The Museum Garage is located in Miami's Design District, which is why its clients turned to architect and curator Terence Riley to design an unusual look for it. He invited three architectural firms and an artist to participate, and a fifth of the façade was designed by his own firm, K / R.
The seven-storey building made of monolithic concrete with shops and cafes on the ground floor is designed for 800 cars. The actual architectural and engineering design of the garage was made by specialists in such structures TimHaahs. The five other participants were each responsible only for their part of the facade. Riley's proposed scheme for their collaboration is inspired by the surrealist game of cadavre exquis ("exquisite corpse"), when each of the participants added one word in a sentence - or part of a picture, not knowing what they had invented before and after it. In the case of the Museum Garage, the architects and the artist were given complete freedom in the design of their fragment of the facade.
The WORKac New York bureau's "ant farm" is closer to the corner where it borders the work of Berliners J. Mayer H., then hide behind a perforated screen - depending on the point of view.
J. Mayer H. und Partner's façade is named XOX, an abbreviation for hugs and kisses at the end of the letter. It fits in with WORKac's work like a jigsaw puzzle. The sleek shapes and vibrant colors are reminiscent of car design and seem to float above the street.
French artist Nicolas Buff, who lives and works in Tokyo, worked on the garage entrance and exit section; he called it Serious Game. At street level, there are four seven-meter caryatids - they, like the entire design of the facade made of metal and plastic, reflect the author's childhood "love" for video games and Japanese cartoons. They, along with serials of the Tokusatsu genre and manga, are combined in the project with Buffa's other hobby - Baroque and Rococo architecture.
Clavel Arquitectos were inspired by the revival of abandoned buildings formerly characteristic of the Miami neighborhood of the garage through design and architecture. Their Urban Jam showcases a similar recyclability: the façade is covered with car bodies painted in gold and silver paint.
Part of the façade opposite the Institute of Contemporary Art, by K / R, is inspired by Miami's roadside landscape, in particular the orange-and-white railing that covers the wall. In fifteen "windows" are placed huge boxes for plants protruding like consoles.
Recall that there is another famous garage in Miami -
1111 Lincoln Road, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
