Exhibiting Fungi:
Altered States of Museum Typologies
... an intermediate unit
Altered States of Museum Typologies
... an intermediate unit
Unit: Undergraduate Option Studio
Site: Epping Forest
Date: 2022 - 2023
School: Architectural Association
... with Jessica Reynolds
Site: Epping Forest
Date: 2022 - 2023
School: Architectural Association
... with Jessica Reynolds
In this project, students focused their efforts on formulating architectural proposals for a new Museum of Fungi in Epping Forest. Starting first by designing a logic of architectural obsessions, students translated these formal ideas into architecturally rigorous and legible interventions. Students were encouraged to engage with spatial, material and atmospheric strategies as a way to question the role of contemporary museums in the context of environmental emergencies. Working with a set of existing buildings in Epping Forest, the students’ interventions challenged ideas about adaptive reuse and the function of the contemporary museum by producing new models of engaging audiences, accessing collections and interacting with the natural world.
