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In response to the competition’s challenge - to create a museum dedicated to immigration, located on the beach - this project proposes a reinterpretation of the pier: a light structure advancing into the water, a passage from the firmness of immediate reality to the uncertainty of future horizons. The structural supports of the pier type are multiplied, stretched, and bent, becoming a maze capable to sustain the museum’s nests. The nests represent a form of habitation born out of temporal crystallizations of flows: tides, winds, land erosions, migrating populations, traveling exhibits, oscillating capital, and volatile definitions of “ethnicity”, “identity”, and “culture”. Within the structural maze, and among the nests, the pier walk splits into threads that sew journeys inside the museum from space to space, and outside the museum from land to water.

A system of 480 cylindrical metal posts organized on a 2x2 m grid provides structural support and represents the main generator of space. The process of design occurs in several stages. Firstly, spaces are being fitted within the cells of the grid. The spatial requirements are seen as vectors that push the vertical supports in order to shelter the museum’s rooms. As a result, the vertical supports set apart, bend, and twist, defining the spatial configuration of the museum. Wooden slats attached onto the metal posts enclose space, and allow the filtering of light. Along the pathways, the museum’s nests become themselves exhibits that can be crossed, encircled, seen from above or from below.

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Nesting

Pier Museum International Design Competition. Arquitectum
Miami, FL. 2008

Design: M. Razvan Voroneanu

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