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The mezzanine ramp continues to rise until it penetrates the back wall, on the other side of which it becomes a landing at the entrance to the galleries. There are two main concepts in play in the designing of the skin. The building's corner location led to the development of two different, but complementary, facades. The south facade, along Sixth Street, forms an undulating, translucent skin, through which passersby see into the life of the Center. Offices - organized along this side to provide daylit working environments and views of the city - provide the facade with human animation. The east facade, along Walnut, is expressed as a sculptural relief. It provides an imprint, in negative, of the gallery interiors. The potential dynamism and density of the corner site, the lobby positions itself on the pedestrian level of the city as a fluid continuum of public paths and places. The fully glazed lobby is seen as a square continuously bringing in pedestrian movement through the simultaneous arrangement of horizontal and vertical elements.The city plan curves upward to make the ground plane and back plane continuous surface. Sources: |
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