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Visual Arts Museum-
Galati |proposal hors concours for the Visual Arts Museum competition <
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The
museum is currently located in an episcopal house that has been nationalised
during the communist regime and it will be now returned to its owners. The
Museum and the Galati Cityhall held a competition for the relocation of the
museum in a park, on a plot now occupied by a deserted and decayed summer
theater that will be completely replaced by the new museum building.
The collection of the museum includes works of: painting, graphic art, sculptures,
tapestry and ceramic art.

THE FINGER-PAVILIONS MUSEUM| The common characteristics of these is the inter-action between the artist and the working material, using the hands as tools, whether is by holding a pen or a paintbrush, weaving or moulding... The concept of the museum is about this connection between the fingers of a hand that places itself on the ground, moulding it and thereby leaving its cultural fingerprints in the vegetal/clay/green material of the park. This imprinting of the natural space by human imagination creates the architecture. The form and texture of the ground is changed/influenced by this interraction of the two elements: man and nature (material). The fingers are set on a wide spread box ("hand").. The three finger-pavilions that contain the exhibition spaces are opened on the north side for natural lighting, and have also zenith light; they open also towards the main road through 3 screens that use translucent glass: they invite the passer-by to discover the inner space and establish a communication between the inner- cultural- parcours and the outside alleys of the park.





The two zones meet and intersect through the open glass facades to the north and by exhibiting works on the alleys of the park. In this way, the tree trunks and the sculptures become two different but similar ways of expression, in different interpretations, of the same visible sensible reality. The inner space is open: the central vertical open space of the main box and the cross section of the pavilions allow continuous inside views from upper floors toward the galleries below.