Penn Museum

Museums are bastions that protect their contents from the elements, the world, and its people. The barrier to entry of the admission fee notwithstanding, the major barrier between the world and the museum is the archive – an inaccessible space that holds a majority of the museum’s artifacts. This expansion functions as that bastion – the archives held within its thick walls. As one passes through the entrance, the wall begins to expose itself. From the vantage of the exhibition and education spaces, patrons can see the museum employees moving from space to space, transporting the artifacts throughout a spiraling circulation. The archives function as the bastion, but the exhibition and education spaces function as cracks in that bastion.

Digital Cooperative Forms Space+Time