BAM / ARCHMEDIUM COMPETITION

1st Prize

VIRTUAL SCALE. When we ask " What is the reach of a building?" We reflect on the virtual user that invades buildings today. The objective of this proposal is the material indeterminacy. A museum of architecture represented not by its physical form, but by its infinite virtual forms. Thus, we try to separate the function from the form at the urban scale. There is no doubt that this building is part of an extremely complex city, where the urban narrative mutated with the passage of time. This is what the museum exhibits, the infinity of changes, unions, separations, reformulations and approaches in architectural matter. For this, it was necessary to make evident the expression of continuous change, helped by contemporary technology and in a message form, burying those paradigms to give place to the new, to the infinity of scales and possibilities. This building must be the motivator for new proposals.

The floor/the ceiling. The floor is the ceiling, and the ceiling is the floor. It is fundamental for us to understand that the informatic revolution has drastically modified the user in relation to the world. The difference between people who visit a city or a building in physical form and those who do it remotely, virtually, is immeasurable. Tools produced in the industrial revolution seem to have changed the way of conceiving an architectural work from the material point of view: long-span structures, large glazed surfaces, rationalization and normalization of the elements. On the other hand, this new revolution modifies the human being in relation to the work produced or to be produced. The way to perceive it, study it, travel through it. A student can have at hand plans, measurements, details, photos, interactive videos and sequences of the construction process while he drinks coffee seated in the couch of any place. So, what scale do buildings have now?

Below are the interpretations, the finished time, the possible forms, the fits and adjustments, the necessary articulations. Above, in the view of the virtual user, there remain the curiosities to be awakened, the indeterminate, the moving exhibition, the possibility to pursue the real scale of the distant and so, to teleport to any architectural work at any moment in history or, even better, to develop project researches on a real scale. This is the architectural museum-workshop of the contemporary world.

BAM is totally underground. With a sequence of holographic projections outside of it revokes the metaphorical explanation of knowledge, the contraposition of the sensitive world with the intelligible world. The decision to resolve the entire program below the level zero is strengthened by the consolidation of the environment with buildings of different cultural, religious, historical and, consequently, architectural character.

 In this way a large roof at level 0 generates an urban piazza, linking all these buildings to each other, understanding the role of the architecture museum in the area and the city. The translucent sunroof highlights the complexity of the real world-projected, the limit is emphasized with the non-existence of it. The people-users at level 0 are the projections in the void, different interventions/installations complement this idea. On the other hand, as in NNG, the whole program is resolved under a large roof, but in contrast to it, this roof is the floor of our building; it is neither a postulation nor a reaffirmation of the architectural object, on the contrary it istheorigin and development of knowledge below the real-built world.

For the resolution of the program, the different interaction and nature of each of these are highlighted, taking into account our large roof-floor and the inexistence of openings on the floors to the outside, developing an organic design of fluid relationships and ephemeral limits, despising all possible dogma. The inner courtyards are surpassed by places of double/triple/quadruple interior height.

Publicación en Plataforma Arquitectura

Cita: Belén Maiztegui. "Un museo virtual para Berlín, el proyecto ganador del concurso BAM para jóvenes arquitectos" 16 mar 2020. Plataforma Arquitectura. Accedido el 14 Abr 2020. <https://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/cl/935538/un-museo-virtual-para-berlin-el-proyecto-ganador-del-concurso-bam-para-jovenes-arquitectos> ISSN 0719-8914