Silkeborg Museum

Inspirations:
Utzon cites the experience of visiting the caves in Tatung, west of Peking, as a key inspiration. “All the caves are of different sizes and shapes and have different sources of light... the most fantastic result is one cave which is completely filled up by a Buddha figure with a face more than 20 feet high.”



Architectural aspects:
“It will be with a sense of surprise and a desire to penetrate down into the building that the visitor for the first time sees the three-storey building open beneath him. Unconcerned - by stairs and corridors, which normally disturb - the viewer will glide almost effortlessly down into the museum via the ramp, taking him through the space.
Strict geometry will form the basis for a simple constructional shape. The vible curved external surfaces are to be clad with ceramics in strong colors so that the parts of the building emerge like shining ceramic sculptures, and inside the museum will be kept white.”
Jørn Utzon

Plans






writing and plans, accessed 24th september 2008, http://www.arcspace.com/architects/utzon/silkeborg.htm

Website

http://andrewieong.com/ however this only works in explorer for some reason, so please mark this with explrorer and not with firefox.

Snapshots of website

3d interaction

this video allows the user to move within the Kuwait Pavillion, however it does not work here but within my website it should work.
THANK YOU: i was only able to obtain this video with the help from Derek Georgeson a fellow student


rightone.avi
This is a anitmation that shows some of the many different structures the Kuwait Pavillion can assume, also showing the main aspects of this Architecture

Plans

redered pics

Research

Design Process:
Calatrava’s design process for the Kuwait Pavillion, initially shows he thought of the building as the interlocking of two hands open and apart, with 5 fingers. This was thought also with the Kuwait’s role in the international community, as the decision to include Kuwait among the countries participating in Seville’s Expo ’92 led to the construction of a pavilion that would reaffirm, once the Gulf War was over.

Description
The project’s cross-section is distinguished by the contiguity of the surface of the raised platform and thee access stairways of the raised platform and the access stairways on either side combine to create a graceful, uninterrupted curve, like a segment of cylindrical section. This structure is supported by compound wooden girders of open triangular section which are visible from the exhibition space on the lower level.
By day, the platform assumes a protected, shaded attitude, while at night it transforms into a totally open space for the projection of slides and videos.

Architectural Aspects:
The roof located above the exhibition hall, is composed of 17 wooden elements, each 25 meters long, they are supported by leaning pilasters in reinforced concrete which also serve to define the threshold between inside and out.
A hydraulic system of counterweights allows the rib-like roof elements to rotate on the tube girder that joins them to the pilasters; since each rib moves independently, the possibilities of the different configurations that the structure can assume are effectively unlimited.