ART GARDEN

Your premise is a space primarily made for research and display of painting. This focus avoids the problem posed by the competition (at least as posed). You describe going underground to extinguish site and sound. Actually, the contrary may be more true. Fire and onions are offered at the outset, then dropped. I simply don't get it. Next time try to address the problem more directly, use the site context, program brief and competition brief as constraints, they are there to help! Charles Eames once said he never met a constraint he did not like!