Tectonic → Urban Veil
2024 Spring
Quilt Museum
Instructor: Terrence Goode
Site: Seneca Fall, NY
Collaborators: Pengfeiyu Chen
In this design project, we particularly interested in investigating the role of museums. We believe museums are places where people interact with objects rarely encountered in their daily lives. However, for most museums, this interaction is limited to visitors and lifeless "exhibits." Through investigations, we found that the process from collecting to displaying quilts is lengthy and complex. We believe that dynamic process holds the same value as quilt itselves. Based on this, we attempted to present hidden processs.
The building acts as a stage, the protagonist is not only the quilts, but staff who do the conservation everyday. Simultaneously, we want visitors to experience the local urban context while exploraing the exhibition. Based on this, we designed a unique tour pathway. This visitor path space neither belongs to the internal "stage" nor the external world; it's sandwiched in between.