Designing A Museum In the Philippines As A Tribute To Filipino Graphic Novelist Mars Ravelo
One of Southeast Asia’s first comic museums, the proposed iconic Mars Ravelo komiks museum complex is poised to run and play at the undulating valley side of a 2.1-hectare site in Tagaytay City. The project aims to promote local arts and culture through comic appreciation and establish itself as one of the must-go destination spots and tourist attractions of the Philippines.
The komiks museum pays tribute to the well-loved Filipino komik graphic novelist Mars Ravelo. Inspired by the flexible constitution of paper, the dynamic geometric character of the gallery cores playfully settle across Tagaytay’s natural terrain and wonderment. Site plans were carefully crafted to invoke a child-like experience for each visitor to hop from indoor to outdoor back to indoor curiosities gleefully. Ever so delicately, a transition corridor welcomes its visitors to a thrilling adventure of superheroes, villains, and folklore fueled by the limitless imagination and creative expression of our own.
Celebrating Mars Ravelo Characters
As visitors traverse its adjacent tunnel, it feels like they are slowly being transported into a magical haven of superheroes and villains with a touch of Filipino mythical folklore. With the combination of transitional spaces from indoor to outdoor gardens and immersive galleries, the holistic museum experience is as dynamic and colorful as the pages of Filipino komiks. The museum will honor and translate the Mars Ravelo universe into a spatial experience with characters from Darna, Dyesebel, Lastikman, Flash Bomba, Captain Barbell, Bondying, Tiny Tony, and many more.
Rather than construct a single massive structure on the property, the komiks museum is fragmented into various core galleries scattered around the landscape, with each core constituting a specific state of paper inspiration. This playful composition invites users to outdoor gardens and back to indoor experience, breaking usual formalities that create a sort of exploratory relationship of museum grounds showcasing featured spaces like the Hall of Heroes, Bamboo Playground, Mythical Gardens, Open-To-Sky Amphitheater, Dyesebel’s Waterfall, Interactive Wall Sculptures, Tunnel of Villains, Souvenir Shop, and more.
Studio Shots
Sharing Fulgar Architects’ unique and meta-modern architectural design studio processes and considerations for Mars Ravelo Komiks Museum, from understanding site conditions, investment goals, planning, engineering, BIM technologies, interiors, and landscaping to construction recommendations.
