Kira Horie Portfolio
Museum Island
Harvard GSD Architecture Option Studio | Spring 2018
Advisor | Mark Lee and Sharon Johnston
Site | Houston, United States
Abstract
A large percentage of the art collection of museums are kept stored away in warehouses. This is a proposal for an art storage facility for the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas that would allow visitors to see the art in storage. In this storage facility each of the five required programs are housed in linear strips, unlike a typical spatial organization based on rooms and corridors. Moments of intersection between the strips create connections between the programs, allowing visitors in the public areas a glimpse of the private areas of the facility. These intersections also create spatial breaks, providing opportunities for transition in the continuous linearity of the strips.