Museum for the
DIA Art Foundation
Pratt Institute, Design 301, 2011 Spring
Critic: Greg Merryweather
Program: Museum
Location: Redhook, Brooklyn NY
Project Partner: Qian Chen
The intend of the project was to question the relationship between program and circulation with regards to the public visitors and the staff members that co-occupy a single unified museum setting. The museum is a result of two large gradual vertical stepping movements that forms a continuous museum circulation. Elevating steps and narrowing walls that hint the break between different galleries separate spaces yet maintains the fluidity of the gallery experience. Uniformed structural frames that rotates along the museum circulation also emphasizes the invisible relationship between the physical building itself and the metaphysical movement that occurs within its form.