St Petersburg - Navigating the city
The OMA Barbican exhibition was quite inspiring.
I decided to trace my steps back a little and complete some of the things I have been talking about.
The Museum is about consumption and OMA's video of their 3,400,000 images made me realise how hard it would be to ever consume them all properly.
The scale of the museum is more like a small city than a large museum. But if its a city it should be navigable like the City. The Hermitage has a similar amount of artefacts to the OMA's images.
If one had just 12 hours to visit the museum, surely they would want to make it worthwhile.
on average a person spends 15seconds on an image - at this rate it would take a solid year to view all of the hermitages artefacts. - I could never really fathom this until seeing the video above.
Currently the Hermitage museum experience is dictated by the form and the curator. The visitor is 'forced' to spend time looking at potentially uninteresting artefacts.
- The controlled visit
If the museum took on similar principles to the City, it would allow a much freer and self guided visit.
The Doughnut vs The Readable Labyrinth
Confinement vs Freedom
Limited vs Unlimited
I therefore decided to bring the museum into the city of St. Petersburg. - With some inspiration of OMA's NAMOC Museum design in China, I Identified 3 main circulation systems.
The Main Arteries, The Enfilades and the Labyrinth
A navigable labyrinth, giving the visitor the choice to be guided or chose to get lost and drift in the mosaic of collections.
Enfilades create sudden vistas and moments of clarity
The labyrinth - meandering, spontaneous routes which visitors can chose their own path
and their own quite corners for solitary contemplation.
Using google earth and capturing vies of the city, I overlaid them with a sketch which have actually started to resemble some interesting museum spaces which relate (and are found in) the 3 routes of circulation mentioned above.
Can produce some really nice images from these, the next thought is whether I actually integrate the museum within the city or simply use it as a study to design the museum.
