Peiyun Liu

Vancouver Art Gallery Expansion Project

This project entails wrapping much of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s existing structure with new public circulation and adding two major volumes to facilitate new public programs and exhibition space. All of this is done while keeping the additions low enough to the ground to allow the facade of the existing building, a 20th-century neoclassical landmark, to be visible from the nearby streets. The resulting scheme gives visitors access to the rooftop of the newly added volume, where they can experience the historical building as a new form of urban terrain by observing it at different angles and altitudes.

Advisor: George Baird