by Arquine | @arquine
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Project’s name: K11 Center for Culture and Art
Architects: SO-IL
Web page: www.so-il.org
Surface: 10,000 m2
Location: Hong Kong
Photography: Kevin Mak | Chris Provoost
Date: 2017
Produced in collaboration with the CTF (Chow Tai Fook) Collection on Victoria Dockside, the CTF Museum is intended to provide a public home for the Cheng family’s impressive art collection, as well as featuring traveling exhibitions from various contemporary art institutions.
The museum’s architecture is driven by the challenges of its unique setting resting atop a K11 Art Mall and beneath a dozen stories of luxury waterfront residences. The museum combines the top two floors of the podium, originally designed for retail and other food and beverages, with a generous rooftop sculpture terrace that features the magnificent Hong Kong skyline as a backdrop.
Although glass is considered a fairly conventional building material, it plays an important role in an unconventional response to the project context: a museum that is located in a mixed-use environment and adjacent to commercial spaces. Museums are generally closed volumes that avoid engagement with an often hyper-urban environment. Our design simply embraces transparency to engage the museum within a commercialized city space.
The floating museum is surrounded by a facade of 475 glass tubes, each 9 m high and one meter in diameter and weighing two tons. From the street, the sculptural monumentality and visual distortion of the glass create an abstraction that distinguishes the museum from its densely urban context. Above, the glass makes its content clear to visitors and introduces fun patterns of reflection and light. The enormous transparency offers a respite to visitors arriving from the hustle and bustle below.
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