Dream the Combine in collaboration with David Chipperfield Architects and Deborah Burke Partners

This invited competition entry proposes a redesign of the Modern and Contemporary wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In place of the hermetic and hard to navigate 1960s wing, this design proposes a limpid and flexible structure that opens to its Central Park setting.


Galleries are organized along a promenade that forms the main circulatory route for the Southeast corner of the museum. Movement is choreographed by a sequence of framed views, out to Central Park and back into other wings of the museum collection, which guide patrons up and through the gallery spaces.

This path is conceived as a connection thread between two “horizons” - a public plaza and garden at the park level, inviting the public to interact with the museum at this formerly closed corner, and an outdoor roof terrace above the galleries, creating a social hub overlooking the Central Park tree canopy.

Role: Designer
Concept team, primary designer for Dream the Combine final submission. All graphics shown produced personally.   

Dream the Combine - Design Collaborators
Principals:
Jennifer Newsom, Tom Carruthers
Concept Team:
Ana Gabriela-Loayza, Arseny Pekurovsky, Kathy Kao, Max Ouellette-Howitz

David Chipperfield Architects - Design lead
Deborah Berke Partners - Design Collaborators
Studio Zewde - Design Collaborators (Landscape)