September 29, 2003

East Coast Tour (1) － Milwaukee Art Museum

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As you already knew, Can, Auntie Juny, "TaipeiJay", and I made a tour to some cities on east coast from 3 Sep 2003 to 20 Sep 2003. I would like to share the pictures and stories of the tour with you. Hopefully it won't take me too long to finsih this series of stories.
(Left: Quadracci Pavillion of Milwaukee Art Museum)


We went to Milwaukee Art Museum on 4 Sep 2003, mainly for the Quadracci Pavillion, an addtion to the existing museum building(s), designed by Santiago Calatrava and is his first US project.

The Quadracci Pavallion is right beside Lake Michigan which serves as a good natural setting when the building's gesture reminds you of "the tail of a whale" or a boat (look from the lake side.)

One of the most amazing features of Quadracci Pavillion is the sunscreen (the "whale-tail" part) which provides shade to the interior of the museum and would be lowered and "expand/rise" again at noon.

There's an exhibition INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH DESIGN- How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World going on when we visited. I couldn't take photos of exhibition, but you could see the picture of one of the most famous Brooks Stevens' creations- Oscar Mayer Wienermobile below.

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Posted by CL at September 29, 2003 12:59 PM
Comments

oh yeah!oh yeah!oh yeah!oh yeah!oh yeah!

Posted by: taipeijay at October 1, 2003 12:56 PM

阿一是不是付了$15元門票 心想要拍個撈本ㄚ

Posted by: at October 5, 2003 01:01 AM

抱歉
問個爛斃的問題
那個「翅膀」是隨著什麼條件在動的？
時間？太陽？……

爛斃問題2
那這「翅膀」是如何驅動及支撐的？

（哀！真的不看書很久了）

Posted by: 俗肥油 at October 6, 2003 08:58 AM

不是回答(一): 為什麼大家覺得像翅膀, 只有我覺得像鯨魚尾巴? (題外話...)

那個翅膀, 在我們參觀時只有在中午會放下, 然後立即再度舉起, 其餘時間都是展開的. 我想博物館關門時, 翅膀有可能是收起來的. 雖然說這對遮陽翼是為了替大廳天窗遮陽而設計的, 不過我猜它完全展開時, 應該可以有效的阻擋西曬(剛好是東西向), 因此可以悠閒的完全張開, 展現他最完美的姿態, 不需要動來動去. (以上純屬猜測, 錯了不負責...)

這個翅膀"據說"是由旋轉軸鋼管及其後的大廳骨幹鋼管支撐(然後力量再傳遞至下層的其他結構...)
至於驅動則是靠液壓裝置推動連結翅膀的環管...

Posted by: CL at October 6, 2003 05:17 PM

題外話(二): 不是為了 $15 門票撈本, 是為了 $150 的記憶卡撈本... ^++++++++^

Posted by: CL at October 6, 2003 05:35 PM

鯨魚尾巴？
可惜他似乎像是兩片翅膀這樣擺動
而不是像鯨魚尾巴那樣上下
不然更好玩

畢竟
模仿鳥類的多
模仿魚（動作）的就比較少囉

Posted by: 俗肥油 at October 9, 2003 05:12 PM

不是肥羊嗎??? 什麼時候改名字了???
我是指完全張開時, 看起來像鯨魚尾巴, 算了, 找不到知音... :p

Posted by: CL at October 9, 2003 05:22 PM

肥羊？

Posted by: 俗肥油 at October 10, 2003 09:02 AM

畢竟
鯨魚不會像那樣動的

或者
要到現場才會有不同的領悟和感動

Posted by: 俗肥油 at October 10, 2003 09:03 AM

咦? 誰是俗肥油???

Posted by: CL at October 10, 2003 10:30 AM

俗肥油 你是MAX嗎? 我想不出適合這各名字的朋友

Posted by: juny at October 13, 2003 01:17 AM

我第一次在現場看也覺得是鯨魚 不是嗎??

Posted by: juny at October 13, 2003 01:19 AM

喔!
抱歉
您認錯人囉

Posted by: 俗肥油 at October 14, 2003 01:31 AM
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