An Architecture For Art: The New Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp

Humankind has always made art. Through its appeal to the human senses, it has helped to shape the ways in which we perceive the world around us and, in its varied forms, offers a means beyond language through which we have become able to articulate our relationships with one another. Throughout the ages art and architecture were facilitators of...

New Building for Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp

This year's Interiors Buildings Cities graduation studio focused on reimagining the contemporary art museum typology through the lens of M HKA in Antwerp. The process of designing a new museum building, guided by principles of anti-monumentality and a dedication to public engagement, led to a site-specific intervention revolving around the...

Between City and Palace: The Palais des Beaux-Arts

Spaces of experience: About the spatial implications of contemporary art and the agency of architecture

The framework of this work is situated between the typological issue about the epistemological definition of art spaces, and their role as consequence within the city, and a personal interest in the kind of attention art demands in space for a specific engagement. It is in the place where art is displayed that the knowledge about it is produced....

The blind and sighted in tandem: a new, truly inclusive art experience

This graduation project describes the research and design process of taking on several challenges that arise in the context of blind people in the museum. Research showed that blind people are interested in going to museums and exhibitions in general. But most museums do not provide enough information for them to enjoy a museum experience. <br/...

A New Museum for 20th Century Art

The Arts and Crafts Center of Vrancea: For the Simple Romanian People and the World

The thesis aims to show how culture tradition and identity are important in a country's economy and modernization. The location the project focuses in is Vrancea, a mountainous county in Romania. The problem with Vrancea is that the villages currently don't get enough benefits from the government, which doesn't provide enough economical...

The transformation of a highvoltage laboratory at the KEMA terrain in Arnhem into a museum for magical realistic art.

Between the Veluwe and the river the Rijn in the west of Arnhem is the KEMA terrein located in a park designed in beautiful english landscape architecture. The laboratories of KEMA (Keuringsdienst Elektrische Materialen Arnhem), designed in the thirties and realised in the Haagse School Stijl, are vacant these days. Our assignment was to choose...