ART OMI MUSEUM

“…more than a museum, I think of it as a place where art, sky, earth, and people can meet.”
I seek sensations rather than functions. The idea is a sense of community, a spirit in which art connects with the place itself and the place becomes an isolated world, where exhibitions expose people to art and generate a union between people and place, a place of art. I seek to reveal the emotions that the place evokes: architecture must produce bodily sensations, those that awaken the senses and enable the union between art and nature. In this way, art can merge with natural events and with the forces that push human beings to rediscover humanity as a living being between heaven and earth..."
From the previous analysis, we can consider our project as an element that unifies and reveals all natural forces, while also serving as a place of protection. It is a home in which to stay and observe the natural phenomena that occur around us.
This choice led us to prefer a specific location for the "House": in a valley, a crevice, where a natural pond could easily be created to better capture the site's variability and the dynamic changing of the seasons with their sharp contrasts of light and shade.
Our home, "The Art House," is a rigorously scientific and technological museum space, yet attentive and designed for the encounter between earth and sky, landscape and man, art and nature: it is an anthropology of the spirit.
The museum spaces are deliberately labyrinthine and waiting to be discovered, like the surrounding landscape. Art is revealed within these spaces as a cultural element. of human expression. It creates a comprehensive sense of community that compels us to unite the external with a new and feasible coexistence. This novelty lies in its absence of danger and effort.
Year
2007
Location
GHENT, NEW YORK
Category
CULTURE
Status
Grand Staircase
Gross floor area (sqm)
850

















