Wessel Kruidenier

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Museum in Motion: An architecture for art

This project considers the redevelopment of M HKA, the museum of contemporary art in Antwerp. Instead of following the brief by demolishing an existing courthouse building, two blocks down from the current site, and building a new museum, this project takes on the existing museum. This building, which has grown from a squatted 19th century warehouse, is inherently part of M HKA’s identity as anti-museum. 
The existing museum is placed in relation to both industrial structures and the cathedral, which can be characterized as large ensembles of different parts that have developed over time and are able to accommodate different alterations, by either adding or removing parts. Similarly, the proposed museum will continue to grow, or shrink, in different phases and thereby becoming not a static institution, but an anti-monument that is able to respond to changing societal, political, financial or institutional changes, in which the state of incompletion becomes part of the building.

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