MUSEUM OF THE THIRD KIND

The timeline of history, always moves in a linear direction, with a set direction of moving forward, but when presented in a museum, the moment in history that it represents comes to a standstill. It is static as a frame of time but like a moving swirl in itself in the sense of all the information it is expressing comes in as an artwork having its own rhythm and movement that adapts and develops into a dynamic artistic vortex.A modern museum’s archive management requires an extensively flexible core and an intelligent system to create more creative catalogues for diverse artists and artworks. How the collection has been classified reflects how the curator reads and understands the different artworks and interprets or expounds it to the visitors.
To deal with frozen moments and adaptive use of space we are using disks of a grid to simulate the properties of some collections, and the random or specific permutations and a combination of shifting disks. This stimulates more possibilities in both the space and the form. It also inspires us to embody it into a formal language to handle our physical museum and a frozen moment of the developed art history.
The Museum Building form has been derived from the Digital Archive System. The Archive is composed of circular disks each disk having its own properties. These properties are based on the categories in which the archive has been organised. These disks help the user to shuffle through the art in their “Catalogues” which can be seen as overlapping or merging of different categories. The catalogues are custom created according to the entered parameters say time or theme and the disks rearrange themselves and present to the user the desired artworks.
The building form itself can be seen as a catalogue of exhibits that it holds inside of itself. It is part of the whole larger system of “Catalogues” which includes catalogues from Museums all around the world making a global digital archive.