INFINITE MUSEUM

Le Corbusier’s Western Art Museum is in a deteriorated state, with an ill-planned lighting scheme. Many of the master’s lighting design strategies have been reworked into nonfunctioning elements. The Museum also is in desperate need of materials update.

Studying the inhenrent geometries and Le Corbusier’s facination with the ever expanding museum, a secondary system of sprial expansion could be mended into the existing spiral form. Starting with the notion of the continous spiraling form, using three exhibit spaces flanked by circulation corridors a study of a system emerged. Rotating the central exhibit space alleviates the circulation ramps by extending the run. Then each of these plates are either rotated, mirrored or stretched to fit atop the previous generating plate.