The picture seen above is the birds eye view (Photo taken from GoogleEarth) of our building site for our museum project. It is nestled in a small community beside an medium sized High School. Although the area seems relatively quite, the location of 185th in proximity to the sight creates a louder than average noise level that minimally detracts from the West side of the school. However, the East side of the site is beside the Aloha Church of God, which creates an unexplained stillness away from the activity on the West side of the lot. Because of the location of Aloha High School, both the road and the community experiences busier surrounding roads while school is in session, September-Mid June. However, taking into account all of the above, the lot still remains relatively still and untouched. I'm more than curious to see what would happen to that area if someone did actually build one of the proposed museums. I would be most curious to see the churches reaction because of just how close their proximity would be with the new establishment. While there is a limited ammount of space between the walls of the schools and the building site, there is even less of a space between the Aloha Church of God and the building site.
Seen above is the set up of the buildings within the immediate area. Personally, I feel Aloha High School and the church are the only two buildings really of significance. The small houses in the community in the community are unimposing and mostly inconspicuous. Aloha's high structure seems to dominate the view from the west completely. In turn, the church from the East also is experienced in the visual aspect from within the site itself, but it is much less imposing and also seems shabby and simple compared to the neighboring Aloha High School. I feel the architecture of the meseum itself would have to be visually very intimidating if it hopes to compete with the grandios size and brick-and-rock-structure of Aloha High School. However, in my opinion, I would like to take my building plan and actually do the opposite. I would like it to not try to compete with anything in the neighborhood but instead be an aspect of the community you have to search for to find. It itself would be part of the metaphor of the meseum, which in the last five minutes I have seem to mentally stumble upon. Andy Warhol himself relished consumerism. The placement of the building, in the middle of a community that obviously takes part in consumerism, would have greatly appealed to him. But I would like to take it one step further and place the very structure of the building embedded into the Earth, so that the museum itself would be deep within the ground that makes up a community that grew from dirt into a successful suburb. This metaphor, however, would be much more subtle and unapparent compared to the metaphor that correlates more accurately with everything Andy Warhol was. I have an idea as to what that metaphor is, but as I have no quite completely established it, I don't really want to write about it in this post until it is more refined. So, with the completion of this post I am going to go do more research on Andy Warhol. I am truly greatful I picked him because I am only now beginning to realize just how interesting is, and how easy and fun it is going to be when I use his life as my inspiration for my museum.
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