M+ / HAHN Design

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Text description provided by the architects. M+ is a building located at the resonating border/liminal space where heterogeneous urban elements such as super-luxury residential skyscrapers, dilapidated low-rise housing, houses converted into offices, and offices that double as residences all collide and interact. M+ is a process of discovering the ever renewing relational possibility within this liminality. Like the primal vitality of the colossal black obelisk in the movie 2001:A Space Odyssey, M+ is also a process of unearthing hidden life forces in this urban desert, or like the forest spirits of the animation Princess Mononoke, it is a process of dematerialization as the awakened genius loci with so many tentacles dissolves the mass of urban concrete. Also, M+ strives to restore the relationship between nature and human beings that has been lost in the desolate urban environment. This is done by uncovering and pulling visual corridors for nature into the site.