"life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein -
The building is about experience, personal one.
according to Bernard Tschumi, architecture is to be experienced, and could only be experienced when space, event and movement are interrelated.
Thus architecture is to express how space, event and movement are interrelated.
Therefore sequencing is critical to engaging space it's users, as it generates a relationship between time, space and movement.
just like riding on bicycle.
The building takes analogy from the essence of cycling. The sensation could only be experienced when one is riding on one.
human perception, perceive from 5 senses or 7 senses (as - per Juhani Pallasmaa), the most immense one I would say, is the one that denotes total emotional experience - about gravitational resistance.
spatial concept derives from the nature of bicycle riding - movement.
the building is about sequential movement. spatial articulation ensures circulation clarity, provides extensive horizontal and vertical movements...kind of depicting experience in bicycle riding, the routes are diverse, flexible and spontaneous. The environment and architecture delineate spatial freedom and provoke imagination.
the ramp bridge connecting the 2 buildings and the slanted gallery floor intend to provoke awareness of the often take for granted gravitational force.
Environment and Technological Response
1. Maximum use of daylight, glass curtain walls provide visual connection with outdoor, abundance dayligth fro retail space and galleries instead of conceal static conventional galleries
2. Flexible space for progressive adaptation
3. Passive design where upper floor provides shade and thermal buffer to the lower floors
4. Cross ventilation and stack effect
5. Bike Walls is the billboard that draw in visitors and customers.
