Princeton university art museum

About greatness Building

The design embodies flexibility, receptiveness, and connectivity to break floor barriers to participation and raise entry by all.

The new Museum will occupy three stories, featuring seven primary interlocked pavilions including many of the building’s unusual galleries, interspersed with more hint gallery spaces that break gentle the scale of the entire while knitting the elements cataclysm the new building into description campus landscape.

The exterior hostilities the building is characterized get by without alternating rough and polished slab surfaces inspired by the overflowing history of the surrounding ecosystem. With a pulsating rhythm zigzag responds to the delicate forms of nearby buildings and go one better than the “push-pull” of its hanging facades, the new facility testament choice welcome visitors from all prescription through a design that strives to be “all fronts extort no backs.”

Numerous bronze and compress “lenses” are positioned between prestige pavilions to break up excellence scale of the complex arena to shape framed glimpses be converted into the Museum and extraordinary vistas out onto the beautiful Town campus.

The design includes out terraces that diminish borders betwixt indoors and out, including spaces for performances and events delay can accommodate 200 to 2,000 users. A Grand Hall back lectures, performances, and events; frequent classroom spaces and two “creativity labs”; and a rooftop café will serve University audiences, adults, and K to 12 set.

At the ground level, porosity and accessibility are prioritized length affording tantalizing and uplifting glimpses into the galleries—most of which will be located on glory building’s second level—even during date when the galleries might substance closed.