Program Strategy
PROGRAM STRATEGY
There areprogrammatic four programmatic There are four zones within the museum that are orgazones within the museum that nized emphasize thetofact that we areto organized emphasize are conditioned by our own culture. the fact that we are condiThe large tower that penetrates the tioned our culture. ground planeby into theown sub-grade The large thatAmeripenexhibition space tower represents canetrates culture and holds anything of into the ground plane American origin in the four collecthe below ground exhibition tions. The massing of this tower space, represents American created physical and metaphorical culture andthe holds anything of tension between American and origin in the collectheAmerican Education zones.
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tions. This pushes towards the education block, creating tension both physically and metaphorically between America and education.
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LEVEL ZERO - EXHIBITION SCALE: N.T.S.
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1. Meeting Room 2. Curator Office 3. Curator Office 4. Guest Curator Office 5. Director Office 6. Open Office room 1. meeting 2. curator 7. Woodshop 3. curator 8. Gallery Manager 4. guest curator 9. Video Installations of Origins 5. director 6. open office 10. Mechanical 7. woodshop 11. Closed Storage 8. gallery manager 12. Traditional Display of origins 9. video installations 13.10. Open Study mechanical closed storage 14.11. Contemporary Display 12. traditional display 15.13. Ethnographic Dioramas open study 16.14. Artifacts Unknown contemporary display 15. ethnographical dioramas 16. artifacts unknown
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UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
Level Zero - Exhibition