(AR-501) ARCHITECTURE DESIGN – III, (THEORY +STUDIO)

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND DEISGN

Art and Architecture Museum (Cultural Diversity)

Department Of Architecture and DEISGN

SEMESTER: 5TH (3rd YEAR), Date: 6-11-2021
INSTRUCTOR:

 Architect Nida Rehman (Lecturer, Dept. of Architecture)

Design project Title:

Art and Architecture Museum (Cultural Diversity)

INTRODUCTION

“Museums are powerful. Museums can discipline the mindset of people. Owing to the fact that
people in general consider museums are reliable sources for gaining knowledge and understanding
their surroundings, this facilitates museums to exercise their disciplinary power.”

The Disciplinary Power of Museums 20th century has seen the elevation of the museums as a place
of learning which also plays its part in enhancing the national imagination of the citizen. In this
regard the students are required to understand the project not only as a structure but a spectacle
with embodied symbolism. The project is meant to enhance student’s ability to integrate the
technical issues with symbolism to produce an appreciable design. Over the course of project, the
students are also required to
1. Document the process of designing. In this regard students are encouraged to maintain
a journal, develop study models and do sketches,
2. Pay a considerable attention to the technicalities, services, wheel chair accessibility
and emergency exits.
3. Carefully select the materials for exterior and interior of the project and develop
sample board.
4. Prepare accurate presentation drawings, paying a special attention to the language of
architectural drawing.

The baseline program of the museum is attached with this brief; however, students can mold the
Museum according to their own area of interest.
NEED OF THIS PROJECT

 To analyze the feel of space in an human environment

 To provide an effective circulation path and services.
 To develop a new concept for interior spaces as well as studying sustainable building
material through different case studies
 To investigate museum architecture

DESIGN GUIDELINE
 The building ambience should be maintained inside as well as outside. Landscape around
the building should be developed in a way that it complements the experience within the
museum.
 Aesthetic choices support and reflect the theme and tone of the exhibition
 Orientation, spatial organization and traffic flow are appropriate to the goals of the
exhibition.
 The physical space (such as layout, lighting, flooring) is created in such a way that
audience members of varying physical size and abilities are able to navigate and interact
with the exhibition.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF MUSEUMS

There are different types of museums. Here are some of them:

 Archaeology museums. They display archeological artifacts. They can be open-air

museums or they can exhibit items in a building.

 Art museums. Also known as art galleries. They are spaces for showing art objects, most
commonly visual art objects as paintings, sculpture, photography, illustrations, drawings,
ceramics or metalwork. First publicly owned art museum in Europe was Amerbach-
Cabinet in Basel (Now Kunstmuseum Basel).

 Encyclopedic museums. They are usually large institutions and they offer visitors a wide
variety of information on many themes, both local and global. They are not thematically
defined nor specialized.

 Historic house museums. A house or a building turned into a museum for a variety of
reasons, most commonly because the person that lived in it was important or something
important happened in it. House is often equipped with furniture like it was in the time
 when it was used. Visitors of the house learn through guides that tell story of the house
and its inhabitants.

 History museums. They collect objects and artifacts that tell a chronological story about
particular locality. Objects that are collected could be documents, artifacts, archeological
findings and other. They could be in a building, historic house or a historic site.

 Living history museums. Type of a museum in which historic events are performed by
actors to immerse a viewer and show how certain events looked like or how some crafts
were performed because there is no other way to see them now because they are obsolete.

 Maritime museums. Specialized museums for displaying maritime history, culture or

archaeology. Primarily archaeological maritime museum’s exhibit artifacts and preserved
shipwrecks recovered from bodies of water. Maritime history museums, show and educate
the public about humanity's maritime past.

 Military and war museums. Museums specialized in military histories. Usually

organized from a point of view of a one nation and conflicts in which that country has
taken part. They collect and present weapons, uniforms, decorations, war technology and
other objects.

 Mobile museums. Museums that have no specific strict place of exhibiting. They could
be exhibited from a vehicle or they could move from museum to museum as guests. Also
a name for a parts of exhibitions of a museum that are sent to another museum.

 Natural history museums. Usually display objects from nature like stuffed animals or
pressed plants. They educate about natural history, dinosaurs, zoology, oceanography,
anthropology, evolution, environmental issues, and more.

 Open-air museums. Characteristic for exhibiting outdoors. Exhibitions consist of

buildings that recreate architecture from the past. First opened in Scandinavia near the end
of the 19th century.

 Pop-up museums. Nontraditional museum institutions. Made to last short and often
relying on visitors to provide museum objects and labels while professionals or institution
only provide theme. With that is constructed shared historical authority.

