New M HKA museum_construction of a Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art

New M HKA museum_construction of a Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art

Chen, Jiaxin (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Rosbottom, D.J. (mentor)
Klooster, M.W. (graduation committee)
Zeinstra, J.S. (graduation committee)
Visscher, H.J. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Interiors Buildings Cities

2023-06-23

This year's theme of the studio is based on ‘An Architecture For Art’. From churches and palaces, through the development of the Palace of Culture in the 19th century: public museums and galleries, to modern studios and galleries, art centres and the White Cube of the second half of the last century, and the gradual similarity between commercial and gallery spaces, art spaces have gradually evolved and their attitude towards the public, society and art has changed. The studio focuses on the controversial area of the space of the contemporary art gallery and also considers its societal role and how its responsibilities to the heterogenous contemporary city and its diverse population might be physically manifested in the image and presence of a new public building.
The project takes an actual project as its starting point, allowing the conditions and concerns of a real brief for a real client to be one key reference point in the development of both individual and collective concerns. This year we work on a competition brief for the redevelopment of M HKA, the contemporary art museum of Antwerp, on a new site close to its existing one in the South of the Belgian city. At the same time, the site is in the old court building in Belgium, which is an important architectural heritage, so there is value in considering the retention or partial retention of the old building.
So it became the theme of my project to consider the function of the new museum while preserving the existing building, using the New and the Old to provide variation to the public and exhibition spaces of the museum.

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