From delivery the aspirations of ‘decision’, ‘digest’, display’, and ‘database’ commence, whilst avoiding ‘destroy’. By creating a mammoth database of information which then transfers itself into the public domain for research, acceptance or rejection, starts the process of retain or removal. How much could/should the public decide?
By cataloguing and allowing the public to have their say in their interests to these objects, we allow the building to respond to the ‘types’ of artefacts. Buildings which glow with light to display objects whilst others are almost cocooned to protect from the light or public touch.
Our proposals aim to provide a new type of building programme separate from the current museum systems. A truly interactive system of supply and demand. Accommodating scientific and educational research and also for those that are also ‘just interested’.
Buildings shift and weave, describing the journeys of artefacts, deliberately offsetting from the city grid and ‘exploring’ the site.
Complementary activities such as community resources, artists studios and artists rental accommodation would generate funds to the project. A type of ‘foyer’ building to the creative arts, a place of work, live and play.
There is also a lecture/film theatre (hence the angled auditorium and canopy entrance to the north-west), scientific labs, seminar areas and research stations.
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