ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 448
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Fri Oct 16 09:58:34 PDT 2009
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NAGASAKI ART MUSEUM
by Botond Bognar
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The Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum in Nagasaki, Japan,
is one of Kengo Kuma's most successful designs in an
urban setting.
In this project, a small canal with flanking pedestrian
promenades runs between two interconnected sections of
the complex, bringing a part of the nearby sea, the port
area, and the public realm of the city into the domain
of the museum.
The building opens up to this intimate, in-between urban
space, both visually through large glass surfaces on the
first floor and physically by means of additional
entrances to the museum. These secondary entrances can
be approached through shaded arcades, zones defined by
the extension of the vertical stone louvers that
populate the facades along the canal.
Of City and Sea
This major museum houses a large collection of artwork
and artifacts, much of it dating back to an era, during
the Edo period (1603-1868), that saw Nagasaki as one of
Japan's only points of contact with the outside world.
The project is located on a landfill site on the Port of
Nagasaki, and it is bounded on the remaining three edges
by busy roads. A canal bisects the museum, and
pedestrian promenades hug both banks, putting the
water's tidal fluctuations on full display to the public.
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