The Museum of Nine to Five

The Museum of Nine to Five

Design Realization Report

Mathias Skafte Andersen

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�The Museum of Nine to Five�

Report for Design Realization course of the Aarhus School of Architecture

Mathias Skafte Andersen stud.cand.aarch maa Studio Constructing an Archive Unless otherwise noted, all works are by the author.

Supervised by: Claudia Carbone Teaching Associate Professor, Cand.arch Izabela Wieczorek Teaching Associate Professor, Architect, M.Sc., Ph.D.

Design Realization Mentors: Robert Schlemmer Chief Project Manager, Bascon Peter Voldstedlund Project Leader, Architect MAA, Friis og Moltke

Printed on 125 gsm Seawhite Paper Printrun: 5 Aarhus School of Architecture May 2016

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Table of contents

On the Mentors

Page 4—5

Introduction

Page 6—7

Programme

Page 8—11

Sketches

Page 12—15

Proposal

Page 16—37

Epilogue

Page 38—39

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On the Mentors

The project presented in this report has been externally mentored by Chief Project Manager and structural engineer Robert Schlemmer of Bascon and Project Leader and Architect MAA Peter Voldstedlund of Friis og Moltke Architects.

Robert has been a vital part of the development of the strutural framework of the project. Through meetings with Robert, important pieces of the project relating both to aesthetics, spatial organizations and material choices have come together.

Peter has contributed with guidance and advice on the proces of creating an architectural project concerning topics like idea generation, communication and project management.

The involvement of Peter and Robert in the design proces has had a large impact on both the architectural result of the project and the learning outcome of the semester.

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Bern Becher and Hilla Becher: ”Cooling Tower”, 1965

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Introduction

Manhattan, New York, has a a daytime population of about 4 million people. 1,4 million of those people actually live in Manhattan, while 1.6 million are commuters entering the the island for work in the morning and leaving in the evening. There is an avarage of 700.000 tourists in Manhattan everyday. They seek history as they look to the Empire State Building, culture as they visit The Rockefeller Centre and the Guggenheim. However, the story of the commuter—the majority New Yorker is left largely untold.

This project proposes a building to tell the commuter’s story— and to write it into history. It is called ”The Museum of Nine to Five”.

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Programme

�A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.�

ICOM Statues of 2007* The Museum of Nine to Five is to be a cultural institution dedicated to the research and exhibition of the worklife routines of commuters in Manhattan. Through a sequence of spatial manipulations, visitors will be exposed to abstractions on phenomena encountered by a commuter on his or her route from the subway station to the office.

Each space is to be developed based on a mapping of the site with considerations made to motion, materiality, light and sound. Each exhibition space of the Museum will be its own entity connected by an external circulation infrastructure.

* source: icom.museum/the-vision/museum-definition

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Events

Mapping

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Programme

The Museum is to be relevant to both tourists who are interested in getting a new perspecitive on life on Manhattan as well as locals who get a chance at immersing themselves in their everyday lives as spectators rather than participants.

To accomodate both users, Museum will contain a lobby, a coat check, bathrooms, a cafĂŠ, a gift shop, a terrace and an auditorium.

The Museum will be developed as a parasitic structure, meaning it will latch on to and have a relation to another building. The two are to be mutual benefactors of the addition of the Museum. The Museum must also have a clear relation to its context—it’s facade becoming a diagram of its intentions.

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Spatial concepts

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Sketches

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Spatial concepts

Hand sketching

system of repetition

frequency of visits

pace of space

dwelling working transit it’s surprising that spaces between repetitions are irregular,

book: screenshots of screen/ rhino

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subway car commuter mona lisa crowd

assymetrical plan iso object

Sketches

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3D testing

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Proposal

The proposal is situated by the intersection of 51st Street and Lexington Avenue on Manhattanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s East Side. The intersection houses the General Electric Building, the Groiler Building 345 Park Avenue and The Doubletree Hilton Hotel as well as a subway station, a fire station, police princinct and several restaurants, cafes and shops. It is on of the most busy intersections of Manhattanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;during the daytime. In fact, its only nighttime residents are the guests of the hotel.

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Siteplan

51st/Lexington Avenue

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The Doubletree Hilton Hotel located on 569 Lexington Avenue is the chosen as the host for the parastic sturctue. It is a 1960 building designed in the Miami style by architect Morris Lapidus. Hotel rooms are oriented south and north with hallways running centrally along the building. It features a large trapezoid elevator tower, shops and cafees on the ground floor and restaurant and conference rooms on the top. Its concrete structure is used to anchor the proposed building on the western facade which is currently unprogrammed.

