OFFICE 204

Doha Art Mill takes the notion of an archetypal marketplace as its structure. This building's fundamental decision is suggesting the parking lot as a core of the museum. This is a public and contemporary space where people can freely meet, which brings a new urban and vivid life to Doha’s port development. The roof is a fragment of urban space - cars, galleries and bars populate a seemingly endless universe. Together they make the Art Mill into an “art hub”. The roof only covers half of the site, to make a well-working densified place, still big enough for any idea of artistic expression. Underneath the roof, a newly created public square invites the public to rest in a protected and beautiful environment. The new Art Mill has a simple build-up. The column, ramp, warehouse and silos carry the roof. The mill building is mirrored by the main interior art space - the warehouse. The debris of demolished buildings forms a hill of rubble. The shortcut from the roof makes the spiral column. The different buildings are proposed as simple incarnations of recognizable types. The mills stay open and monumental - a veritable asset. The warehouse is a stacked type of enfilade spaces - the silos mirror image. The rubble hill acts as a found object able to catch solitary projects. The spiral is the equivalent of the fluid, accessible ‘kunsthal’ space.