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Masters Final Design Portfolio

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The Synaesthetic Museum looks to find a harmony between the visual and aural perceptions in architecture. Using light as the architectural generative tool creating a form which exemplifies the relationship between the form itself and the aural qualities it can create.

Studying the play of light caustics and sound, the museum heightens ones awareness of the essential role the human senses plays in the built environment. Applying how light can evolve into inhabitable spaces, the museum will attempt to redefine how people occupy the built environment through sound not only the typical visual aspects, hence experiencing a homogeneous correlation between the volumetric qualities of both light and sound.

Through its purely generated design, the museum will feature a striking presence in itself as a modern work of art. The environment and experience becomes as beautiful as the artwork that the museum displays, through its heavy intertwining with the display spaces and light.

The ice and water become complimentary, as the water reflections enhance the spaces. Ice forms the delicate undulating walls, physically ice becomes a boundary, a protection from the outside, but visually there is no boundary between outside and inside. There is also the light that comes through the ice that indicates a lack of boundary and would make its presence felt on the inside. Light becomes the key in the design of the museum, with an emphasis on both refracted and reflected caustics through natural light.