Pixelation
A New Andy Warhol Museum for Tokyo Tokyo, Japan
Design Studio Project Spring 2021
In our design, we refer closely to Warhol’s vast body of seriality and repetition in his print work to create a museum that allows the display of multiples of both artworks and viewpoints. Reflecting the analytical diagram from the artworks, the façade is layered with three-dimensional pixelations and framed to indicate the inner program from enclosed galleries to public atriums with opaque tiling and glazing system. By penetrating the façade modules inside, the extension and enlargement of them are organized in an indented manner to figuratively interpret the diagonality and to divide spaces into smaller volumes, which could be used for independent exhibitions and special media rooms at the interjunction between lobby and galleries. This oscillation between the fields and figures fuses the spaces and provides clues for how the color and light would integrate into them.
With a tint color, yellow, we emphasize the curvature within volumetric enclosures and public passages, resulting in spotlighting visual movements along with the surfaces inward and the tourist circuits. Hues of yellows are controlled to create a spatial hierarchy and distinct auras with dense orangish shadows in open areas, which also turns into a less vibrant illumination in exhibition spaces. The rest of the space is filled with different shades of white, where the simplicity of the color is used to highlight the potential shadow qualities generated by the complex geometries.
