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EYEBEAM MUSEUM OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY
Diller + Scofidio
SITE: A light-industrial, urban infill lot in the burgeoning Chelsea art gallery district of New York City.
PRoGRAM: A 90,000-square-foot museum providing flexible theater, education, production, and gallery space for a nonprofit cultural and educational organization dedicated to the digital arts.
SOLUTION: The hybrid nature of the project, both museum and production and education facility, prompted the design team to support the cross-- programming through spatial interweaving. A pliable ribbon partitions the program in two, with production spaces to one side and presentation spaces to the other. The ribbon undulates vertically as it climbs from the street: floor folds into wall as wall folds into ceiling. With each change of direction and level, the ribbon alternately enfolds a production or presentation...