Museo Cultural de Santa Fe

Museo Cultural de Santa Fe

Santa Fe, New Mexico

NJIT, Spring 2014 Comprehensive Studio with critic, Tony Santos

Received the Comprehensive Undergraduate Excellence in Design Award

The new Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, New Mexico will serve as a space for visitors to contemplate past traditions and to look onto the existing city as a contrast. This will be done with variations in the types of spaces a visitor will pass through while on their visit to the museum. Spaces between exhibits will be known as 'transitions' in which a visitor is connected back to their context and become aware of their surroundings. With the implementation of seasonal vegetation, a visitor will also experience the dramatic climate of the region with the changing seasons, as well as the micro changes within one day. Exhibition spaces will direct a visitor's attention back into the building where Santa Fe art and culture will be on display. While the visitor may not be looking upon the existing outdoor conditions, they will experience it within these spaces through natural day lighting and ventilation. Spaces will be defined by their permeability to the outdoors, their relationship to each other and the cores of circulation with maximum flexibility of major spaces. Circulation will run parallel to the Santa Fe River with program flanking on either side. These spaces will be interested perpendicular with voids and vegetation to bring in sunlight and views.