*컨템퍼러리 아트센터 [ Kengo Kuma & Associates ] Contemporary Art Center – FRAC

무형의 박물관을 만들다.

벽이 없는 박물관 -경계가 없는-, 박물관이 없는 박물관은

Alpes Cotes d’Azur의 현대아트센터가 지향하는 건축컨셉이다.

방문객을 비롯한 다양한 움직임들을 도시의 편린들로 연속시킨

박물관의 외피는 시티스케이프의 매력적인 파사드 디자인을 구현함으로써

아이텐티한 캐릭터를 생성한다.

Vincent Leblanc 도로변에 면한 본동은 전시장과 문서보관서가 위치하며,

오디토리움과 아이들 워크샵이 위치한 타워와 더블글래스로 마감된

브릿지로 연결된다.

그렇게 도시의 편린들은 모이고 흩어지고 연속되며 박물관의

고유한 캐릭터를 정의하는 디자인 매개체로 사용된다.

reviewed by SJ

The project of the contemporary art center (FRAC) for the region Provence Alpes Cotes d’Azur (PACA) is the 3D version of the “museum without walls” invented by André Malraux, famous French writer and politician. It is a museum without a museum, a living and moving place, where the art pieces are in a constant movement and join the logic of diffusion and interaction with the visitors.

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Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Location: Marseille, France
Architect In Charge Of Construction Site: Nicolas Moreau, Jean-Daniel Boyé, Frank Anderle, Loïc Lequertier, Pascal Ferrera
Architecture Team: Kengo Kuma, Yuki Ikeguchi, Nicolas Moreau, Louise Lemoine, Félicien Duval, Shinku Noda, Jun Shibata
Area: 5,757 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Nicolas Waltefaugle, Erieta Attali

Local Architect: Toury et Vallet
Structure Engineer: CEBAT ingénierie
Mechanical Engineer: ETB Antonelli
Facade Engineer: ARCORA

KKAA thought the FRAC as a signal in the city, which allows a better visibility to contemporary art.

The building stands up as a landmark which identity is clearly asserted.

It is composed with two recognizable parts:

-  The main body along the street Vincent Leblanc contains the exhibition spaces and documentation center

-  A small tower with auditorium and children’s workshop, offers an upper terrace on the main boulevard.

These two clearly identified entities are connected between them by a set of footbridges and are unified by the envelope made by an glass skin, composed with panels with changing opacity.

The building explores the theme of the windows and openings on different scales. KKAA wishes to create a particular space of creation and life, which action and effect is bounded to the entire city, as well as the surrounding district and neighborhood (cafe-terrace…).

from  archdaily