Urban Design - Analysis of Nanjing China

Side Project--a Fine steel and woodworking company--custom

dare I say, "Floor plans"?

understanding experience.

---panning for gold---

everything is plane and obvious

it is infront of you always

but you have to get into it and 

play with it to understand

-get dirty-

When you enter the space, 

how do you experience 

a sifting, moving and revieling?

-like the stream, the light flows past the exhibits deep 

within the space. As you sift through the spaces, layer by layer, 

the light baths you, allowing a progression. Finally, by the noises 

and clanking of machinery--like the clunking of panning--

the exhibits provide you with the basic knowledge of kinetic science. 

You are given the gold nugget of knowledge and experience.-

How do people move 

through the space?

 

-like the sifting of gold panning the people 

slide back and forth in circulation and 

they are poored into the spaces.

The METAphor

Now is the time to speak of the building idea-- 

not construction though.

The museum for Children is:
"a place for children to move, interact and learn about the world they live in"

which is like the act of:
"metaphorically Panning for Gold by bending down and sifting water and rock"

The building design and experience will 

undoubtedly magnify this ideal 

&

manifest in form, shape experience and appearance.

Question:

    How do you experience the process of panning and uncovering or unvieling?

Answer:
-   by getting into the space and objects

-   seeing and understanding

-   moving through lots of information

-   seeing different contrasts (heavily) and textures

-   repetitive