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arts, building a community that would have never existed if the area had continued as a major commercial zone. As the community begins to form an identity, the purpose of why the building exists shifts and is repurposed. OMA had the idea of adding a stack of planes that are detached from the building. These planes, apart from being detached, can move vertically, allowing access to some and restricting access to others. This gives a different meaning to what can be available and the meaning of each floor shifts. This is very important as you can isolate aspects of an event and use this to your advantage, individuating the stacks from each other and from the building. By undefining what these planes are supposed to be, OMA brakes the typical conventions of space. Space that is defined by program and human interaction becomes ethereal as planes aren’t accessible at specific times that are programed based on the installation. This taps into the notion of individuation by becoming something that is not defined by what it is, instead, it is defined by what it must become.
The renovation restores materials of the
interior in order to follow the guidelines of the City Heritage authorities. While the aesthetics of the building are not individuated from its context, artists can set up a space in the warehouse, where the space becomes a full exploration area, allowing access to any tools and desired building techniques for whatever the next exhibition may require. The space transforms through time as it may be used to build props or explore aspects of the current exhibition due to free use of the building for artists. The addition is also enclosed by a framing system in order to have at least one way in which it is part of the existing building. This makes the platforms behave as more than just partitions and bridges of space across the building. This notion of detachment from the main building typical conventions of program and what defines it as a set of rules that happen in a given space. The Shed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro behaves alike the gallery as it has a secondary exterior skin that rolls into the adjacent space. It dwells in the ideas of flexibility and improvisation. The building is comprised of two exterior