 Science museums. Specialized for science and history of science. In the beginning they
were static displays of objects but now they are made so the visitors can participate and
that way better learn about different branches of science.
RECOMMENDED LOCAL CASE STUDIES:
No Name of Museum Location
1 Lahore Museum Mall Road, Lahore.
2 Science Museum U.E.T., Lahore.
3 National History Museum Greater Iqbal Park, Lahore.
4 Natural History Museum Islamabad.
5 Lok-Virsa Islamabad.
6 National Museum of Pakistan Karachi.
7 Qilla Museum Multan

RECOMMENDED INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDIES

No Name of Museum Location

1 Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany
2 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, U.S.A.
3 Guggenheim Gehry Bilbao, Spain
4 Louvre Museum, Dubai, U.A.E.
5 National Museum of Qatar, Doha, Qatar
6 Museums of Modern Art Fort Worth, United States
7 Odunpazari Modern Museum Eskisehir, Turkey
8 Vietnam War Memorial
9 The Centre Pompidou Paris

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

 Bertron, Aurelia et.al (2012) Exhibitions: Compendium for Architects, Designers

and Museologists. Birkhauser Architecture
 Li, Xiaolu (2014). Museums. Design Media Publishing
 ICI Consultants (2012). French Museum Architecture. LST Publishing House
 Hourston, Laura (2004). Museum Builders, Part II. Academy Press
 Steele, James. (1994). Museum Builders, Part I, Wiley-Academy

WEBSITE:

 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/topics/817-museums-arts-center-projects
 https://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/museum
 https://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/museum/country/china?page=2
 BUILDING PROGRAM
In this project students mainly focused on the following design requirements:

 SPATIAL REQUIREMENT:

Baseline spatial requirement are as under; however, students can mold the requirement
according to the specialized museum they intended to do.
 Main Entrance: Reception, locker area, main circulation.
 Display: Permanent & Temporary.
 Exhibition Gallery: Multiple galleries for display.
 Workshops: Metal & Wood.
 Support Areas: Seminar rooms, Archive & Storage space.
 Library: Small museum library
 Leisure: Café.
 Offices: Curator, In charge, Admin, HR and Accounts offices.
 Lobby: Ticket counter & Souvenir’s shop.
 Amenities: Toilets, Car park, Services areas.
 Other services: Janitor, Mechanical services, Generator, kitchenette.
Car Parking
Bike Parking
Guard Room.
Traffic flow/ Pedestrian flow
Ramps
Store
Toilets
Stair Case/ Emergency stair Case.
Two rooms for Security Guards.
Building Services
 Fire exits
 Fire fighting
 Public health
 Power Supply (Wapda, Generator)

 REQUIRED MATERIAL
Students are strictly advised to bring the following materials in every class

 A Sketch book prepared from butter papers 10” x 15” with at least 50 sheets
 Color Marker/Pencil Set
 Pencil , Sharpener, Rubber etc
 Architectural Scale
 Calculator
 Set Squares
 Graph Paper
  METHODOLOGY:
The whole design project has been done through an immersive design process happening mainly
on site. The whole project has been developed with the conceptual methodological steps of first
diagnosing the current context, the need of people, then dreaming of the future, then developing
alternatives, and lastly defining a way forward.
 Observations
 Literature Research/ Case Studies
 Discussions
 Flow Analysis
 Zoning Analysis
 Sketching
 Site Analysis / Study Visits
 Master plan zoning
 Building blocks placement
 Building design development

 SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
 Research work/ case studies
 Site analysis
 Design concept
 Master planning (Detailed master planning with proper rendering)
 Planning
 Detailed Elevations / Section
 3D model physical / on software.

 SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Detailed Master Plan on 30”x40” Sheet (Details including car parking, zoning,
 Site Analysis
 2x Elevations
 2x Sections
 3D views
 Study Model with Massing, Detailed Plans, Sections & Elevations
 Weekly Action plan

Evaluation criteria

Studio Project one Plan

Session Published Referenced

No Material / Books’ Session Topic Assessments %
Weeks Chapters

Book’s Name/ Latest Butter Sheet

 Design concept development
1 Research Paper: 5
Design Development  CONCEPTUAL DESIGN Sketches

 Site analysis
 Circulation flow
 Pedestrian flow
2  Traffic flow Bubble Design 5
CASE STUDY  Vehicular flow
 PROGRAMMATIC DESIGN
 CONTEXTUAL DESIGN
3 PDF  Design literature review Quiz

 Design requirement
 Data collection
 Analysis of different spaces of
4 TSS, BOOK museum Data Collection 10
 Display, Gallery location
 ISSUE BASED DEISGN

 Master planning
Architectural  Site analysis Presentation
5  Design Layout 5
Drawings Ching Butter sheets
 TECHNIQUE BASED
ENQUIRY
Mid jury Mid jury of Museum 28-12-2021 20

6,7 TSS  Design requirements Presentation/ jury 10

 Design planning

8  Elevation Final Jury 50

 Section

9  Final presentation

10 Final jury of Final jury of museum project 01-02-2022 60

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