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B.04
MAAT/MRKT
Type:
MIT Option Studio
Professor:
Florian Idenburg
Date:
Spring 2020
The MAAT museum in Lisbon, Portugal, invited our studio to reconsider the role of the art museum as a civic institution. The MAAT is a public museum owned by the EDP Energy Group, Portugals’ largest energy provider. MAAT/MRKT asks: what is the relationship between the experience of art works and engagement in civic discourse? How can a building negotiate the conflict between a private institution’s fiscal and cultural ambitions?
The proposal takes on the form of a market. As a type of building, markets are agile and expansive: they spring up where they can. As self-governing places for the exchange of goods, markets set consumer values. But markets also make space on their edges for agonistic regulation and debate: this is where assets become cultural. MAAT/MRKT is a museum concept that aims to cultivate the market’s frictional edge.
The site is directly adjacent to a historic power station, owned by the EDP. An open series of free standing pavillion structures are arranged along a series of CMU shear walls. The pavillions are assembled from steel components re-purposed from the powerstation. The compression-ring roof structures of the pavillions are loaded with construction debris and calçada portuguesa - the traditional street pavers of Lisbon that are currently being replaced.
The pavillions aggregate to give a shady open plan. This in-between area is MAAT/MRKT’s provocation: if private institutions want to serve a public, they must register civic issues in spaces that are both loaded with value and universally accessible. MAAT/MRKT attempts to materialise, foreground and extend a contestable boundary between legislated art-space and indeterminate public-space.
01. south view
02. waterfront view
03. interior view
04. bridge view
05. concept model
02. waterfront view
03. interior view
04. bridge view
05. concept model
06. concept model
07. structural study: zero-sum columns
08. mutsuro sasaki study: tama diaphragm
09. mutsuro sasaki study: sendai flux column
01. plan
02. plan
03. west section
04. structural diagrams
05. concept sketch
06. concept sketch
07. repurposed parts
08. repurposed ballast
09. module model
07. structural study: zero-sum columns
08. mutsuro sasaki study: tama diaphragm
09. mutsuro sasaki study: sendai flux column
01. plan
02. plan
03. west section
04. structural diagrams
05. concept sketch
06. concept sketch
07. repurposed parts
08. repurposed ballast
09. module model
B.04
MAAT/MRKT
Type:
MIT Option Studio
Professor:
Florian Idenburg
Date:
Spring 2020
The MAAT museum in Lisbon, Portugal, invited our studio to reconsider the role of the art museum as a civic institution. The MAAT is a public museum owned by the EDP Energy Group, Portugals’ largest energy provider. MAAT/MRKT asks: what is the relationship between the experience of art works and engagement in civic discourse? How can a building negotiate the conflict between a private institution’s fiscal and cultural ambitions?
The proposal takes on the form of a market. As a type of building, markets are agile and expansive: they spring up where they can. As self-governing places for the exchange of goods, markets set consumer values. But markets also make space on their edges for agonistic regulation and debate: this is where assets become cultural. MAAT/MRKT is a museum concept that aims to cultivate the market’s frictional edge.
The site is directly adjacent to a historic power station, owned by the EDP. An open series of free standing pavillion structures are arranged along a series of CMU shear walls. The pavillions are assembled from steel components re-purposed from the powerstation. The compression-ring roof structures of the pavillions are loaded with construction debris and calçada portuguesa - the traditional street pavers of Lisbon that are currently being replaced.
The pavillions aggregate to give a shady open plan. This in-between area is MAAT/MRKT’s provocation: if private institutions want to serve a public, they must register civic issues in spaces that are both loaded with value and universally accessible. MAAT/MRKT attempts to materialise, foreground and extend a contestable boundary between legislated art-space and indeterminate public-space.
01. south view
02. waterfront view
03. interior view
04. bridge view
05. concept model
02. waterfront view
03. interior view
04. bridge view
05. concept model
06. concept model
07. structural study: zero-sum columns
08. mutsuro sasaki study: tama diaphragm
09. mutsuro sasaki study: sendai flux column
07. structural study: zero-sum columns
08. mutsuro sasaki study: tama diaphragm
09. mutsuro sasaki study: sendai flux column
01. plan
02. plan
03. west section
04. structural diagrams
05. concept sketch
06. concept sketch
04. structural diagrams
05. concept sketch
06. concept sketch
07. repurposed parts
08. repurposed ballast
09. module model
08. repurposed ballast
09. module model