Beijing-based Mad Architects has introduced that its design for the Fenix Museum of Migration in Rotterdam will shortly open to the general public.
Commissioned by the Droom en Daad (Goals Come True) Basis, the challenge is the primary artwork gallery to make migration its central theme.
The 8,000 sq m constructing is positioned inside a 16,000 sq m warehouse on the Katendrecht peninsula. This was as soon as the most important of its type, and was owned by the Holland America Line, an organization that transported tens of millions of migrants from Europe to America.
The museum’s centrepiece is the Twister, a staircase within the type of a double-helix that rises from the bottom ground and bursts by the roof, the place it ends in a viewing platform that seems to hover above the town.
Ma Yansong, Mad Architects’ founder, stated: “Once we have been requested to work on Fenix, we knew we needed to create a dialogue with the prevailing constructing and its environment – and with a previous containing so many tales of migration, recollections and uncertainty.
“The Twister is all in regards to the future, however it’s rooted up to now. For me, it’s a metaphor for the journeys of migrants who handed by this constructing.”
The museum will open to the general public on 16 Might.
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