Further Initial Research : Zainul Art Museum

While I was researching on what museum to design, I wanted to do something which will express my work and also the purpose behind designing should be expressed. 

I thought of designing an art museum as well as known by the name art galleries. They serve as exhibition venues for many types of art, most frequently visual art including paintings, sculptures, photographs, illustrations, drawings, ceramics, and metals. Amerbach-Cabinet in Basel (now Kunstmuseum Basel) was the first privately owned art museum in Europe. As the location I decided which is in my country, there is hardly any art museums for the artist to showcase their artworks and talents to the general public or the art lovers. 

Art that distorts the representation of reality to portray the creator's inner thoughts or feelings is known as expressionism. As I mentioned earlier, an art museum is a place to exhibit art which includes paintings, illustrations, photographs and sculptures so that clearly explains this museums is expressing the artistic works of famous artist or new artist who may have new things to show to the world. The purpose behind the museum design is that will portray and represent the artist work.

It is known as the Switch House and has a latticed brick exterior and folded surfaces. Inside, there are a variety of overground and underground passages as well as a new roof terrace with magnificent city views. The addition helps recreate the brickwork of Giles Gilbert Scott's original power station by using latticed brickwork to cover the building's exterior. The structure glows at night because of the many holes that let light in during the day. Additionally, there are a number of thin windows that cut slashes through the brick surfaces. I feel like the way they have designed, it arranges the additional areas into an unusual pyramid-shaped tower, and as it rises, the concrete structure folds into remarkable lines. The structure presents the brickwork of the power plant in a completely innovative way.

"Our aim was to create an architecture that allows for flexibility, improvisation, adaptation and change," Ascan Mergenthaler, a senior partner at Herzog & De Meuron continued, "from the cavernous subterranean Tanks dedicated to performance and installation art, to the lofty top-lit galleries with their large luminescent ceilings, from a broad ribbon for circulation meandering up through the building, to generous day-lit education spaces."

References:

Different types of museums (no date) Types of Museums - Museum Types and Categories. Available at: http://www.historyofmuseums.com/museum-facts/types-of-museum/ (Accessed: 23 May 2023).

Amy Frearson |20 June 2016 20 comments (2022) Tate Modern Switch House by Herzog & de Meuron opens, Dezeen. Available at: https://www.dezeen.com/2016/06/20/tate-modern-switch-house-herzog-de-meuron-london-opens-to-the-public-jim-stephenson/ (Accessed: 23 May 2023).