case study volkan alkanoglu

SUCKERPUNCH COMPETITION

MUSEUM OF COMIC & CARTOON ART (MOCCA)

FIRST WINNER:

VOLKAN ALKANOGLU, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

BY: ASNIZA BINTI MD YUNUS A12DP0109

DESIGN 3 DDPR 3158

DIPLOMA IN ARCHITECTURE UTMKL



PROJECT brief

objective

“Collect, Preserve, Educate, and Display Cartoon and Comic Art”.

Museum is designed to promote the understanding and appreciation of comic and cartoon art as well

as to detail and discuss the artistic, cultural, and historical impact of what is the world’s most popular

art form but with the fantasies for the future of the museum.

http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/2010/08/15/museum-of-comic-and-cartoon-art/brief

SITEbrief



KEY PLAN

40.7172° N, 73.9897° W, Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, United States

Plan Picture: Google Map

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_East_Side



LOCATION PLAN

Located at the corner of Norfolk Street and Delancey Street, Lower East Side of Manhattan





SITE PLAN

10,000 square food vacant flat corner lot known as seward park urban renewal area and are currently

being used for open air parking. The site is heavily viewed from pedestrians and automobile passengers at

all hours of the day. The site is currently zoned C6-1 with a maximum floor to area ratio of 6.0, and 85’-

0” street wall limit and no height limit.

One

storey

Brick

bldg

Parking

lot





FIRST WINNER:


Architects: Volkan Alkanoglu Architectural Design,

Los Angeles, California

Project: Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art [MoCCA]

Location: 594 Broadway, Suite 401, New York



FIRST WINNER:


CONCEPT

“New York’s Future Sculpture and Light Illustration”

The building assumes an elegant, sculptural presence on its site and reflects to the illustrious lights of

New York City. The building will be a state-of-the-art museum that will also become a social, cultural

and economically generative architecture and a catalyst for thought and provocation in the amazing

world of Comic and Cartoon Art

http://alkanoglu.com/MoCCA-Museum



If we imagine the

“Futures” we need to

search for new allies,

territories, objects and

technologies which we

have dismissed.

-volkan Alkanoglu-

If we imagine the “Futures”, we need to search for new allies, territories, objects and technologies

which we have dismissed, abandoned or never fully embraced thus far. It is important to question the

current programmatic elements, understand new social structures, discover spatial alliances, re-read

materials, understand advances in technologies and a visual fixture within it.

http://archinect.com/features/article/125518443/touching-base-with-volkan-alkanoglu



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SPACES

1 Reception

2 Administration

3 Courtyard

4 Representation

5 Production

6 Exhibition

7 Education

8 Circulation

9 Library

10 Café

11 Conference

12 Outdoor Terrace

13 Retail

14 Cloakroom

15 Loading Bay

16 Main Entrance


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SPACES STRATEGY

1 Reception

2 Administration

3 Courtyard

4 Representation

5 Production

6 Exhibition

7 Education

8 Circulation




Alkanoglu design situates the formal exhibition space in a cantilevered box, atop a sculptural ground

floor that is articulated by mechanistic forms. The building touches the ground decisively allowing for

a seamless flow from interior to exterior and up through the exhibition space. The juxtaposition of

space is provocative of the solemn yet lively nature of Comic and Cartoon Art. Rendered in black, the

design defies what we’ve come to know as museum with a stimulating proposal that is reflective of its

content

http://www.evolo.us/architecture/the-mocca-museum-competition-volkan-alkanoglu/

JURY COMMENTS



Julia KOERNER: This projects shows the most potential for a new type of a museum for comic and

cartoon arts. Its giving the visitor the possibilities to explore interesting mashine like spaces and the

feeling to be in the interior of a giant robot, makes this project exiting. Especially the diagrammatic

section shows an interesting relation of the ground floor with the clear organic figure and the upper

floor in the box sheltering the continouing figure. This juxtaposition creates an interesting positive-

negative, interior-exterior relationship.

Alexander PINCUS: Sensous, mysterious and compelling both in presentation and design.

http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/2011/01/16/mocca-museum-nyc/#more-10978



Peter ZUSPAN: While burdened with cryptically graphic overproduction and privileging a seemingly

sinister late science-fiction side of the genre that may be a little too one-sided, I appreciate the basic

section of the building; the combination of the playful sculptural treatment of the underside with the

stoic cantilevered gallery spaces. I also enjoy the idea of black as a triumphant alternative to the white

box…a monochromaticism that can present just as stable a backdrop to what is hopefully an

exuberantly eclectic and colorful collection.




Brennan BUCK: The board is

tough to decipher, but there is

just barely enough information

to make it out as an actual

building proposal. It’s a

compelling one, not just

graphically. The spaces have a

dynamism that fits the

program, even as they are

squashed by the gallery box

above. The plan looks

workable, even if the exploded

drawings are opaque.


Exploded

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