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ARCH AVE

Penn Museum Archive Wing

Building Addition on a Historical Museum

Site: Penn Campus, Philadelphia.

Building Area: 30,000 ft² 


 PennDesign | Gisela Baurmann | Fall 2017

    This project explores the infinite continuity of crocheting. The crochet stitch creates a continuous, almost paradoxical loop, which in this project becomes an extremely complex gallery sequence. The form of the crochet component is derived from he resolution of a discourse between a chosen museum element and an endless crochet loop. Layers of passage ways with refined edges are stitched together with a rigor of fluidity. 


    With an interest in both classical and expressionist architecture, while the component explores the complex forms and flow spatial qualities, the building organization studies and contests the existing Beaux Art plan. The wall of the museum is removed. In its place, there lays the new addition between the two ends of the side wings of the existing structure, becomes the new wall.

    Drawings

    A Series of Transformation between a Stitch Component and a Building Element

    Design Development - Site Analysis

    The building form starts with a study of blending a museum element (form) into a continuous crochet stitch (organization). The result embodies both a aesthetic formal value and a logical organization value of the gallery space. The process creates many “in between” objects that have architectural qualities that may be helpful - such as courtyards, terraces, intersections. These qualities are further refined to realize the building program.


    Site information is always important to me. The development takes a close look at the neighboring urban condition, solar & wind studies and flood plane, as well as traffic. The museum is positioned in a crucial intersection of Penn campus and I-76, which demands a pronounced gesture and street exposure. 

    Drawings

    Multiple Courtyards

    Courtyard & Archive Chamber

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