Museum Selections
Corning Museum of Glass : Contemporary Glass Galleries Corning Museum of Glass : Expansion Study Projects : 2003-2007 New South Field Contemporary Glass Galleries The New South Field Galleries addition links directly to the existing Sculpture Galleries, which occupy the original single story international style Corning Glass Center Building. The proposed 37,000 sq.ft of additional gallery space is located on three floors of the new structure. Each floor is further divided into smaller open galleries, including the Ramp Gallery, each suitable for individual or group exhibitions. A link bridge connects the upper floor galleries back to the Glass Innovation Center circulation path. Formally, the structure cantilevers out over the access road to act as a portal by day and a beacon by night. The exterior skin of the building expresses the molecular structural pattern of glass. The proposal includes a reflecting pool to present new contemporary glass outdoor installations which employ static or floating water elements.
Corning Museum of Glass : Contemporary Glass Galleries Corning Museum of Glass : Expansion Study Projects : 2003-2007 The Infill Galleries The Infill Galleries addition links the Contemporary Sculpture Galleries, Art and History Building and the Glass Innovation Center, by forming a new infill hub structure. The proposed additional gallery space is located on three floors of the new structure and in a new gallery space above the existing Sculpture Galleries. Formally, the structure is a neutral series of stacked boxes, with each facade equipped with automatic operating exterior solar louvers. The horizontality of each facade, link the elevations back to the Glass Innovation Center and provide a foil for the expressive exterior facets of architect Gunnar Birkerts (1980) Art and History Building. A series of framed volumes penetrate the facades to present featured works from the permanent collections or special exhibitions.
Corning Museum of Glass : Contemporary Glass Galleries Corning Museum of Glass : Expansion Study Projects New Glass Galleries : 2003-2007 A series of comprehensive feasibility and planning studies examining the development of three sites within the Corning Museum of Glass Houghton Park Campus in Corning, New York. These studies were initiated to identify locations for expansion of museum activities as they related to the need for New Contemporary Glass Galleries. The studies included a new South Field Gallery addition, a Infill Gallery addition adjacent to the 1980 Birkerts building and a Roof Gallery addition above the existing Steuben factory. Each study examined concepts for site circulation, access and adjacencies to existing and related areas as an extension of the existing organizational structure. Test-Fit Planning studies were developed as they related to function, site restrictions, existing conditions, proposed building and interior layouts. Support analysis of the 37,000 sq.ft comparative square foot allocations and outline budgets were developed for impact on future corporate capital expenditures. Including site context studies, architecture concept studies and interior gallery visualization, the project proposal reinforced a curatorial initiative for open and flexible exhibit space, and a conceptual link to the Houghton Park Campus as a historical architectural continuum. Corning Museum of Glass : Expansion Study Projects New Glass Galleries : 2003-2007 The Roof Gallery The Roof Gallery addition links to the Innovations Center admissions lobby by means of an introduction gallery. The additional gallery space is located in a new structure proposed as a Roof Gallery or 2nd Floor addition above the existing Steuben Glass factory and office. Formally, the structure is a singular volume, with the facades equipped with automatic operating exterior solar louvers. The horizontality of the facade, links the elevation back to the Glass Innovation Center. A series of framed volumes penetrate the facades to present featured works from the permanent collections or special exhibitions.
Corning Museum of Glass : Bridge Gallery Corning Museum of Glass : Bridge Gallery : 2002-2004 Originally connected to the Gunnar Birkerts (1980) designed Art and History Building by a small enclosed bridge, this proposal replaces the bridge, which restricted circulation, with a new glass and aluminum enclosed Bridge Gallery. The gallery functions as a viewing and introduction gallery to both the Art and History Exhibitions and the Changing Gallery Exhibitions. Formally, the change in elevation of the connected structures is emphasized in the sloped floor plane of the new bridge, the circulation path is marked with a series of illuminated glass benches extending into the viewing gallery.
