Museum of Temporality

Architecture for Cycles of Creation, Exhibition, and Disappearance

Master Thesis (2025)
Author(s)

E.C. Tacken (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)

Contributor(s)

B. Groothuijse – Mentor (TU Delft - Berlage)

M. Finagina – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / A)

J.A.A. Woertman – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / AE+T)

Erwin Mlecnik – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Real Estate Management)

Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
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Publication Year
2025
Language
English
Graduation Date
02-07-2025
Awarding Institution
Delft University of Technology
Project
['Complex Projects Graduation Studio: Bodies and Building, Milan']
Programme
['Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects']
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
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Abstract

This graduation project explores how architecture can give form to temporality through a new typology for contemporary art museums. Designed for Fondazione Prada in Milan, this Museum of Temporality questions the traditional idea of a static and permanent museum and instead proposes a cultural institution built around cycles of artistic creation, public exhibition, private exhibition and demolishing rituals. By integrating artist residencies, fashion collaborations, and city-wide event calendars, the museum becomes a spatial system for transformation in time.

The project investigates how exclusive cultural experiences can be made more public and visible while maintaining the exclusive character of the client Prada, through flexible interior as well as constructional and material strategies, playing into today's FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) character of the building users.

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