Quick! To the Art Cave!
source: http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=87606_0_23_0_C
-
-
- her_factory
- added this
So, imagine that one day you find yourself sitting on your 17-acre plot of land in Napa Valley, California, and you're, like, "WTF. I have too much priceless contemporary art to fit in my 1887 original farmhouse. I know...I'll drill a 4,500 sf tunnel through my hillside vineyard and put my art in it! La!"
Apparently, people like you exist in this funny world of ours. Behold:
"Taking advantage of economical cave-drilling technologies developed for the local wine industry, the Art Cave is conceived as a large-scale, passively conditioned, subterranean space. The site is beneath a north-facing slope formerly terraced for prune orchards. The spaces of the Art Cave are designed to respond to and complement the domestically-scaled display spaces of the farmhouse. The inherently curvaceous geometry of the cave is exploited to create a space lacking the familiar architectural cues of corner, edge and detail. This zone of the middle scale is occupied by art. Inside the seemingly boundless space of the cave, the encounter with art occurs in a context unencumbered by traditional functions or associations."
Four words: art in a hole. I wonder what Plato would say about this...
Apparently, people like you exist in this funny world of ours. Behold:
"Taking advantage of economical cave-drilling technologies developed for the local wine industry, the Art Cave is conceived as a large-scale, passively conditioned, subterranean space. The site is beneath a north-facing slope formerly terraced for prune orchards. The spaces of the Art Cave are designed to respond to and complement the domestically-scaled display spaces of the farmhouse. The inherently curvaceous geometry of the cave is exploited to create a space lacking the familiar architectural cues of corner, edge and detail. This zone of the middle scale is occupied by art. Inside the seemingly boundless space of the cave, the encounter with art occurs in a context unencumbered by traditional functions or associations."
Four words: art in a hole. I wonder what Plato would say about this...
-
- groups:
- Art and Style
-
- tags:
- Art and Style, California, caves
