For example, a horizontal gallery organization would connect to existing gallery floors. The upper floors of the ready-made zoning envelope might be staff office lofts. Bracketing A maximum of connectivity of gallery circuits is envisioned within an outer bracket, with the garden as the main focus at its center. 70 feet west. This affords a more central position for the original 1939 building as well as two new below-garden experimental exhibition areas of 21,000 square feet each.
Access is enhanced from all sides.
Staff offices are located in the thin floor plates of the upper levels of the bracketing scheme providing light and air to all offices. The reconfigured site provides an overall identity for the Museum within the city. Lobby and through-block connections are offered as in Concept A. Public view windows along 54th Street to the lobby gallery would enliven the currently blank street wall. The proposed moving rubber ramps would connect to this upper garden directly. The mysteries of darkness and the unknown are an aspect of Concept B. Natural light plays a much subtler role in the horizontal organization.