Art Pavilion M: The Port, The Stage, The Observatory

Art Pavilion M. is a museum of Land Art and Multimedia. We imagined the museum as a sequence of frames: The Port encircles a water plaza, to be curated and cultivated, where art can be displayed. Like a port, barges may dock its outer perimeter, and visitors can arrive by boat. It functions as a public space on the water and as a promenade to the museum. The Stage is the terrace of the museum. While performing as the day-to-day museum’s terrace, the platform can become a stage on water, a place for performances, concerts, or outdoor exhibitions.

The Observatory is a lightweight polycarbonate structure enclosing the exhibition rooms, reflecting and filtering the shades of the water and the surrounding vegetation. It is fully enveloped by a curtain where cut-out shapes allow light to filter through in different ways, creating a facade made by light, while the roof is covered in shells, filtering rainwater. A site-specific material research has been developed for the project, resulting in the Surf and Turf Terrazzo composites, with local species of shells and horticultural supplies.