The Guggenheim Museum is a structure that is truly inspirational. Designed by the Frank Lloyd Wright, the museum invites 250 artists, architects and designers for the building’s 50th anniversary to imagine their dream visions within the designer’s Guggenheim Museum rotunda. The talented artists, architects and designers have come up with innovative ideas to breathe new life to the structure.
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N55, a Danish architecture firm, sees the Guggenheim as an example of architecture created to support the strategies of the concentrations of power. Hence, they suggested an interesting idea that was to ask visitors to bring an "antipower kit" that would allow them to demolish parts of the building. According to the firm, the kit could comprise of tools such as explosives or soil and plant seeds. They wish to transform the building into dwelling for people, animals and plants.
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Another ingenious proposal was that of Hariri & Hariri Architecture. The New York-based firm came up with a scheme that they call the "outside-inside." A tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright's desire to build the Guggenheim in a natural setting, the Hariri & Hariri Architecture has imagined the rotunda as an outdoor space covered with trees, vines, plants and grass. The face of the ramp will be connected to one-inch-thick recycled fiberboard ribs at an interval of one foot. Each rib is cut in an organic profile with images of greenery printed on both faces, creating an ephemeral image of being in a park.
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Dutch architecture firm West 8 has suggested a forest inside the institution. They plan a mossy fern meadow, which stretches from the base to the top of the rotunda with a linear interior park, and 100 upended logs the height of the atrium. This unusual design would not only improve the aesthetics, but will also help in improving the environment.
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Via: Designboom
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