Automobile Museum by 3GATTI

Automobile museum in Nanjing.

It is difficult to identify one single and continuing exploratory theme in the work of Francesco Gatti. His aim is to experiment with heterogeneous solutions, each time meeting the challenge offered by his new creation’s specific conditions

From the ethereal virtual ceiling of the redevelopment project “In Factory” – his first Chinese work – to the curved forms of the Ze Bar, from the sculptural faceting of the Red Object to the spotted epidermis of his transgenic houses, the architect with Roman origins has never let himself be bound by a specific or recognisable aesthetic style.

 The same applies in the winning project for the new car museum at Nanchino where Gatti has envisaged an origami on urban scale.

 

http://milimet.net/2010/06/automobile-museum-by-3gatti-architecture-studio.html 

This project makes an abstraction of the orgami technique, the art of  folding paper into shapes representing objects, this technique use the fragility of the paper how it make a simple sheet turn in to a structure and then an object, it sitll look fragile not just because of the material is  also because of the hole meticulous process it has to go thru. 

The interesting thing about this project is how is built using  the stetic part of the origami technique and how it made look fragile this building even if has a completely  robust structure inside.

to buil a robust space  and make this building look still look even