Children's Museum
Competition Studio Design, Second Place
Competition Studio Design, Second Place
We were asked to design a children's museum located across from the Martin Luther King Library in DC. It was a challenge to design as an infill building, but I chose to address the challenge by developing my concept based on the struggle of squeezing a building in. My concept was stitching together the adjacent buildings to form a new space, the museum. This created a sort of web that was carried through the entire infill. While the neighboring buildings created this web when I "stitched" them, that web then became the structure of the museum. It is apparent at some points that the web starts to cradle the floors and the steps or path as well. The web then starts to inform the program of the museum and create unique spaces that either separate children and parents or pull them back together.
