CHICHU ART MUSEUM

Architect Tadao Ando, Naoshima Japan

BBSC 403: Matthew Colson

MUSEUM THEMES

The Museum is built underground with a series of dark transitional paths between, gallery spaces and day-lit atrium spaces. Heavy exposed concrete walls typical of Tadao Andos work. Form is used to create the perception of depth, with light penetrating the darkness to highlight individual spaces. Contemplate light from the side of darkness, in a celebration of darkness rather than light.

Tadao Ando: In my forty years as an architect I have been looking for my own matrix of space, which in my imagination is an obscure place like a cave surrounded by thick, heavy walls of earth, or a space of darkness lit only with a dim ray of light. The museum was intended, (physically and mentally), to be visited with light as a guide.

LIGHT & ART

James Turrel exhibition (above)

Claude Monet exhibition (above)

Walter De Maria exhibition (above)

Lighting is a fundamental theme in the museum, with exhibitions by James Turrel, Claude Monet and Walter De Maria.

ANIMATION THEMES
THEMES Camera Motion & Music
Emphasise the museums two distinct characteristics of dark transitional paths & lit exhibitions and day-lit atrium spaces. Music builds a sense of mystery/suspense in the search for light, while a sense of calmness/melody in light. Dark transitional spaces create sense of airiness & discomfort/suspense. Emphasise the search for light, drawn towards light which is penetrating darkness, anticipation to reaching the light source.

THEMES Building Animation

Guided by light (formation of paths/stairs is to be animated in lit atrium/gallery spaces) Perspective (obscured corridor spaces) Materiality (concrete structure, surface penetrations)

THEMES - Lighting
Light exposing materiality (monolithic concrete structure, surface penetrations). Light exposing form (sun-path, theatrical shadows). Light as a guide, light penetrating darkness (in dark transition spaces).

Opening Scene
Opening scene stares into the opening of a dark passage. Create a sense of tension and suspense as camera moves into darkness. (Small interruptions where introduction text slowly fades in and out, overlay/fade still shots which explain the location).

Observe glow at the end of a long passage and movement towards it in anticipation. Note camera does not travel the full length of the passage in one frame but instead fades between locations, once music has set the mood for the transition from darkness to light (suspense to tranquillity).

Open Roof Atrium Space

Stair-case will form/grow from the ground up, and camera will follow the spiral motion up the staircase. Movement towards the dark passage then fade out. Only a short transition to light.

Opening Scene
After short, quiet moment, fade into open roof passage scene. Sun-path and cloud movement to be animated and then, accelerate toward next passage entrance once overcast and sky is dull.

Travel into dark long passage

Central Atrium

Suspense during movement through the dark corridor in anticipation of the exit into a day-lit atrium space.

Central Atrium

Stationary shot of sun-path as stair-case forms/grows from the ground up. The camera will then climb up to second floor entrance into the next dark lobby space. Then transition into the Walter De Maria gallery space.

Walter De Maria Gallery

Zoom in on sculpture and track sun-path. Fade out.

James Turrel Gallery

Fade in with mood remaining consistent with previous scene. Track sun-path, glare and animate cloud movement.

Closing Scene

Slow build up to the much anticipated transition from dark depths back into open daylight. A series of two-three still shots fading in and out. A tranquil moment of contemplation in appreciation of a Tadao Andos masterpiece before final fade out.

CHICHU ART MUSEUM

CHICHU ART MUSEUM

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