unBoxed museum

Prof. Lise Anne Couture + Prof. Dana Cupkova | Cornell University | Spring 2011  [ in collaboration with Nil Tuzcu]

The goal of this museum is to reconsider the architecture of the Big Box art museum. It is located in Manhattan's meatpacking district, traversed by a portion of the Highline.

A combined tectonic system was derived from two abstract formal systems developed through a range of digitally driven aggregation and distribution techniques.

The organizational system develops the interior configuration and the surface subdivision system addresses the articulation of enclosure at an intimate scale, which allows the generation of porosity and interchange between exterior and interior spaces.