Situated at a prominent street corner, this addition to the Carnegie Museum of Art gives pedestrians a hint of the collections that lie within, glimpsed and heard through a series of slits in the concrete facade and cantilevered floors, enticing them to enter. The film archive is imagined as a new hub of activity, open to the public and energizing the otherwise quiet commercial street in the evenings. Volumes containing a library and film exhibition galleries float around the multistory atrium, while the archival film storage is kept in a climate controlled volume in the heart of the building, glimpsed from the public atrium, but reserved for researchers.

Above: Hand-drafted final presentation section-perspective.

Above left: multistory atrium. Above right: exterior views of film archive model.

Above: Process drawing – revealing and concealing fragments of sound and imagery with a system of slits.

Above: Process model, exploring system of planes to reveal and conceal views.

Above: Conceptual drawing, mapping three phenomena of my choice at three times of day on the adjacent commercial street: what draws people in (“People Catchers”), what attracts or repels one’s vision (“Visual Magnetism”), and the illusory spaces created by the reflections and reflections of reflections, seeming to link storefronts across the street from each other (“Transparency Networks”).