
Museum of Emotions competition brief: Design a museum that includes two separate spaces that bring out contrasting emotions – one inducing negative emotions, and the other inducing positive emotions
Use architecture as the primary tool to create an emotional state, in this case “awe,” through consideration of the scales of the spaces, the journey through the space, colour, lighting, and material choice
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urbanAWE [Museum of Emotions Competition]
East Los Angeles College - Architectural Design 385: Directed Study
Professor Orhan Ayyuce - Winter 2022 | Year 2, Semester 1.5
AWE = an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful
[what inspires] AWE:
views [esp. of los angeles/
natural environment juxtaposed
with built environment]
animals
kindness
bravery
music
architecture
trees
beauty
AWE [looks like]:
surprising
unexpected
radiant
exploding
uplifting
elevating
expansive
gravity-defying
[LA River =
brutalism |
concrete sculpture]
[NancyRubins’| exploding gravity-defying massive]
[parasitic architecture]
[LA love]
[bird of paradise] official flower of City of Los Angeles