5. EXISTING BUILDING
workshop was formerly the CafĂŠ Sara. It has direct access to the outdoors and large north-facing windows viewing the lake. Bathrooms, storage and sinks are accounted for. In the upstairs galleries, one storage space that was originally meant to be a gallery is to be changed back to a gallery. This completes a full circulation plan around the central gallery as originally intended.
5.1 GALLERY SPACES AND ACCESS The existing museum is accessed on the lower level by a new corridor that is under the existing entrance to the building, connecting from the new galleries. Just before the existing building is entered, a view to the lake opens up to the north through a tall, glazed curtain wall. The corridor enters the lower galleries through the space formerly occupied by the multimedia gallery, later turned storage room. To the north of this passage is a children’s workshop. The space for the
5.2 OFFICE WING The existing office wing also requires intensive renovations due to the huge
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OFFICE
LIBRARY
NEW ENTRANCE
NEW CORRIDOR STORAGE
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volume of space needed in comparison to the existing. In order to effectively double the amount of offices and create additional spaces for staff use, a second floor would need to be added to the existing single floor structure. In order to do this, most of the existing wing would need to be demolished. Located on the first floor would be offices for interns and less essential museum staff as well as a break room for tour guides, complete with an open-air courtyard in the center of the wing. This courtyard provides two purposes. The first is direct access to fresh air for the staff during a break. In addition, staff members who smoke would be isolated here away from building entrances that unfortunately, have become a common meeting place for smokers. The second purpose is to provide natural light into the center of the wing, on both the first and second floors. In order to let the light into the offices as well, the same opaque glass screen wall would be used to divide the offices from the hallway. Also located on the first floor would be anexpanded library. Half of the library 29