It may not be your first instinct when entering a building to consider how it makes you feel, but architecture has always had a significant impact on emotions. Different spaces are designed to evoke different feelings in their inhabitants; offices can make you feel energized and productive, art galleries can make you feel thoughtful and curious, and museums can make you feel calm and intrigued. Each of these spaces is completely different from the others and is far more than just a building.
As part of a series of annual architecture competitions, the Museum of Emotions competition tasks participants with using architecture as a tool to evoke different emotions. They are asked to design a museum that includes two separate halls that elicit contrasting emotions—one inducing negative emotions and the other inducing positive emotions.
Participants are free to choose the specific emotions they wish to evoke through their designs—fear, anger, anxiety, love, happiness, laughter, and more. The purpose of the Museum of Emotions is to use architecture as the primary medium for creating emotional states through careful consideration of spatial scale, circulation, color, lighting, and material choices. As this is an ideas competition, participants are free to choose any site location, real or imaginary, as well as the size of their structure.
Museum of Emotions 9 is the ninth edition of Buildner’s silent competition series, in which participants must communicate their ideas without the use of any text. The design concept and the thinking behind it must be conveyed solely through visuals.
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