Little River Contemporary Art Museum

Students: Diego Saenz, Austin Landrette

Professor: Jordan Trachtenberg

We programmed a mixed use cultural campus. Including a contemporary art museum, an art history museum, and finally the Little River Art and History Museum; which would exclusively showcase the art and history from Little River. The conceptual relation between the three museums is that the art history museum is a hybrid of the contemporary art museum and the little river art and history museum. The contemporary art museum is generated from a series of voids in the horizontal slabs that are manipulated for the needs of the retail square footage. The voids were then used as the circulation for the museum; the concept was then manipulated to translate onto the façade in the form of simple push and pulls. The Little River Art and History Museum is influenced by spatial requirements of the retail spaces, only this time the structural framework is manipulated to add the space as needed. Therefore, resulting in a similar effect on the façade. In terms of circulation, one moves along a centralized core that creates a flip flop of programmatic and spatial experience. Finally, the art history museum combines the generative voids used as circulation from the contemporary art museum and the structural manipulations of the Little River Museum.