Anthony Linville
The program for this project consisted of defining a set piece typology building that could primarily function as a mu seum while ultimately providing a quiet and calm place to relax and contemplate for visitors. The museum required a series of immersive exhibits to house the var ious Isamu Noguchi sculptures currently found within the Nelson Atkins Museum.
The site is located on East 48th St. in Kansas City, Missouri next to the Ewing & Muriel Kauffman Memorial Garden just shy south of the
its beautiful views from the hilltop, the prominent axis originating from the Nelson Atkins Museum to the north, and of course the directly adjacent mortuary garden. The Idea was to create a cross cantilevered structure with spaces throughout it tailored to enhance directly each Noguchi sculpture’s experience.
East Perspective
West Perspective
Structural Diagram
Materials
Diamond Plate Zinc Roof
Steel Framing Encased in Aluminum Paneling
Site Cast Concrete
This pre-existing site is a parking lot located on the intersection of Moro and 11th St. in Manhattan, Kansas. Surroundings include: commercial businesses, residential homes, and K-State’s college campus. This part of Manhattan is in a very vibrant area for the college town, making pedestrian traffic and an outdoor experience after wrapping up the adjacent bars an important consideration.
The program indicates a park that’s serviceable by the many food trucks in Manhattan as well as emulating the experience of an Italian piazza in the sense of a civic center. The goal was to create an atmosphere with some degree of enclosure that still responds to its surroundings while creating a welcoming environment for pedestrians.
A level of Enclosure for the project was achieved through a raised plaza with thick stereotomic borders serving as fencing. The project contains a host of activities at the top of that plaza, not only food trucks but: play areas, seating for performances, and even a pavilion with covered seating spilling out of it. With help from vegetation the plaza is protected by line of sight and sound in order to provide people with an immersed sense of refuge.
South Elevation
West Elevation
The museum of emotions project is located in Downtown Manhattan, Kansas. The goal was to create a stronger sense of welcome to Manhattan than the adjacent Manhattan Discovery Center. For the Museum of emotion I was tasked to create two spaces that embody architecturally derived emotion.
Shown in the diagrams, one of the big factors of the form of the building including the landscape was to create a response to the main road people come off when arriving in Manhattan. This was done with the negative space as that medium, while inversely on the northwest side responding to the urban environment through a strong rectilinear urban edge. Making the spaces read to the exterior through rough and sharp profiles for the negative while soft and circular for positive space allowed for an exterior response and the beginning of a story to be told through its form through function. The Positive space contained water and plenty of light due to it materializing as void to fit that experience. However the negative space materialized as a stereotomic mass that appeared to crash into the structure in hopes to use its impact crater as not only a usable outdoor amphitheater on the less noisy side of the building but to call for a creation of a moat surrounding to soften and stretch the transitional experience into a charged space with those implied emotions.
Roof Detail
Detail
Negative Space
