Year 4 Semester 2 Architecture Portfolio

3+2=1 Choo Qing Yuan

3+2=1

by Choo Qing Yuan The premise of this project focuses on the in depth research of Mies van der Rohe’s architecture, particularly the New National Gallery in Berlin (NNG). As an extension to the existing NNG, the task was to create an annex museum directly across it on an empty site.

Prior to the start of the actual design, tenkei workshops were conducted as spatial studies, particularly on concepts such as ‘public and semi-public spaces’, ‘box in a box (space within a space)’, and ‘space one can go, space one cannot go’.

The main concept of the project deals with the idea of overlapping spaces. The museum consists of 3 volumes, where the main gallery (universal space) is intersected with 2 other volumes, a sunken pavilion and an enclosed elevated platform. These intersected volumes then create new transitional spaces. The Annex museum is placed diagonally on site to provide vantage points towards important landmarks on its facades. Its diagonal grid is also an extension of the original NNG grid.

The spaces that one cannot go are defined as the management spaces that are inaccessible to visitors. The idea is also displayed through the vertical relationship of the museum levels: Ground Level as gallery space (space one can go), and second storey as storage and management spaces (space one cannot go).

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Tenkei Workshop 3: Space one can go, space one cannot go