BenningtonArtCommunity

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Bennington Museum, siting aside on the hill, is the live record of Bennington region, and it is the museum of the arts and histories which constantly renovating itself as the progressions of the times. As more and more artworks are stored, the gallery and the storage are asked to be enlarged at least as twice as present status. This project will utilize art renovation as the methodology and provide a new perspective for viewing architecture and its relationship to art ground, and the space, striving to design an extension for the Bennington Museum: Deflection + Bennington Museum. It would as well represent the enthusiastic attitude of embracing the diverse arts in the next generation.

Art plays an essential role in Bennington people's daily lives. In this small town with fewer than 16,000 people and an area of 42.2 square miles, countless artworks are displayed as outdoor sculptures, galleries, or preserved in the museum storage. The annual outdoor sculpture show has just made its 24th birthday and endows art's vibrancy for the 24th time in Bennington. People are adapted to living with the artworks in their daily lives, and letting them be part of themselves.

Redefine and Art Studies

REDEFINE and ART STUDIES

The Field

The Object

Spacial Systems

Inward

Outward

Sculptural anatomy works in combination with artistic facade give the artifact architectural connotation, renovating with Bennington's art community culture and the landscape.

The architecture works as the medium of inward and outward division; one reform the limited space, the other changes the perception of infinite space.

Look! The facade reassembles how we perceive the outward spatial system, which integrates and reform the site, and becomes one new piece of artwork.

My artistic experience begins at first glance, gradually to the steps on the site, and finally to the museum itself and the artworks inside.

The interior walls give me an immersive feeling of art. The geometric angles are working naturally for some reason and adding excitement when perceiving the art pieces inside!

Walking inside a sculpture and reevaluate the original work inside give me multiple levels of art appreciation.

Physical model materials and the production process full-color powder-based 3D print; MDF stacking; painting; plastering with the image; gluing.

Fixed axis

Deflect in one axis

Deflect in two axes

Deflect in connection

Deflect in three axes

New Composition

"The First Sieve is the Truth"

A short film that discusses the world composition, and the role of the architect between the characters of a politician and a thief.

Director: Molin Liu

Screenwriter: Mengyao Dina Lin, Molin Liu

Production Designer: Mengyao Dina Lin

2019-2021

As I transfered to the major of archtiiecture in freshman year, I try to find the role of being an architect in this world. Screenwriting is another way that I express myself. I co-wrote a short film “The First Sieve is the Truth” and was its production designer. The film tells a story between the head of the Bureau of Press and Publication and a thief to illustrate the truth that ordinary people perceive are the truth politicians want people to perceive, instead of the real truth. Finding the meaning of being an architect has led me to think about the linkage between the cause and effect in this world, and what really determines the truth to people’s lives. Now, as a fifth year architecture student, I think architect has the opportunity to make decompositions of the world and generate recompositions, taking real actions and fighting for the over-administrative from politicians. Architecture is restricted in many ways by politics, but architects also stand for the social responsibilities in-between the overarching and the grounding.

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