Parkitecture

Skatepark and Art Museum/Gallery in Central Park of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

This project studies the connection between Architecture and Sculpture, how they have borrowed from each other’s languages, influenced each other’s expressions and intertwined their domains.

The Modern art museum/gallery and Skatepark are inserted in the less developed north-western area of the park. This area already has meandering paths shaped by people in a less rigorous, curvilinear fashion and are the metaphor for the sinuous paths followed by the skaters.

The Skatepark is treated as an element of inhabited sculpture, which will became a dynamic, ever-changing exhibit that becomes part of the artistic experience offered by the Museum/Gallery complex.

The design seeks opportunities for the two elements to interact and influence each other. The skaters become part of the artistic experience for the people inside the museum, for their dynamic activity to become an ever-changing display that will offer infinitely unique and varied experiences for Museum’s visitors. In turn, the Museum will have a section dedicated to skateboarding art. This will provide an outlet for the artisitic creativity of the skateboarding subculture and will create opportunities for its members to be exposed to other artistic experiences.