THE SPACE BETWEEN: WEEK 1

Oscar Niemeyer: Museum of Modern Art in Caracas

It is a museum built between 1954 to 1955 in an inverted pyramid form on a cliff.  The glass ceiling and large glass windows allow natural light goes in. There is also a free form walkway with eye-catching colour which let visitor access.

Concepts: 

• Futurism
• Free form plan
• Interaction with surrounding nature 
• Extension
• Upside down/ inverted 

Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA): Le Rolex Learning Center

This organic concreted surface laboratory was opened in 2010. It is a single fliud spaces with no walls with gentle slopes and organic shaped terraces. nevertheless it supported by some "invisible" poles so it is new for the building structure.

Concepts:

• Fluid space
• Relationship between form and human life
• innovative
• Curves and slopes
• Lack of physical boundaries

AXONOMETRICS :

• Lack of physical boundaries (Kazuyo Sejima)

• Inverted/ upside down (Oscar Niemeyer) 

• Parallel (Kazuyo Sejima)

• Futurism (Oscar Niemeyer) 

• Lack of physical boundaries (Kazuyo Sejima) 

• Extension (Oscar Niemeyer) 

• Fluid spaces (Kazuyo Sejima) 

• Free form/ organic form (Oscar Niemeyer) 

Axonometric in Lumion:

References:

"Rolex Learning Center - SANAA," Rolex Learning Center - SANAA, accessed April 09, 2017, http://www.arcspace.com/features/sanaa/rolex-learning-center/.

"Museum of Modern Art in Caracas Oscar Niemeyer," ArtChist, March 07, 2017, accessed April 09, 2017, http://www.artchistblog.com/architecture/museum-of-modern-art-in-caracas-oscar-niemeyer/attachment/museum-of-modern-art-in-caracas-oscar-niemeyer/.