ARCHIPELAGO
Archipelago is a visionary of how museums in the future would look like. Rather acting as purely a gallery, it encourages scientific advancements by housing modern laboratories with a humanistic design. While still retaining the fun factor when visitors transverse through various spaces and galleries.
“The Future of Architecture Lies in the Harmonic Coexistence between Humans and Nature.”
Archipelago’s design concept is based on the tropical rainforest that has stood for more than 130 million years, hence it is fair to say it’s one of the most prominent identities of Malaysia. Massive treelike structures represent the tree canopies & biodiversity of the jungle. The pentagonal tensile canopies symbolizes the petals of our national flower, the hibiscus. Other than that, organic-shaped building blocks & open plan design emphasizes the feeling of randomness found in jungles. While the surrounding greeneries diffuse into the building blocks as a whole.
Full-height glass is widely applied throughout the blocks to provide a wider vision & pleasant experience to the visitors. Wood fins provide privacy while keeping the existing interaction between internal and external spaces. Also acting as a sun shading device, natural daylighting penetration and regulation is achieved through the fin gaps. Treelike structures surround the building blocks and are interconnected with linking bridges to form observation decks and for the means of transverse without the need of getting to the ground.
