Anschel

queer quaker commie cat

In addition to the blurb above, I'm a recovering mathematician, Jewish, and autistic as fuck--those didn't alliterate

Sometimes I write poems, mostly in English and Spanish

I feel weird putting my age in my bio but I am in fact a Grown Up if you were worried

רעד מיט מיר ייִדיש

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anschelsc@gmail.com

belarius
@belarius

Design by Yingfan Zhang & Xiaojun Bufor (lead architects) and Zhenwei Li, Jiahe Zhang, Lairong Zheng, Bo Huang, & Leilei Ma (design team) for Atelier Alter Architects, completed in 2019.


pervocracy
@pervocracy

I think it's kind of interesting that spaces like this are often described as feeling "inhuman," when they're characteristically human. Nobody looks at this photo and wonders for one second if this is a beaver lodge or a natural cave. Casting engineered materials into straight lines at geometric angles is an exclusively human thing!

What the space lacks is the forms and materials of any other species. There's no wood, no textiles, no plants, and no textures or colors evoking them. It's uncomfortable because it's too human.


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in reply to @belarius's post:

I'd love to visit this museum someday. I found some other images online that show how the lowered area changes as you move around the room, but the whole building looks really interesting from an artistic perspective.

As much as I've given this humorous tags poking fun at the austerity of this style, I definitely recognize that there's something extraordinary about architecture that aspires to provide an experience to those who move through it. In a way, a natural history museum feels like the most suitable kind of museum to take swings this big; if I visited an art museum with this heavy a hand, I'd feel like the architecture was competing with the artwork to some extent. Here, the super-clear delineation between the fossils on display and the geometry of the space makes each easy to appreciate on its own merits, independent of the other.

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