Morphosis recently unveiled their design for the new Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in in Costa Mesa, CA. The design features a 52,000-square-foot building, nearly doubling the OCMA's current exhibition space and expanding access to museum's permanent collection of modern and contemporary art.
A grand outdoor public stair joins the building to Arts Plaza to the north, creating an inviting gathering space for pedestrians and visitors
to the museum and adjacent performing arts venues.
The main floor of the new museum building will be dedicated to reconfigurable, open exhibition space supported by the mezzanine, black-box, and jewel-box galleries which will accommodate temporary and permanent collection.
The upper level will house administrative spaces and a roof terrace, which will occupy 70% of the building’s footprint. This open air roof level serves as an extension of the galleries with spaces to be configured for installations, a sculpture garden, outdoor film screenings, or events.
A hovering sculptural wing shapes the lobby atrium and creates a prominent location for the educational hall illuminated by a full-height window overlooking the terrace.
The distinctive high-performance façade, marked by undulating bands of metal paneling and glazing, plays off the architecture of neighboring cultural sites.
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becoming less and less interested in morphosis....everything just seems derivative of earlier work and not in a good or evolutionary way. I liked the work better when it was more about tectonic play than sinuous curves and code aesthetic.
the graphics make it look blurred and distorted, like one is experiencing the space on acid or something. is that to try to make the work look more interesting than it would really be?
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