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Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art / Planda Architecture | ArchDoc

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Courtesy Planda ArchitectureThe young Parisian firm Planda Architecture has shared with ArchDaily their recent competition entry for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in Manhattan. Follow after the break for additional images of this project in addition to a description from the architects. Courtesy Planda Architecture“False Modesty” The project is located in a neighborhood of Manhattan that is in constant mutation. Many buildings have strong typologies in this area: like the New Museum by SANAA on the next block or the Blue Tower by Bernard Tschumi at the opposite end of the project.The idea was to answer in opposition and to give it a minimal aspect by covering it with an opaque and uniform envelope. As a monolith, the building exists by expressing a clear introversion in a heterogeneous environment.Courtesy Planda Architecture“Interior Richness” The comic book is a solitary pleasure that is shared between friends. Exhibiting these works in a museum pushes them into the public arena at a location defined as exclusive. This paradox was finally resolved by reversing the significance of the exhibition halls and galleries and to focus all the attention on libraries and archives.The library has a spherical shape and becomes the center of a dynamic core of the whole MOCCA. The room is like a dialog bubble expressing simply the place of encounter and exchange between visitors that come to discover what we call the “9th Art”.Site Plan#gallery-1 {margin: auto;}#gallery-1 .gallery-item {float: left;margin-top: 10px;text-align: center;width: 33%;}#gallery-1 img {border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;}#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {margin-left: 0;}

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Interpretation Center of the Andalusian Prehistory / Luis Machuca & Associates | ArchDoc

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Courtesy of Luis Machuca & AssociatesLocated in a national landmark, the proposal for the Interpretation Center of Andalusian Prehistory by Luis Machuca Associates strengthens and takes care of this feature by its presence on the existing territory. The object of their design was that the other landmark, the museum and the park, could be distinguished from their immediate environment, both during the day and at night. More images and architects’ description after the break.Courtesy of Luis Machuca & AssociatesThe design does not prevent us from integrating the museum into the hillside, adapting it to the place both in formal characteristics and in the choice of materials that make up the building’s skin. The topography of the park should be hardly modified by the new building, just so much as it makes possible exploring it comfortably.Courtesy of Luis Machuca & AssociatesArchaeological parkThe proposal creates new pathways and flowerbeds and the roads have concrete pavement to straightedge the land where it is necessary. Meanwhile, in other areas, recycled wood will be laid down, with the sensation as if they were floating over the field. The paths at some areas convert into viewpoints from that the visitors can have a special view on the landscape.Courtesy of Luis Machuca & AssociatesOutside routesThrough this design, people can feel like being in a cave while outside of the building, because if we pass under the piece that attempts to settle on one of the entrance zones, we arrive to a courtyard that is partly covered by the building. Here, we had the opportunity to create a close-to-nature resting zone.Courtesy of Luis Machuca & AssociatesThe open auditorium has been integrated into the museum building as part of the very characteristic topography of the site, and it also helps to shape the above described court. As it is well protected by its own shape, it also has very good acoustic features.Courtesy of Luis Machuca & AssociatesMuseum routesThe visitors arriving at the lobby get to the upper floor by a lift or taking the stairs, and from this place descending on a gentle slope, make the museum route until they arrive to the lobby again. In the final section, there is a temporary exhibition hall, which could be the beginning of the route, or be operated autonomously. The museum can also be discovered from the opposite direction due to its bow shape, because the two ends join by the elevator and the staircase.Architect: Luis Machuca & Associates Architect and director: Luis Machuca Santa-Cruz Architects: Luis Machuca, María Machuca, Manuel Rodríguez Architect-Museology: León Carlos Álvarez Lda. bellas artes, museology: Miriam Díaz Lda. bellas artes museology, scenography: Blanca Machuca Archaeology-museology: María del Mar Espejo Museology INGHO engineers: Pedro Cantalejo Quantity surveyor-architect: José Manuel Caro Architecture students: Eszter Berecz, Ana García, Rafael Gimbel#gallery-1 {margin: auto;}#gallery-1 .gallery-item {float: left;margin-top: 10px;text-align: center;width: 33%;}#gallery-1 img {border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;}#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {margin-left: 0;}

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The Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum / Sparano + Mooney Architecture | ArchDoc

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© John Edward LindenThis new museum houses a permanent collection as well as a continually rotating exhibit depicting the history of this area of Los Angeles County. The program includes a multi-purpose room and archival area, a curatorial office, and both interior and exterior exhibit spaces. Clerestory windows and focused views provide natural light to the galleries. Views of the nearby San Gabriel Mountains are incorporated into the exhibit as the historical is juxtaposed with the present. Relationships to the site and existing community center west of the museum are created through geometric and material references to the context. Architects: Sparano + Mooney Architecture Location: Arcadia, California, USA Project Area: 4,000 sqf Photographs: John Edward Linden, Deborah Bird, Sparano + Mooney Architecture© Deborah BirdThe design was inspired through an in-depth analysis of the complex relationship between the historian who records the past and the museum visitor experiencing the present. Central to this relationship is the notion that history is understood through second and third generation sources. Since these sources all interpret history through their own biases, they act as filters which affect the original event. To understand history one must not only understand one’s own relationship to the event, but must also be aware of the historian’s relationship to that event. The design of the Arcadia Historical Museum seeks to heighten the visitor’s awareness of the existence of these filters.site planThe design process began with the development of a conceptual viewing apparatus, which explored the impact of filters on what and how an object is viewed. This construct was translated into an architecture that changes dramatically based on the position of the observer. When viewed at a right angle, the façade dissolves as one looks through the wood louver screen; at an oblique angle, the façade appears solid.floor planThe idea extended into the development of the exhibit which assumed a hyper-flexible and democratic approach, incorporating changeable elements including chalkboards for changing texts, corkboard frames for rotating displays, and movable open display cases which transform the space by their location, and invite hands-on interaction with the collection.Project Team: John P. Sparano, AIA and Anne G. Mooney (principals), Michael Atkinson, Matt Bean, Rene Berndt, Mahnaz Zahiry, Tomahisa Miayuchi (project team). Consultants: Melisa Keeler (exhibits/graphics), Moroko & Shwe (Mechanical Engineering), Felix Roth & Associates (Electrical Engineering), Koh & Associates (Structural Engineering), Civil Trans (Civil Engineering), Gil Flores (Landscape Architecture), Jo Drummond (Specifications)#gallery-1 {margin: auto;}#gallery-1 .gallery-item {float: left;margin-top: 10px;text-align: center;width: 33%;}#gallery-1 img {border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;}#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {margin-left: 0;}