Museum of New Fiction

Museum of New Fiction

Wong, Chun Kit (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Schoonderbeek, Marc (mentor)
Jennen, Pierre (mentor)
Milani, Stefano (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

2020-07-01

Architecturally, axis is a reasoned attempt to connect spaces of monumental value, including memorials, political offices and religious buildings. Through my theoretical research based on various literature and case studies, including that of Baroque Rome and Paris, it is evident that axes bear certain characteristics and influences especially in shaping perspective and facilitating movement. It appears that pertaining to visual perspective, axes bear influence in one or more of the following ways: 1) Centrifugal perspective, 2) Contained perspective, and 3) Centripetal perspective. Importantly, it shapes the ways a city is viewed and symbolically perceived, and is an important architectural tool for the planning of a city. Upon closer inspection of the topic, the study of the perspective in the axis presents and interface with the field of scenography. The research into the theory, phenomenon, and historical understanding of the perspective will bring about new information in the project. In the city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the invasion of the Tsarist government resulted in the intrusion of Western ideologies into a predominantly Asian city. One of the prominent interventions was the presence of clear axis. However, through fieldwork and in observing the urban fabric of Tashkent, it appears that the axes largely deviate from how axes commonly are like in previous case studies. While other case studies reflect the ways axis shape perspective as mentioned above, many axes in Tashkent do not bear such characteristics. As such, this graduation project draws on the observations and study of such deviations to derive learning opportunities and apply it to a new architecture. The intended outcome is a design of a monumental architecture that has a regional impact for Tashkent and its position on the New Silk Road.

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Student theses

master thesis

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