What was this project about ?
This project was about designing a temporary foyer / entrance area for a temporary Christmas museum lasting up to 4 months.
The brief required to design the foyer based on a personal opinion about Christmas. So, my stance towards Christmas was, I love it so much as it is right now, which is distorted and bombarded by commercial marketings. However, at the same time, I know it is not quite truth of it as well.
The foyer conveys this binary position of mine about Christmas.
'Love it but accept that it is not true.'
structure study models
1:50 final model
ground level plan (left) / top level plan (right)
CONTRAST BETWEEN THE FANTASY AND THE REALITY
The main hall of the foyer gives you to experience a typical Christmasy market environment.
At the top floor, in the middle of the museum exhibition, visitors have to go outside to go down to the basement level to keep their journey for the exhibition. At this point, visitors experience something strikingly different atmosphere.
This is the point when they would realise they are on the structure which maintained the fantasy of Christmas. It is cold, dark and silent unlike to Christmas.
perspective sectional drawing
'Truth behind the fantasy of Christmas'
'Once you realise the truth, it becomes really uncomfortable'
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