Museum of Exchange

Museum of Exchange

99 Bowery, New York, NY

Settled in within Chinatown the Museum of Exchange exploits the latent rituals within the Chinatown, specifically the studies of the nature of the honored tradition of wrapping the goods that are being exchanged and purchased in red, a symbol of luck.  This modern day translation of commodity, exemplified by the proliferation of the red bag and the color red represented the connection to a cultural and neighborhood identity that was innate in the prior object studies. The Museum of exchange also seeks to reveal the nature of commodity of the objects in both the marketplace and the museum share characteristics that the users may not be immediately aware of and other latent conditions by displacing and juxtapositioning the objects and spaces against one another, hopefully bringing these relationships to the forefront, such as the items on display as an object of art while the market speeds behind the other side of the wall.  The nature of the wall is the decodifier for these interactions and relationships to occur. At a local and global scale within the building, the wall reveals the inherent properties of the objects it contains, while contrasting them against one another. It also acts as a wayfinder through the space for the displaced user. The user in many ways becomes like the object, displaced and reoriented based on the weaving of the wall throughout the Museum.

Market Rituals within Chinatown

Performative Tasks of the Wall Between Programs

Market Exchange

Ritual Exchange

East West Section and Ground Floor Plan

North South Section and Second Floor Plan

Market Displacement within the Museum

Ritual Displacement within the Museum

Massing Model

Conceptual Massing Model

Conceptual Model of the Wall

Initial Studies Regarding Ritual-Object to Ritual

Initial Studies Regarding Ritual-Ritual to Object

Museum of Exchange-Abstract Studies

Initial Studies of  Taxonomy and Organization

Adjusting the Grid, Abstract Studies

Filling the Grid, Abstract Study

Taxonomizing Repetition

Bowery Boys

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File Sharing [dropbox] and Store fronts

Hello Studio Mates!

I’ve set up a dropbox account at https://www.dropbox.com/ please check your email for the log on name and passsword.

 Also http://www.nychinatown.org/storefronts/index.html   has photos of chinatown store fronts!

 

EDIT

Hey guys!

So Trevor came up with this BRILLIANT idea that some of you might find useful!

I think it would be a great group effort if each person could sign up
(for free 2 gigs!) for their own drop box account. I (and Eliza) will
invite all of you to the incomplete taxonomies shared folder, called
(shared_studio). In that folder you will find the rhino folder, ai
folder, dwg folder and so on.

**So if you haven’t done so already please if you could upload any of
your tasks from model making, site plans, site sections to the
incomplete taxonomies drop box that would be GREAT!**

This is a great way to share maps rhino models and stuff that each of us do!

[You can always just log on to the inocomplete taxonomies drop box
with the password and add that way, but I know people like Parker
already have an account!]

Martha Rosler

Jewish Museum Object_Ritual_Taxonomy

Data Flow

Hello fellow taxonomers!

This is a GREAT book for visualizing data and a great resource for the future as far as diagramming, and it is currently on SALE at Amazon. Just click the image and happy buying!

The Jewish Museum- Global Dispora

Pin Up Monday January 25, 2010