Friday, August 30, 2019

State Gallery of Lower Austria | Marte.Marte Architects

State Gallery of Lower Austria | Marte.Marte Architects

Designed by Marte.Marte Architects, It takes a lot to create a building like this. The materialization of the State Gallery of Lower Austria in Krems-Stein a der Donau is based on the architects’ daring vision, a determined political will, the teamwork of museum experts, craftsmen, and companies, and a dash of revolt. Krems – concentrated atmosphere on the broad Danube River, surrounded by gentle vineyards, crisscrossed by narrow lanes and attractive squares, nourished by the soundscape of the Minorite church and the museums of the art mile, resounding to the ethnographic music of Glatt & Verkehrt, the cacophony of tourists’ voices, and the avant-garde Danube Festival, and alternating tastes between Federspiel white wine and juicy apricots.

Vis-a-vis from Adolf Krischanitz’s austere Kunsthalle in the former tobacco factory, and next to Gustav Peichl’s Caricature Museum with its playful saw-tooth roof, the solitary building of the State Gallery makes an unmistakable artistic statement and joins forces with its location in a striking way. The structure, more sculpture than the building, eludes the viewers’ appreciation, constantly altering its expression and shape, and resists being drawn to scale, opting instead to be a concrete manifestation of the interplay of forces. The torsion around the northwest axis of the building generates a multitude of hyperparabolic surfaces.

Photography: Roland Horn

The connecting lines of the ground and roof floors’ unequal squares create spectacularly contorted surfaces, difficult for the human eye to comprehend. The sculpture twists around its vertical axis taper towards the top, and thanks to a carved-out incision in the roof, provides a clear view of Göttweig Benedictine monastery. Apart from the ground floor’s four glazed arches, it is this gesture which connects the building’s interior with the genius loci. This helps one of the most important landmarks of the Wachau Region to achieve its full effect, as the viewer’s eye is drawn to the historical monastery.
Otherwise, the malleable construction seems hermetic from the outside. The scale armor composed of matte zinc rhombuses transforms the “four-legged” concrete giant into an armadillo in knight’s armor. Inside, the two concrete towers forming the vertical constant of the building are a point of reference, an aid to orientation, and Escher-like stairs in one. Two fire escape staircases build one DNA helix, which leads and confuses viewers simultaneously. Owing to the powerful contortions of the exterior walls, every floor has its own unique layout.

Photography: Roland Horn

An original wall system for displaying images was developed together with the experienced museum team and a renowned museum planner. Art will conquer these interior spaces and connect with what feels huge and unrestrained as if you were walking in the belly of some gigantic creature. The State Gallery is like a holographic image of a geometric shell contorting around itself. What on one side appears to be aligned is on the other an overhang. Depending on the angle, the surfaces seem to twist – the motion captured in the still image is reanimated in the viewer’s motion. A sense of possibility leads to a sense of reality.

Photography: Roland Horn

Project Info:
Architects: Marte.Marte Architects
Location: Steiner Landstraße, 3500 Krems an der Donau, Austria
Area: 6850.0 m2
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: Roland Horn
Project Name: State Gallery of Lower Austria

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Exhibition Center of Shimao Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Center | SHUISHI

Exhibition Center of Shimao Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Center | SHUISHI

Designed by SHUISHI, Situated in the eastern CBD of Longgang, Shenzhen, Shimao Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Center enjoys the unique urban landscape resources, with its exhibition center constructed earlier looking towards Longgang Universiade Green Park, its east side facing the future super-high-rise main tower (it might become China’s tallest building), its north side close to the central green space, and its west side echoing with the landscape mountains. The exhibition center will take into account the functions of planning display, commercial marketing, art exhibition, cultural activities, etc., and inject new vitality into the urban area. It will become the first business card of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Center to the public.

Photography: Lv Lin

The architectural design has combined modern science and technology with traditional culture, taking “Spiral Scroll” + “Layered Gardens” as the core concept: The spiral rising architectural form together with the LED transparent screen, has formed a hazy paper canvas, displaying a long roll of landscape pictures with national charm; the overhanging at different levels and directions have formed a multi-dimensional layered garden, echoing with the scenery in all directions. The combination of the two is meant to create an exhibition gallery with rich cultural meanings.

Photography: Lv Lin

The gallery is floating above the water mirror, with pastel reflections full of interesting contrast. The tensile structure has overhanging layer by layer, changing directions all the time, and adding radiance and beauty to the surrounding field. The “Spiral Scroll” is circling and circling upwards, creating a hazy, tranquil, or grand, magnificent architectural atmosphere in varying periods of light and shadow.
The “Crystal Exhibition Hall” of the core exhibition space is embedded in it, which shows the artistic tone of the public opening. The landscaped terrace that follows the rotation of the building constitutes a “Layered Garden”, aiming to create an experience of touring in the air garden and form a continuation of indoor and outdoor temperament.

Rendering

The “Spiral Scroll” has adopted a double-layer curtain wall system, with the inner performance curtain wall following the functional layout closely, the outer shape curtain wall circling upwards with the cantilever, and the middle cavity with a built-in “LED transparent screen” multimedia system.
During the daytime, the glazed glass in the sun presents a pure and elegant temperament like the rice paper, looking so peaceful and graceful. At dusk, the afterglow of the sunset falls on the scroll, and the building and the sky glister together; when the curtain of night falls, the magnificent dynamic landscape pictures circle around the building, looking so grand and exciting; at night, the gentle floodlight mode makes the building return to nature, looking quiet and peaceful.

Plan

Project Info:
Architects: SHUISHI
Location: Longgang District, Shenzhen, China
Lead Architects: Le Sun, Zhong Yao, Xinyuan Pan
Architectural Design Team: SHUISHI Commercial Design Department(Lingshu Liu, Yuying Li, Tiezhu Liu)SHUISHI Urban Regeneration centre (Weishi Wang, Xin Chen)
Design Consultant: He Shen
Area: 6000.0 m2
Project Year: 2019
Photographs: Lv Lin
Manufacturers: CSG HOLDING
Project Name: Exhibition Center of Shimao Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Center

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