Lachlan Welsh

Analogous (from within)

The new museum project by Lachlan Welsh draws on Aldo Rossi’s proposal for the Campo di Marte redevelopment and presents to us the transformation of the existing MAXXI museum into a factory for interpretation, production and exhibition.

Employing the curatorial strategy of partitioning, the design utilises mass-produced generic fragments created within the purpose built ‘Rossi factory’ to create a new architecture within the MAXXI. The five representational galleries of the museum perform as a container for Rossi, creating a relationship that is established via the gap; the space between MAXXI container and Rossi architecture. These new exhibition spaces are constructed through screens and platforms that are offset and lifted from the walls and floors of the galleries and meet existing walls through intersection, rupture and convergence. The mass production of form is further emphasised through the thinness of materiality of the screens, platforms and columns.

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-Review (excerpt) by Jessica Liu