Museum of
Emotions

A sanctuary seemingly ‘floating’ in the sea, one apparently arrives at this destination by boat. A dock forms the entry to a perimeter ring of exterior walkways that float among a series of vertical rectangular gray-clad blocks - some of them solid, the others inhabitable - and connect two larger, enclosed-square exhibition halls. The similar geometries of these larger halls are transformed into varying environments, one fully lit, the other punctured by curated holes of light. The jury writes: “There's a great balance between reality and fiction in this proposal. It seems somehow realizable but at the same time a fictional scenario that combines different emotions due to its interior spaces and location. The deep thought put into this submission is commendable. Not only are the two emotional areas depicted, but a strong significance is given to the experience of transition between the two - a sense of contemplation and desolation. One figure chooses to navigate and explore, the other sits still. One wonders how this island arrived here and how one can access it. If one is on this island, does one ever leave?”

In what looks to be an abandoned industrial warehouse, two circular exhibition hall enclosures are ‘hung’ within the skeleton of a cavernous and lofty space. The author plays with light, as well as its absence. The two contrasting halls function like yin and yang, and within these two nearly identical halls a visitor is either a) compressed by the space or b) mounted on a hill and completely open to the surroundings.  The author plays with the architectonics of solid spheres to induce sensation via compression and openness. The jury writes: “Care was taken in the creation of the overall model and how the creator crafted images to tell the story in a clear and compelling way. The project makes great use of the location’s volume by inserting additional volumes within it that do not compete with the main space. Less space on the panel could have been used to describe the location while showing a plan of the project could have been more beneficial. The final spaces - light and dark - could be visualized more strongly, or provided additional detail to induce a stronger emotion.”

This proposal is for a ring-shaped path that fluctuates in height to encapsulate a voyager through different dream-like scenographies. These moments vary from a chilling scene of black and white which appears to magnify figures on the opposite side of a translucent wall, as if phantoms, to another, more fantastical space filled with light purple spheres and smooth, lava-like orbs. The jury writes: “The waving floor which defines the circulation path creates an experience that varies from the other projects: visitors walk between reality and the virtual. The drawings are attractive and realizable. Even though within a futuristic, and somewhat abstract, tradition, this proposal has clearly strong qualities and convincing spatial experiences.”