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Kanno Museum by Atelier Hitoshi Abe

Located in a small town of Shiogama, Japan, with a view of the Pacific Ocean, Atelier Hitoshi Abe designed a private art museum intended to permanently display eight sculptures owned by the client.

Rather than a white cube able to accommodate any type of exhibition, they aimed to design a unique landscape, and specific places for exhibiting each of the sculptures.

Within the predetermined 10×12x10 meter volume, the architecture was given form by creating the eight spaces as if inflating them like soap bubbles. This form is defined by balancing the conditions that give rise to the boundary surfaces of each cell, which are formed by the internal pressures of the small spaces within the large space of the entire building.

Visitors may experience the eight sculptures while moving around the cells.

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I have to say that is the worst choice of exterior texture on a building I’ve ever seen. I left my feed reader just to say that.

yingjai, September 30, 2008 at 12:36 pm

What kind of material did they use in interior and exterior?

Tatiana, October 1, 2008 at 8:04 am

Corten steel for the exterior (rusted finish), and all steel welded interior. They had skilled steel welders from the ship building industry put this museum together

qwerty, October 1, 2008 at 7:20 pm

I think this is worse than the worst of Gehry or Libeskind mentioning that they are as good as Nif-Nif and Nuf-Nuf.

nejix, May 30, 2009 at 10:59 am

what is concept this bulding?

zahra, April 13, 2010 at 5:44 pm