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ARCHITECTURE
T he Cistern, a for staging outdoor events or as
preexisting building additional covered gallery space.
made up of three The Haunted House, a preexisting
adjacent vertical building with its exterior covered
structures that were once cisterns for entirely in gold leaf offers a ‘domestic’
distillates, is divided into three rooms setting for specific works, and
with three interior ‘pulpits’ connected adjacent, the Podium forms the
to an exterior balcony. According center of the museum compound,
to Koolhaas, “Its configuration made up of a fully glazed, column-
suggests a precise industrial need free podium on the ground floor,
that now reads as a quasi-religious and clad in aluminum foam with a
environment.” bubbled pattern, is another gallery
space on top. Both galleries provide
The Cinema has bi-fold doors large, multi-purpose areas inviting a
and can be instantly connected to superlative showcase for temporary
the courtyard. Inside, the raked exhibitions and events.
seating can be converted into a flat
floor, allowing the space to be used
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