Corning Museum of Glass : B Building Renovation Gallery Corning Museum of Glass The 'B' Building Renovation Study The studies for the conversion and renovation of the 45,000 sq.ft. 'B' Building, in the Houghton Park museum complex, included the development of test-fit planning and visualization studies for a new Contemporary Glass Gallery, a Glass Making Machines Center and expansion of The Studio : Walk-in Work Shop and Fun-with-Glass activities. Each study examined concepts for site circulation, access and adjacencies to existing museum facilities. Support analysis of comparative square foot allocations and outline budgets, developed to assess impact on future corporate capital expenditures. The renovation proposed entrances integrated in a 'pulled-out' facade concept, each ADA compliant entrance was defined by the cantilever displacement of a section of the historic 'glass block' curtain wall. The proposed Contemporary Glass Gallery and Glass Making Machines Center, were strategically planned to take advantage of the 24' height space of the former laboratories to exhibit installation glass art and the display of the large industrial glass making machines.
Corning Museum of Glass : The Heinemann Collection Galleries Corning Museum of Glass : Voices of Contemporary Glass : The Heineman Collection The exhibition, designed by HAIGHArchitects, transforms over 10,000 sq.ft. of the large and open spaces of the Museum into a more intimate setting, reminiscent of Heinemans' Chicago residence, in which the objects were originally displayed. Presented in a series of architectural narratives, such as 'The Hall,' 'The Cityscape,' 'The Living Room,' and 'The Banquet, the art works are mostly arranged by artist, rather than by artistic theme, date, or technique. The installation invites the visitor on a journey, through these multiple scaled spaces, to explore the historical context of international studio glass. Focusing on the accomplishments of individual artists, video interviews give an insight into selected artists exploring their individual ideas, or 'voices,' in glass. This multitude of voices and perspectives celebrates the infinite possibilities of glass as a medium for contemporary vessels and sculpture, and documents the ongoing process of discovery and innovation that has shaped the story of the Studio Glass movement. The Heineman Collection, curated by Tina Oldknow, almost completely covers the chronology of the American Studio Glass movement: it includes 240 objects by 87 artists, which were made between 1969 and 2005. All of the pieces in the collection are presented in the exhibition.
Corning Museum of Glass : Making Ideas : Changing Gallery Corning Museum of Glass : Changing Exhibitions Gallery Making Ideas : Experiments in Design at GlassLab The exhibition, designed by HAIGHArchitects, showcases the Museum's signature design program, GlassLab, in which designers are invited to work with hot glass. The exhibition features over 150 design prototypes by more than 45 international designers. The exhibition centers on material and the activity of thinking and making. It emphasizes the role of designers and the process of creation and collaboration using glass, rather than the individual glass object or group of objects. In Making Ideas, objects play a secondary role. It is a window into an ongoing program, a glimpse of what is happening now. It is a story told through images of and words about people and material.
Heritage Welcome Center Museum : Park City Kentucky Heritage Welcome Center Competition : Park City Kentucky The international competition entry for a new visitors center to service the Highway 31W Corridor, Mammoth Cave National Park and the associated environs of Park City Kentucky. As the new cultural hub, the proposed Heritage Welcome Center, is conceived as a participatory and progressive architectural experience. Participatory, in the sense of inviting visitors to understand, learn and investigate the cultural and natural resources of the Highway 31W Corridor, Mammoth Cave National Park and the associated environs. Progressive, in providing an informed and active environment in which to be educated, enthralled and entertained. As the region of the Highway 31W corridor was shaped by the evolution of road, rail and river transportation, a conceptual analogy is made to "...travel and discovery along a route". The question is asked "...can a generic building form be transformed and transposed into something new that is analogous with this processional notion of movement along a road, railway or river". The early buildings of Kentucky owe much to the simple shed forms, cabins and covered trestle bridges that developed as the pioneers moved westward. The region inherited this legacy of a primarily rural and endemic architecture. In the proposed new Heritage Welcome Center building, these architecturally simple forms have been explored both structurally and formally as a reflection of this tradition. The metal shed roof is stretched, split and articulated to echo the natural hilltop topography. Exterior forms and interior volumes offer spatial rewards that present referential analogies to regional iconography e.g. the subterranean theater (Mammoth Caves), the forked museum wing (a railway switch) and the covered bridge walk (L&N Railway bridge at Munfordville). A structural matrix of columns and a massive rough hewn central stone wall anchor the lighter divergent volumes. Wooden truss systems are orthogonally juxtaposed to the rhomboid roof forms. Glazing systems reflect carriage, railway and barge construction detailing. Materials are simple, generic and indigenous. The concepts embodied in the design of the Heritage Welcome Center invite the visitor to arrive, participate, explore and... remember.