A row of large and strange constructions that are unevenly spaced among the trees, The Tjibaou Cultural Centre designed by Renzo Piano, dedicated to Jean Marie Tjibaou who got assassinated while leading the fight for his country’s freedom from the French Government in 1989. The Kanak culture has experienced some violent moments with the French Government, to search for their lost identity within the French territory. It is devoted to the origins of the culture and searching for the identity of the native Kanak people of New Caledonia. By using haptic architecture within its architectural form, Renzo Piano desires to regain the balance between modern culture and traditional culture by capturing certain relationship with the French Government.
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Although the structure has a very simple shape, the ten structures seems like soldiers that is protecting the native culture, and the viewers can see it is trying to express the relation between the present Kanak independence and the previous French colony . The cultural centre can be said it is a monument or a symbol for the Kanak tribes to be protected, their own method for the Kanaks to hold onto their identity when moving into the 21st century. Renzo Piano had to consider the construction being a symbol of the Kanak civilization. The Tjibaou Cultural Centre had to resemble the pureness of the Kanak Culture to the foreigners that their memories would pass onto their …show more content…
In Noumea there is an already establish museum, built during colonial times, which now houses and displays mostly traditional artifacts. Many New Caledonian artifacts of significance are also held by museums such as the Australian Museum in Sydney, and the British Museum in London. It is to these institutions that Kasarherou refers in his discussion of loans. The important point is that, in the absence of historical objects, most contemporary cultural centres in the Pacific are orientated towards the contemporary and the future in terms of cultural representation. Tjibaou Cultural Centre has put New Caledonia directly into the global setting for its high and historical culture. At the same time the very magnificence of the structure can be intimidating despite the obvious attempts to produce user-friendly and functional areas . This building easily overpowers the human occupants with the structure being based on Kanak architecture, and of course with its much enlarged scale. How much of a user friendly cultural centre, devoted to living Kanak culture could be. Is this building a monument, aiming for the place at a world table just like the, Sydney Opera House and also aiming to gain the world’s attention? The answer to this question is not simple. I believe Renzo Piano intentionally built
Although the structure has a very simple shape, the ten structures seems like soldiers that is protecting the native culture, and the viewers can see it is trying to express the relation between the present Kanak independence and the previous French colony . The cultural centre can be said it is a monument or a symbol for the Kanak tribes to be protected, their own method for the Kanaks to hold onto their identity when moving into the 21st century. Renzo Piano had to consider the construction being a symbol of the Kanak civilization. The Tjibaou Cultural Centre had to resemble the pureness of the Kanak Culture to the foreigners that their memories would pass onto their …show more content…
In Noumea there is an already establish museum, built during colonial times, which now houses and displays mostly traditional artifacts. Many New Caledonian artifacts of significance are also held by museums such as the Australian Museum in Sydney, and the British Museum in London. It is to these institutions that Kasarherou refers in his discussion of loans. The important point is that, in the absence of historical objects, most contemporary cultural centres in the Pacific are orientated towards the contemporary and the future in terms of cultural representation. Tjibaou Cultural Centre has put New Caledonia directly into the global setting for its high and historical culture. At the same time the very magnificence of the structure can be intimidating despite the obvious attempts to produce user-friendly and functional areas . This building easily overpowers the human occupants with the structure being based on Kanak architecture, and of course with its much enlarged scale. How much of a user friendly cultural centre, devoted to living Kanak culture could be. Is this building a monument, aiming for the place at a world table just like the, Sydney Opera House and also aiming to gain the world’s attention? The answer to this question is not simple. I believe Renzo Piano intentionally built