Thesis statement

In the movie “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”, the hero keeps a means in the cabinet which can achieve his desires. The means in the cabinet can be awaked or slept by his necessity. That is, through the cabinet, he owns the time that he wants to preserve. As a result, he can control his time by keeping what he wants to realize. In this way, if I consider the cabinet as a unique space and the time as a history, I can think that the cabinet is a place which contains a history, and this is a museum.

My program is an about a history museum. History museums cover the knowledge of history and its relevance to the present and future. Therefore, the museum should maintain relationships between past and future in a continuous time. In my program, the museum is a space that preserves times has existed and offers it to people looking at it. This program started from some thoughts about extracting period times from an original flow of history, not only a concept of meanings but appearances. Finally, my program is a series of processes that pulls out the space from a continuous history, and put the fragments of times in it.

I could figure out that the axis of nature is a continuous space and the axis of the city is a flexible space, through the site analysis. The intersection of these two directions makes some distorted space. In terms of this concept, gap spaces will be made by between the distorting forms and existing forms, and these provide experiences to people that see the time of the inside from the out side. Consequently, the program can be diversified by several activities in my program – extracting, slanting and twirling. Additionally, there are indispensable studies about the scientific phenomena by distorting shapes. For example, the lights also could be the most important features in here, because space makes different effects according to lights with other circumstances such as color, materiality and time.