INFINITE MUSEUM

Le Corbusier’s Western Art Museum is in a deteriorated state, with an ill-planned lighting scheme. Many of the master’s lighting design strategies have been reworked into nonfunctioning elements. The Museum also is in desperate need of materials update.

Studying the inherent geometries and Le Corbusier’s fascination with the ever expanding museum, a secondary system of spiral expansion could be mended into the existing spiral form. Starting with the notion of the continuous spiraling form, using three exhibit spaces flanked by circulation corridors a study of a system emerged. Rotating the central exhibit space alleviates the circulation ramps by extending the run. Then each of these plates are either rotated, mirrored or stretched to fit atop the previous generating plate.