san jose state university museum of art + design

Location:  San Jose, California
Date:  2002-2003
Type: educational + cultural (competition)
Firm:  SPF:architects
Role:  Project Designer  [Ed Ogosta]

Award:
Phase I - top 5 shortlist (vs. 179 entries); Phase II - honorable mention

Publications:
Competitions magazine, Summer 2003

Project Description:
The site for SJSU’s University Art Museum is an arena for radically conflicting external and internal forces—campus master plan, existing building, solar orientation, program, constructability, and budget.  Our proposal reconciled these forces via a ribbon-like metal membrane which delineates the resultant form of the building. This ribbon is a two-dimensional folding surface that simultaneously generates three-dimensional space and provides an external presence to the promenade.  The anticipated spatial experience of the museum will thus be dynamic both on the exterior and interior.