The Temple of Hilma

Location: Finland
Status: Proposal
Program: Museum
Design Team: WAO Architects
Project Designers: Che-Kuang Chuang,


Hilma af Klint was considered as the pioneer of abstract arts and her abstract works had been placed years ahead of artists like Kandinsky and Mondrain who traditionally seen as the pioneers of abstraction. In this proposal of the Temple of Hilma, we try to extract the unique geometrical compositions from her works and through the series of transformation, try to apply it into the spatial layout of the scheme.
At the beginning it is started from three simple circles which can be seen in her painting as kind of symbols or signs. Through transforming the radius of the circles, the geometry has been intersected with each other, and comes out some interesting spaces in between. Once it extrudes from the 2d drawing and transforms the volume from 2d object into 3d object, the scheme has become the fundamental spatial-unit of the Temple of Hilma.
The spatial-units play the role as the major structure of the scheme. The concrete tubes are designed with the heavy-walls to bear the loads. Through this structure system, the interior becomes one fluent space which has no isolation and meanwhile, the spatial units also play the significant property of the space. They could be part of the gallery spaces that not only provide the oriented circulation, but also shape the space with her unique sense in geometry.
Through this series of geometrical manipulation and application, eventually this scheme presents the unique characteristic of her abstract arts and manifests itself as a new landmark of the surrounding.

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