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These images are essentially investigating into the structures of the museum. Obviously the materialities of the various building volumes are crucial and deciding the heights of interior museum space. Right now, I making the main museum block's western facade (to the centre of performing arts) of mostly frosted glass windows, floor to ceiling in all galleries with moments of clear glass framing small views into the gallery to the public. The exterior condo facade to the street (east) then would be of a similar language but with bigger aperatures. The two interior facades facing one another need to I think have a skinning or cladding- which continues to allow in light. I think wood screens might even contrast well against the hyper colours of the temporary exhbition building volumes... more working out is necesary however.

I decided that the laid condo tower couldn't be placed on the permanent museum space-- it was too imposing and the "permanent" program had to be broken up. This series shows how they could be propped in the air and their structure filter people into the museum lobby from the Avenue of the Arts. I started playing with the structural members supporting both the gallery spaces and the condos- if they are of the same steel support language that they can best define the negative space of the lobby/ event space in between that links the four building together.

The relationship of these two volumes- one higher and one lower- recreate one my earlier design schemes. If the two structures were joined together at varying heights they could support other volumes like that of the temporary exhbition box and energize the museum interior courtyard overhead.