21ST CENTURY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, KANAZAWA, ISHIKAWA PREFECTURE, JAPAN

摘要

SANAA'S work is characterised by a persistent preoccupation with the rethinking of boundaries, their removal, blurring, and clarification. Their concern with transparency has created both a subtle phenomenal translucency and a highly effective process of diagrammatic reduction. As a result of the optical and programmatic translucency anticipated in a project such as the firm's Moriyama House (2005), the museum in Kanazawa succeeds in radically rethinking the relationship between interior and exterior volumes and spaces, between the room, the building and the city. The subsequent typological challenge of the museum, the transformation of the traditionally highly representative physical nature and programmatic inferiority into an extended yet delicate fragment of the city, the dematerialisation of the museum itself, can be understood as conditioned by tactical translucency and motivated by the convergence of opposites such as inside and outside, private and public, individual and collective, or programmatic and formal.