Museum of the City

During this project, we traveled to Charleston, SC to conduct a site analysis of the historic district of the city. After analyzing the language of the city, we were each given a parking lot within our groups on which to develop a museum conveying the language of the city and the surrounding area.

The form of the museum was taken directly from the surrounding regulating lines and relative heights of buildings, as well as vegetation and other site conditions. My museum used the regulating lines of the street edges running perpendicular to the parking lot in the north to create a form that wrapped upon itself into an “S” shape in section — enabling a motion of moving visitors through the museum while staying with the contours of the site.