Islamic Art Wing Extension; Metropolitan Museum of Art Ascending the Minaret: a climb to the top of Central Park Mistur's Design Development Studio - Spring 2007 Bradley, Benjamin Additions Art museums Galleries Islam Wings The program for this project consists of a forty thousand square foot addition of exhibition space along with forty thousand square feet of exterior public green space. Galleries house a variety of artifacts from textiles to sculpture to paintings to an archeological ruin. The light conditions within each separate gallery must be highly controlled. There are also support spaces, curators’ offices, storage facilities and a café included in the program. The extension exists as a series of vertically organized galleries which stem from one end of a day-lit subterranean exhibition space housing Islamic ruins excavated from Jordan. Each gallery exists within the ordered system of ascension through the wing as a non-uniform floor plate buffered by two separate conditions: on the exterior side it is buffered from the park context by a lighting-control façade composed of an opaque material perforated with a pattern of translucent and transparent panels, while the interior edge condition of the floor plates, open to the atrium which slides vertically throughout the galleries, completely visually accessible to the visitor School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2007) Images Digital Jpk2 2007 Spring semester Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Islamic Art Wing Extension; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ascending the Minaret: a climb to the top of Central Park
Mistur's Design Development Studio - Spring 2007
Bradley, Benjamin
Additions
Art museums
Galleries
Islam
Wings
The program for this project consists of a forty thousand square foot addition of exhibition space along with forty thousand square feet of exterior public green space. Galleries house a variety of artifacts from textiles to sculpture to paintings to an archeological ruin. The light conditions within each separate gallery must be highly controlled. There are also support spaces, curators’ offices, storage facilities and a café included in the program. The extension exists as a series of vertically organized galleries which stem from one end of a day-lit subterranean exhibition space housing Islamic ruins excavated from Jordan. Each gallery exists within the ordered system of ascension through the wing as a non-uniform floor plate buffered by two separate conditions: on the exterior side it is buffered from the park context by a lighting-control façade composed of an opaque material perforated with a pattern of translucent and transparent panels, while the interior edge condition of the floor plates, open to the atrium which slides vertically throughout the galleries, completely visually accessible to the visitor
School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2007)
Images
Digital
Jpk2
2007 Spring semester
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY