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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

Project Description

 

Design Objective

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Concept Development

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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

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