Auto-Make Museum
Advisor: Anthony GagliardiFeatured in University of Pennsylvania’s Pressing Matters
Concept
The Auto-Make Museum centers the act of making and craftmanship in the artistic process. This is a 25,000 Sqft extension to University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Contemporary Art.
Inspired by earlier research in the semester on the designer Enzo Mari, this addition is dedicated to local artists in Philadelphia as studio and workshop space. This is achieved through a thickening of the exterior envelope as program space organized around a central atrium. A series of shifts are introduced throughout the project as a response to surrounding context and to create hierarchy for different programmed space within.
The workshop levels function in the open-studio concept allowing oppourtunties for museum visitors to interact and work with local artists. Each level holds a series of boxes that function as dedicated display and shop space for these artists that puncture into the central atrium creating a dialogue between different artistic trades. The museum experience ends in the rooftop park which can hold weekend farmer markets and other public events critical to arts and crafts culture.
This addition questions how we view and engage with art through active making rather than static viewing.
The Auto-Make Museum centers the act of making and craftmanship in the artistic process. This is a 25,000 Sqft extension to University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Contemporary Art.
Inspired by earlier research in the semester on the designer Enzo Mari, this addition is dedicated to local artists in Philadelphia as studio and workshop space. This is achieved through a thickening of the exterior envelope as program space organized around a central atrium. A series of shifts are introduced throughout the project as a response to surrounding context and to create hierarchy for different programmed space within.
The workshop levels function in the open-studio concept allowing oppourtunties for museum visitors to interact and work with local artists. Each level holds a series of boxes that function as dedicated display and shop space for these artists that puncture into the central atrium creating a dialogue between different artistic trades. The museum experience ends in the rooftop park which can hold weekend farmer markets and other public events critical to arts and crafts culture.
This addition questions how we view and engage with art through active making rather than static viewing.
