Floral Fossils
Beach Road Community Musuem
The museum is an architecture that stands for the community’s identity and heritage, based on their spatial and dwelling traits. The architecture blurs the boundaries between private and public spaces just as its dwellers do, by breaking out of the conventional grid. It aims to celebrate the groundedness of the dwellers by bleeding the inside and outside spaces of the galleries. Visual and physical connection with the surrounding activities and biodiversity was key in redefining an art space. As the community takes over the spaces and introduces their character, the pristine and clean museum becomes worn and beautiful. It grows old with character as dwellers bring in their red plastic chairs, and soccer balls, while the nature inside and outside the museum overgrows the architecture.
w h e r e | Beach Road, Singapore
w h a t | Community Museum
w h a t | Community Museum
Bluring the Boundaries between
Inside and Outside
Art and Environment
Design Concept
The community musuem aims to welcome community members and the public into the space by providing a non-forceful and open environment. Users will experience the musuem by having visual and physical connectivity among spaces. The nature and activity that lies outside the musuem is brought into the space such that dwellers in the musuem are not disconnected to the community’s ‘art’. Dwelling and transitional spaces are connected to experiencial art spaces, such that the barrier between art and user is broken.
Absrtact Interpretation
Parti Diagram
Floral Fossils
Relieved of their perisable forms and given permanance in white plaster, these fossils of nature forever carry the emotional impact of their beauty that we may overlook or forget. The walls will casted with concrete flora fossils while glass panels will be pressed with flora to be used as screens and sunshading.
Plaster Castings
Floral Plaster Castings by Rachel Dein
Experimental Mock Up
Material Board
Pressed Dried Botanics
Pressed Flowers by Artist
Pressed Flowers by Artist
Dried Botanics in Glass Sreens Mock Up
Dried Botanics in Glass Sreens Mock Up
Dried Botanics in Glass Sreens Mock Up
Over time, the musuem visually morphs architecturally as it grows and environmeltally as users start to mark their presence and identiy. As oppose to fossiled flora, can these flora be living and breathing in the glass and walls, thereby slowing growing and engulfing the architecutre?
Structure
Truss System
To achieve a continuous frame with minimal physical barriers for visual and physical porosity, a truss system is used to achieve long roof spans. a deep truss is hidden in the middle while the roof tapers outwards to mimic a thin slender exterior frame.
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