Bilbao Guggenheim Museum: Formal System Or Arrangement
Final Paper on the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum
Formal System or Arrangement The museum was below the level of the city, which, given that it’s in the center of a geocultural triangle, makes it seem like the cultural foundation of the city. This idea is further supported since the museum was supposed to “let the inhabitants take their city back” and “get back their civic pride.” 1 There were steps that lead down to the entrance of the museum and in front of the entrance was an empty space called the atrium, which was “a giant halfway house between the inside and the outside.” 1 The implication of this was that art and culture do not end upon leaving the museum but continues even when the person is out in the city.
Inside, the museum was said …show more content…
To the north, the museum empathized with the wave-like motions of the water through the fluid shapes of the building. Figurative silhouettes, specifically “a cruise liner, a metal flower with silvered petals, and a fish with the head and tail chopped off” 1 could be observed when certain parts of the museum were separated. The image of the ship connects with how the area where the museum now stands used to be a shipyard. This image also connects to the large gallery inside the museum that was shaped like the hull of a ship. The flower connects to the time while Gehry was designing the museum, when he said, in the video, that the different parts “developed in their own term,” 1 sort of like a flower blooming in its own …show more content…
But there are two pieces of architecture separate from the main building that complete this image. These are the office building, which creates the image of the chopped off head, and the tower that looks like the fish’s tail. The elevators inside the building’s atrium connect to the image of a fish because they were said to be like fish going upstream.
The materials and shapes of the building connect to the galleries and artworks found within. For the galleries with classical works, the outside was made of stone and was either square or rectangular while titanium was the materiel used for galleries with rounded forms. The titanium used to cover the building was in the form of metal sheets that made the building look like it was covered in fish scales, thus adding onto the image of a fish.
Issue of Non-Functionality and Frank Gehry’s
Formal System or Arrangement The museum was below the level of the city, which, given that it’s in the center of a geocultural triangle, makes it seem like the cultural foundation of the city. This idea is further supported since the museum was supposed to “let the inhabitants take their city back” and “get back their civic pride.” 1 There were steps that lead down to the entrance of the museum and in front of the entrance was an empty space called the atrium, which was “a giant halfway house between the inside and the outside.” 1 The implication of this was that art and culture do not end upon leaving the museum but continues even when the person is out in the city.
Inside, the museum was said …show more content…
To the north, the museum empathized with the wave-like motions of the water through the fluid shapes of the building. Figurative silhouettes, specifically “a cruise liner, a metal flower with silvered petals, and a fish with the head and tail chopped off” 1 could be observed when certain parts of the museum were separated. The image of the ship connects with how the area where the museum now stands used to be a shipyard. This image also connects to the large gallery inside the museum that was shaped like the hull of a ship. The flower connects to the time while Gehry was designing the museum, when he said, in the video, that the different parts “developed in their own term,” 1 sort of like a flower blooming in its own …show more content…
But there are two pieces of architecture separate from the main building that complete this image. These are the office building, which creates the image of the chopped off head, and the tower that looks like the fish’s tail. The elevators inside the building’s atrium connect to the image of a fish because they were said to be like fish going upstream.
The materials and shapes of the building connect to the galleries and artworks found within. For the galleries with classical works, the outside was made of stone and was either square or rectangular while titanium was the materiel used for galleries with rounded forms. The titanium used to cover the building was in the form of metal sheets that made the building look like it was covered in fish scales, thus adding onto the image of a fish.
Issue of Non-Functionality and Frank Gehry’s