Marker
PHI's broad view connects past, present, and future.
It resonates with a pluriform, complex, and inclusive consciousness. Immersion into its spaces unlocks paths toward new directions. The marker - a construct tasked to pivot bodies in motion - underpins the design's concept. The building directs our dynamic bodies. It proposes an experiential framework for spatial and temporal navigation, stimulating cross-pollination through juxtaposition and wonder. Taking cues from navigational stone piles erected by indigenous peoples, as from masonry construction methods of early settlements, we conceive of a spatial array through the simple act of stacking.
Filter
As a platform for contemporary art, PHI is connected to the world while offering space for reflection and distance. Its location at the edge of the old city beautifully balances the public and the intimate. The new building must open up to its surroundings but produce an experience of "being elsewhere." The material aggregation does not evoke nostalgia but the unknown. Volumes pack tightly along the street front, with few intriguing crevices. This transformative threshold affects everything and everyone that makes their way through. As you move deeper into the site, the space opens up, revealing new dimensions.
Labyrinth
The bold assembly of volumes produces not a recognizable whole but rather a porous fabric with labyrinthian qualities. Without overly defined routes, visitors are free to explore. An ambiguity of exterior and interior and an open-ended form allow for a multitude of journeys, readings, and interpretations. Curiosity is triggered by varying width, direction, and orientation within the material order. The spatial organization heightens visitors' awareness and stimulates movement through light and darkness, form, and texture. Unexpected encounters and connections inform new hybridized ideas. The building is fully accessible for people of all abilities.
Void
Amid this dense plethora of spatial experiences, one can discover a sublime void. This otherworldly condition appears as if one steps into a parallel universe. Devoid of distractions, here everything is serene, muted, and soft. Its lack of definition offers total freedom for now and the future. The void triggers our wildest imaginations. The rest of the interior world is interspersed with a series of open shafts -"core drills", that connect to the exterior, yet never reveal the site beyond itself, to retain the otherworldly experience. The shafts act as programming spaces that can be activated and transformed by artists and curators throughout the life of the building.
Program
The program is organized with the more intimate programs - spaces for production, studios, and archives - lining the street, while more public programs are located deeper into the site. This "reversal" stimulates total activation of the building. Strategic sectional and planar juxtapositions and visual and physical shortcuts produce organizational "collision". These nodes pulse at intervals, sparking a dynamic network of activation and event. The new programmatic spaces are geometrically derivative of the old but deviate from their cartesian perimeter instead of direct connections between programs -- freeing the otherwise dedicated circulation footprint for more occupiable volume. Daylight trickles in between the volumes, offering surprising architectural moments. Lower levels are used for production, performance, and support spaces. Here the audience gets a feel for the sediments that shaped the sight over time.
Galleries
The mission of PHI requires an open and flexible infrastructure. This is achieved by offering a robust variety of spaces that alter in size, height, and access. Functionally, they remain relatively neutral and interchangeable halls. Art can be experienced and produced everywhere. Centralized galleries are connected, while a handful of decentralized galleries are dispersed throughout the building to show art at various intervals. PHI can easily change its organization to accommodate various temporalities, from permanent installations to an evening of events. This strategy creates a variety of microenvironments, thus achieving a different kind of flexibility, and allows curators to create a multitude of interwoven narratives. Since their circulation is flexible, the halls can be installed independently.
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