Ragunath Vasudevan
Museum for Bionics in Wiesbaden
The Bionics Museum is envisaged as a space where the confluence of two seemingly parallel lines of intellectual development is achieved. This idea comes from trying to produce a space that would react to the interdisciplinarity and relevance of bionics. At the root are the fields of biological research and robotics which emulate themsleves in various aspects of contemporary lifestyle such as prosthetics, biomechanical engineering, cognitive biology and cognitive computing.
The design thesis begins with a geomatric extraction and development from the modifications of the flying butress as built in medieval gothic churches. A parallel study of the Aronoff Centre for Art an Design, Cincinnatti By Peter Eisenmann was used as a code for the transformation in the geometric system. The flying butress was used as a starting point for defining a frame and the effects of framing in architecture. This was exemplified with the logic of the fram as: structural, visual and organisational tool.
The programme of the museum responds to these aspects by having three flows of movement that are independent of each other and yet visually connected facilitated by the framing system. The building is seen as a morphed landscape on the site.