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Text description provided by architects. Designed at the same time as construction began in Victoria Toxide, the museum’s architecture is driven by the challenges of its unique structure: it is a K11 art mall and a dozen floors below luxury waterfront apartments. The museum combines the first two floors of the stage, originally designed for retail and extra food and beverages, with a generous roof sculptural terrace as its backdrop to Hong Kong’s magnificent skylights.
Although glass is considered a very common building material, it plays an important role in our unusual response to the project environment: a museum close to business spaces that sits in a mixed-use environment.
In general, museums are closed blocks that often avoid engaging with the urban environment. Our design simply embraces transparency to integrate the museum into its commercialized urban space.
The floating museum is surrounded by the facade of 475 glass tubes, each nine meters high, one meter in diameter and weighing two tons. From the street, the sculptural monument of glass and the visual decay create a summary that distinguishes the museum from its dense urban environment. Closer, the glass clarifies its contents to the audience and introduces a playful sequence of reflection and light. External transparency relaxes them as visitors come from the hustle and bustle below.
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