Art
Path
Location:
Newark
,
USA
Year: 2024
Type: Art gallery / footbridge
Collaborators:
Suzana Martins, Solveig Sandness
Publication: Mark Magazine (53),
Architizer
Initially conceived as a visitor centre for Newark, this project
proposes a symbiotic combination of art gallery and public garden footbridge.
By situating the gallery over the Passaic River, the design not only celebrates
the city's maritime heritage and connectivity while also highlighting the
river’s economic and urban potential. This project aims to enhance the city's
cultural, economic, and environmental value by blurring the boundaries between
private and public, permanent and temporary, indoor and outdoor spaces. The
introverted gallery spaces, illuminated by numerous skylights, are complemented
by carefully positioned windows throughout the building framing a number of Newark’s
landmarks: an architectural promenade inspired by Japanese principles of
‘obstruction and revelation’.
The first project draft was presented at the UIA in Tokyo 2011 and
featured in Mark magazine.