Architecture students Kim Lagercrantz and Chiya-Ching Young talk about their designs for fashion museums in Los Angeles, California. By exploring the 2D and 3D qualities of flatness and contemporary pop culture, we intend to develop systems of color, texture and plastics that will produce multiple affects and varying degrees of sensation. While touching an urban obsession for Surface, the envelope becomes a prime target for architectural salvation that offers immediate gratification. Although our building may emerge as a body from the exterior, the interior shows that a new kind of figurative condition developed from the initial 2D digital drawing applied to the Surface. Articulated as floating Exhibition Chambers, elongated rooms open up to outside revealing views across the city.
From the outside, they appear like glowing stars on the facade. We look for qualities that are ephemeral and temporal, a sense of continuity, but also a clear spatial transition that reinforces similarities as well as unexpected differences. We are interested in these relationships, in the juxtaposition of different qualities, numbers, the impact that it can have. Upon reaching the discovery, the color becomes darker, the structure deeper, while the epicenter is the white disclosure of the blush inside, which eventually fades into a new color. By using color we maximize the contrast between Surface and Chamber..
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