Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize︎
Nelson Atkins Case Study Model
Exhibited at the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Exhibition
Completed at the Illinois Institute of Technology
2014
Completed at the Illinois Institute of Technology
2014
Interpretive model of the Nelson-Atkins museum in Kansas City used in a dialog with designer Chris McVoy of Steven Holl Architects. Simple massing of the existing museum is made of limestone while the massing of the addition is represented in plaster. A vacuumed-formed plastic landscape reveals the rhizomatic nature of the addition underground.
Study Model
Planning the Limestone Cut
Completing the Joining of the Two Forms
Final Model With Vacuum Formed Site