1998.2 - Aquarium Bilbao
Abstract
Design work from the 1998 fall semester, Studio Martin Price, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Arlington. Aquarium. Chy-tseh Che, scheme one, and Dani Alsina-Tora, scheme two. An eddy or circular movement of water becomes the metaphor for an aquarium set in the river in Bilbao, Spain in scheme one. Spatial sequences flow from entry on land, through tunnels in the water, to ramps inside the aquarium. Scheme two is a landshape form in order not to be dwarfed by the adjacent Guggenheim. The ground is lifted up into the sky and the sky is brought down into the ground. The elliptical form of the fish tanks in both schemes are inspired by observing how fish swim in elliptical motion. Circulation surrounds the fish tanks at various levels, and the movement of people echo the elliptical meandering movement of the fish.