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500 WORD POSTER TEXT:Canadian born architect Frank Gehry designed The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein in Germany in 1989.Gehry is well known for his “Deconstructivist”style and this museum reflects this architectural style.Architectural structures that fall in this category are said to go beyond current modalities of structural definition, whereby the structures do not reflect the belief that form follows function.
His deconstructed architectural style began to emerge in the late 1970s when Gehry, directed by a personal vision of architecture, created collage-like compositions out of found materials. Instead of creating buildings, Gehry creates ad-hoc pieces of functional sculpture.
Gehry's architecture has undergone a marked evolution from the plywood and corrugated-metal vernacular of his early works to the distorted but pristine concrete of his later works. However, the works retain a deconstructed aesthetic that fits well with the increasingly disjointed culture to which they belong.
The exterior structural style of the museum reveals a combination of cuboid and sculpure like curves to enhance and mystify the aesthetic collage of compositions to blend in with the environment.
Gehry has applied disjointed curveous forms with deconstructive massing to form this impressive 8000 square foot museum to cater for the exhibition of furniture.
The museum is a functional masterpiece which stands out in the agricultural background amongst the cherry trees again emphasising its deconstructive nature.
Gehry, amid orchards and vineyards, created an extraordinary collage of a building. Outside, its jumble of forms suggest almost any imagery you care to apply - a church, a ship, a swan. Inside, it is simply one of the best new galleries anywhere, a masterly sequence of spaces that are each utterly different, each beautifully and naturally lit, and each visually linked most ingeniously with the others.
The Vitra museum takes ordinary elements - ramps, stairs, a corner with a window, a lift tower - pulls them apart and re-assembles them to challenge our notions of what a building should be.
My inspiration behind my design concept for the re-envision of the museum came from the idea of analysing the existing Vitra museum geometry consisting of prismatic and curve shapes of the building and hence allowing me to envisage a Vitra Night Club From my perspective, therefore a comparison arose between the theory of Re-envisioning the museum as a night club in which different types of music being played under the same roof with diverse types of people with different tastes is inherent in its shape and form providing a structural significance in Frank Gehry’s “Deconstructivism”
Site context:
The Vitra club would need to be allocated to the city so that it blends in with city night life.
Vitra club Matriality :
As to the building materiality environmently friendly aspects were considered such as color L.E.D backlit pannels, powered with photovoltaic systems, harvesting solar energy by day to make it organically self sufficient.
Also the use of materials such as perforated precast concrete wall systems and the use of “Magic glass” which changes to opaque during the day and clears up at night were used in some areas.
Another environmentally friendly aspect would be the use building materials to curb the noise within the Vitra club to make it accoustically viable.
BIBLIOGRAPHY :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitra_Design_Museum
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Vitra_Design_Museum.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Frank_Gehry.html
http://www.hughpearman.com/vaults/gehry.html
http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Vitra_Design_Museum
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