Musings in Plan

This is the main street level I am working on right now- to start to analyze how the entrance demarcates itself to the plaza and how the interior courtyard is programmed. The temporary gallery is framed time and time again by the other museum buildings and the materiality of the framed volume against the other musuem volumes will heighten this contrast.

I want to use the structures f the looming condos and the permananent galleries and admin of the museum to create a relationship to each other whilst accentuating the more spontaneous nature of the corridor of space in between these volumes... terminating at one end with the projection screen and at the other, a framed view of the "temporary exhibition" building. I thought about having a hanging garden of sculpture too in this corridor or even the possibility of a circus school as extra program with tight rope walkers the length of the corridor.

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I started to work out what is happening one level under street-level. Essentially, placing the orange lounge makes sense because thsi program is active by night and need no daylighting. The glow of light coming from below will serve as an attraction and hidden gem to the plaza- and there should be light emananating above through the open patio and sunken courtyard. It also makes sense because it locates the orange lounge and bar close to the parking with valet and facilitates coming to the bar after the museum has closed. I started to think that perhaps having a darkroom photo studio or public gallery space close to the orange lounge would be a good idea too when I recall the vernissages I have been to in Toronto and Montreal and how they are really thrown as a big party and add to the lounge atmosphere as well as how they reinforce the "comtemporaryness" I am trying to build in corridor between buildings.



I thought about connecting the temporary exhibition to the permenant exhibition on the top level so that visitors who paid for the temp exhibition could travel back through the rest of the museum collection or leave directly too.



This was purely to help me start considering the heights of things.