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MOCCA Museum of comic and cartoon art - Cultivated gutters
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MOCCA Museum of comic and cartoon art - Cultivated gutters
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25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
The
future new MoCCA, whose aim is to educate the public about comic strips
and cartoon arts but also to collect, preserve and display them, will
be settled at the corner of Norfolk and Delancey streets in the Lower
East Side district of Manhattan, New York. It will be built in the flat
10 000 square foot corner lot where, centuries ago, there used to be
orchards and farms. That is why we propose to transform former
cultivated lands into cultivated gutters.Our
cultivated gutters project is thus based on the historical context of
the site. But it is also a literal transposition of the three acts Greek
tragedy principles.The first act is the
beginning of the visit. Visitors enter the MoCCA “ in medias res ”, that
is to say “ in the middle of things ”.The second act, known as
the rising action, takes the visitors from ground level up through
different stages where they discover the contents of the museum in
different “ incidents ”. Each incident is built on top of another one,
so that the visitor does not lose interest. A climax is reached at the
end of this act. The visitor will be stunned by the last floor, a huge
and luxuriant roof garden where he will be invited to look down into the
city of New York “ story ”.The third act is,
obviously, “ the end ”. After the climax, comes the resolution of the
crisis, followed by the denouement on the way down, when visitors can
have another perception of the space design they have just experienced.Comic
strips are made of icons such as the text and the pictures. The most
basic icon is the panel and it is the one which inspired us. By placing
the panels in a sequence, the author voluntarily makes ellipses, chooses
to leave some things untelled and to reveal only parts of the story. We
thought it was interesting to translate this idea in the project.With the cultivated gutters
project, we propose a different interpretation of the comic strips by
exploring its “ gutters “ between its panels, and not the panels
themselves. The project thus makes use of the “ imaginery space
(gutter) ” between the panels as a space to get around and expose.The gutter is a timeless
frame where a second can last forever, a meaningless space where one can
invent whatever he wants. Usually seen as only white useless part of
the comics, these gutters now have a use and a meaning.As
for the three dimentional panels, they do exist as well and contain
lecture halls, theaters, class rooms, offices, etc. They are held
together by deconstructed gutter spaces with different platforms where
we can expose. These spaces will be filled with cartoon characters and
superheroes, all from different worlds and yet all belonging to the
comics universe.
future new MoCCA, whose aim is to educate the public about comic strips
and cartoon arts but also to collect, preserve and display them, will
be settled at the corner of Norfolk and Delancey streets in the Lower
East Side district of Manhattan, New York. It will be built in the flat
10 000 square foot corner lot where, centuries ago, there used to be
orchards and farms. That is why we propose to transform former
cultivated lands into cultivated gutters.Our
cultivated gutters project is thus based on the historical context of
the site. But it is also a literal transposition of the three acts Greek
tragedy principles.The first act is the
beginning of the visit. Visitors enter the MoCCA “ in medias res ”, that
is to say “ in the middle of things ”.The second act, known as
the rising action, takes the visitors from ground level up through
different stages where they discover the contents of the museum in
different “ incidents ”. Each incident is built on top of another one,
so that the visitor does not lose interest. A climax is reached at the
end of this act. The visitor will be stunned by the last floor, a huge
and luxuriant roof garden where he will be invited to look down into the
city of New York “ story ”.The third act is,
obviously, “ the end ”. After the climax, comes the resolution of the
crisis, followed by the denouement on the way down, when visitors can
have another perception of the space design they have just experienced.Comic
strips are made of icons such as the text and the pictures. The most
basic icon is the panel and it is the one which inspired us. By placing
the panels in a sequence, the author voluntarily makes ellipses, chooses
to leave some things untelled and to reveal only parts of the story. We
thought it was interesting to translate this idea in the project.With the cultivated gutters
project, we propose a different interpretation of the comic strips by
exploring its “ gutters “ between its panels, and not the panels
themselves. The project thus makes use of the “ imaginery space
(gutter) ” between the panels as a space to get around and expose.The gutter is a timeless
frame where a second can last forever, a meaningless space where one can
invent whatever he wants. Usually seen as only white useless part of
the comics, these gutters now have a use and a meaning.As
for the three dimentional panels, they do exist as well and contain
lecture halls, theaters, class rooms, offices, etc. They are held
together by deconstructed gutter spaces with different platforms where
we can expose. These spaces will be filled with cartoon characters and
superheroes, all from different worlds and yet all belonging to the
comics universe.
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