Storage Your storage will be a permanent exhibition hall for Aby Warburg's atlas of images. The main exhibition galleries will be located in the middle of the building. Bring public attention to the gallery by identifying a large main threshold at one extreme of the building. On the other side, don't have an entrance, instead articulate the exterior surfaces at the scale of furniture. Give the corner to the public. The main door will be an extended threshold opening into a linear lobby. To access the main galleries, send the consumer through the building first. Allow the user to experience all the temporary aspects of the building: two rotating exhibition galleries, a cafe, admissions vestibule and the multiple systems of circulation, all leading to more or less the same place. Once the user has experienced the dynamic aspect of the project, try to keep him there.
The Atlas of images are 62 identical black boards with black and white reproductions adhered to the board. From a distance all of the boards are the same. The main galleries are organized as nested cylinders in plan with identical doors repeated around the cylinder. The doors mostly lead to small rooms which hold one board each. The room has a step down and two small benches to view the reproductions. Some of the doors do not belong to a viewing room but can be a short circuit to the other gallery, exit, entrance or back of house where the collector has his studio. Once the user enters the gallery and looks around a bit, he might be disoriented, not know how to get out. He must then use other means of navigation. In the large gallery, a sculpture of Laocoon and his Sons sits in the ground floor, but the sculpture is too big for the room and emerges through gallery floor above. The users will most likely use their memory and the orientation of the sculpture to navigate out of the gallery.