Contemporary Art Museum

Instructor - Russell Thompson
Partner - Nupur Shah

Given the studio brief, we investigated the interiority of the museum as a container of difference. In the same way, that a museum curates a collection of different works, so too does this museum curate a set of different types of spaces and the different ways to circulate between them. Our project is best described by the term, embedded. By this we mean that one form of interiority (the bars) are embedded into the larger volume of the base building. Embedded for us, is a distinct condition of interiority, and the condition that takes place when a change is made. We began with two primarily different conceptions of space and volume: the field space of the ground floor, and the more individuated, linear spaces of the bar volumes above.