Sheldon Museum of Art
Janice Dreisbach, Director
Dan Seidel, Curator
Ed Rumbaugh, Preparator
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This project investigates ways to enhance the public engagement in the museum’s Great Hall, an under-programmed public area of the Sheldon Museum of Art (designed by Philip Johnson and built in 1963). Driven by the pursuit of a mobile “human infrastructure”, concepts explored include flexible seating, a portable coffee bar, and other objects that support a variety of educational, social, and leisure activities. The first built phase is a demountable aluminum vestibule that affords acoustical and visual privacy for a new video gallery and a program for rotating color “flavors”, selected to correspond to themes in the collection, on the underside of the existing stair and bridge.
Public areas with undefined program.
Concept Design:
Brandon Horn, Dani (Johnson) Heider
Video Vestibule design & construction:
Michael Davis