This competition entry completes the unresolved existing structure, transforming its provisional figure into a continuous perimeter building. The proposed addition completes the existing building, providing an urban boundary, creating a generous enclosed courtyard that serves as a civic heart for the entire campus—hosting communal gatherings, performative art, and modulated flows of visitors and light to New Museum of Art and Design. The structure’s articulated enclosure mediates between the campus’s urban fabric and programmatic demands, creating a dynamic loop while offering thresholds between spaces of viewing, study, repose, and vibrant public encounter.

Art Spaces

Vast interior volumes and open-plan expanses respond to the needs of contemporary art and design: iterative experiments, site-specific installations, participatory exchanges, and time-based works where meaning often emerges through interaction rather than static display. Calibrated spatial adjacencies link university educational studios and galleries ensuring adaptability, with overscaled apertures to the newly created gallery spaces, that allow for free and continual flow, chance encounters, and continuous installation and activations from noon to midnight. The generous volumes provide conditions for large installations; the proposed display spaces offer adaptability in response to contemporary art’s evolving nature.

Programmatic Integration

Third spaces—information and ticketing areas, bookstore, and educational spaces are positioned strategically to collection storage, conservation labs, and office which are nested discreetly within the perimeter building, ensuring operational efficiency and connectivity between the museums public and back of house realms. Classrooms and student studios interlace with museum public areas and galleries, their porous thresholds enabling seamless transitions from pedagogical inquiry to curatorial presentation. This unique school-museum adjacency fosters reciprocal exchange: student work inflects exhibitions, while curatorial discourse enriches academic studios, yielding a hybrid institution where learning and display mutually evolve.

Materials

Concrete forms the new structure’s core, lending permanence and material heft while grounding galleries and studios in solidity. Irregular angular forms—sharply incised and provisional—respond to the uncertainties of contemporary art practice. Through this material discipline, and spatial rigor, the building frames flux and contingency, integrating pedagogy and exhibition in a facility attuned to the institution’s aspirations.