Los Angeles County Museum of Art Competition

In Architecture

Posted: Aug 5th, 2009 / Last Edited: Jun 1st, 2010 Print

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Through this project, which defines a new organization of site circulation and landscape, we explored the changing role of the museum through architectural language. The organizational overlay weaves LACMA’s series of disconnected buildings into a singular, cohesive campus. This new connective tissue integrates the existing site with potential future development, connects isolated sectors of the museum, and makes space for new galleries.

Blurring distinctions between building and landscape, the gardens and the structural pieces develop in parallel as strands of movement on the site. The landscape and the urban façade become sites for exhibiting art so that museum visitors along with pieces of art from the permanent collection flow outside to “roofless galleries.”

Based on LACMA’s efforts to stimulate interdisciplinary dialog among its encyclopedic collections, cross-stitches in the circulation routes allow curators and visitors to forge new connections between pieces. In response to the contemporary development of hybrid artistic genres, the texture of flowing landscape and architecture promotes fluid circulation, and engagement with art from multiple perspectives.
Through this project, which defines a new organization of site circulation and landscape, we explored the changing role of the museum through architectural language. The organizational overlay weaves LACMA’s series of disconnected buildings into a singular, cohesive campus. This new connective tissue integrates the existing site with potential future development, connects isolated sectors of the museum, and makes space for new galleries.

Blurring distinctions between building and landscape, the gardens and the structural pieces develop in parallel as strands of movement on the site. The landscape and the urban façade become sites for exhibiting art so that museum visitors along with pieces of art from the permanent collection flow outside to “roofless galleries.”

Based on LACMA’s efforts to stimulate interdisciplinary dialog among its encyclopedic collections, cross-stitches in the circulation routes allow curators and visitors to forge new connections between pieces. In response to the contemporary development of hybrid artistic genres, the texture of flowing landscape and architecture promotes fluid circulation, and engagement with art from multiple perspectives.

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