NICHOLAS HOLZER

I designed my addition of the Guggenheim across the street from the existing structure. In my design process I completely wanted to flip Frank Gehry's design mentality. Gehry insists on showing movement in form similar to folds in a cloth. I wanted to the movement to be from the user (the experience (you take home a museum experience not a piece of art off the wall.)) Making series of single line sketches on how I wanted the users experience to be, making every floor of the 4 floor building different, then bubbling them to create spaces and galleries after that (shown below). Having all galleries inset from the exteriors wall allows the exterior walls to be glass allowing people out side to see the movement of the users and not the physical form. With gallery walls more than 6 feet thick, creates a different experience to every gallery the user walks into. Negative spaces were used to create atriums that grow throughout the floors for monumental stair cases as well as giving the user a chance to very the circulation above and below but not being able to look in the other galleries wrecking the "surprise."