what we call the sensibility of having favorable circumstances. The first one is the echo of space, a space that moving and makes the city block work at the same time. The second one is a building that understands how fluxes work in Manhattan. It means that are having a ground floor that belongs to the public.
A last one we are going to make a sense in the term of visualizing the building front on the 5th avenue. As we understand, the existing of the build they are having massive blocks. We are going to make some kind of transparency determined the inside and outside become blurred. The goal is to make the building that has no orientation but also a permeability of access, function, and vista. A building that’s not determined by the existing, but the open space and urban space.
For more info: https://switchcompetition.com/guggenheim-museum-new-york-results/
