The design for The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky acts as both an activator of the campus edge and a central destination for the adjacent urban context. Although the open green space occasionally supports a few campus groups after school hours, it is often an inactive interstitial spaces functioning as merely a cut-through. It’s position along a key campus axis provides a critical opportunity to intercept the current high-traffic pedestrian circulation: the museum’s experimental gallery lifts from the ground plane as a landscape—art becomes a part of the daily commute.
The museum’s landscape strategy is highly integral to the project: it simultaneously reinforces and augments various elements from the campus master plan. Programmatically the project engages the communty, students, and faculty with artist studios that protrude from the landscape towards downtown, while commanding high visibilty and capturing abundant northern light. The cafe/gallery, restaurant, museum shop, and auditorium attract public interest at the periphery while diffusing the threshold of the museum with topological disruptions.
Project Teammate: Addison Hughes
Augmentations [Paintings]
The paintings are augmented artifacts of conceptual and perceptual ideas about the project relative to building and landscape. The production of the work becomes an active excogitation and contemplation of the prevailing design issues. These extrapolations supplant the precision of the digital environment with a low-resolution ideation medium that offers speed and haptic engagement.
The paintings are augmented artifacts of conceptual and perceptual ideas about the project relative to building and landscape. The production of the work becomes an active excogitation and contemplation of the prevailing design issues. These extrapolations supplant the precision of the digital environment with a low-resolution ideation medium that offers speed and haptic engagement.