Overview

The DoubleTree

Page 22—29

Hilton Hotel—

Plan Section

relation to existing building

The ramp—

Page 30—31

ascention and

Isometric Detail

circulation

Structure—

Page 32—33

programmatic

Isometric Detail

framework

Exhibition—

Page 34—35

spatial

Plan Isometric

experiences

Facade— superimposed measurement 20

Page 36—37

Elevation Detail

Exploded isometric

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Entrance

The Museum of Nine to Five is entered through the lobby of the Doubletree Hilton Hotel. The Museum hangs over the entrance in a supersized reference to the canpy entrance of the hotel. The glaced facade of the Museum extends lower than the building itselfâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thus already including the visitor in the Museum experience while on the sidewalk.

Through the lobby, the visitor is guided to the elevator lobby where a sign on the first floor button marks the way to the Museum.

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Plan

Ground Floor

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1:200

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Entrance

From the elevator lobby of the Hotel the visitor proceeds down a hallway as the Museum entrance reveals itself at the end. Opaque glacing on the outer facade casts a white light into the narrow entrance, it masks the appearance of the Museum lobby and marks a clear threshold between one building and the other.

The Museum lobby contains a ticket- and information counter, bathrooms and a coat check that will transport jackets and coats to the top floor of the Museum for later pickup. To the left of the desk, a ramp leads the visitor towards the first exhibition space.

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Plan

First floor

Storage Hotel room

Hotel room

Hotel room

Hotel room

Museum lobby

Elevator lobby

Museum entrance

Hotel room

Hotel room

Hotel room

Hotel room

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Circulation

The ramp wraps around the Museum and ascends in the space between the Museum and the Hotel. It leads the visitor from one exhibition space to the next while offering â&#x20AC;?behind the scenesâ&#x20AC;? views into the previous space. Each exhibition space in the sequence is designed to emulate an event, atmosphere, movement or sensation experienced in the everyday life of the New York commuter. The other side of the spaces are glaced in more or less exposed opaque glass panels letting in diffuse daylight but oscuring the view to the street.

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Section

Exhibition spaces

1:200

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Exit

From the elevator lobby of the Hotel the visitor proceeds down a hallway as the Museum entrance reveals itself at the end. Opaque glacing on the outer facade casts a white light into the narrow entrance, it masks the appearance of the Museum lobby and marks a clear threshold between one building and the other.

The Museum lobby contains a ticket- and information counter, bathrooms and a coat check that will transport jackets and coats to the top floor of the Museum for later pickup. To the left of the desk, a ramp leads the visitor towards the first exhibition space.

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Plan

9th floor

Elevator lobbyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; exit from Museum

Gift shop Terrace

Coat claim Auditorium

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1:200

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Isometric 1:200

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Ramp

Detail

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The ramp provides the facade for the Museum on three sides. It inhabits the space between the Museum (2) and the Hotel (2) and acts as the mediator for the steel structure anchored in the Hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s facde (3) counteracting the windload. It has an interior steel structure (4) and is clad in zink on all sides (5). The ramp itself has cement panel flooring (6).

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Isometric 1:200

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Structure

Detail

1:50

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The bearing structure of the Museum is made from steel. It consists of 6 metre vertical HEB300 beams (1) bolted together at the ends, horizontal HEB600 beams (2), floorbearing IPE160 beams (3) and wind crosses (4). The structure is hung from large steel trusses mounted on the roof of the Hotel. The trusses are anchored by beams extending into the existing building. The steel structure is the first to be constructed and is mounted entirely with bolts from the top down.

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Isometric 1:200

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Exhibition

Exerpt from the 8th floor

The exhibition spaces vary in materiality and general expression. They rest on the floorbearing IPE160 beams with a floor consisting of a steel deck, insulation and tiled floors, cement panels, carpets and more. Interior walls are constructed as regular gypsum walls with varying interior and exterior cladding. The top floor of the Museum connects back to the Hotel where a conference room is utilized as a gift shop, an auditorium and the anchor point for the steel construction.

Isometric 1:200

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Facade

Elevation 1:200

The facade of the Museum is constructed from UPE profiles in a square grid. Inside the grid opaque white glass is mounted to allow light intake while obscuring views in and out of the building. The facade extends below the building to create the experience of an immersive space on the sidewalk below. Along one side of the facade zink clad tube is attached with suspension wires. It contains a lift for the transportation of coats from bottom to top. The top floor of the Museum is left exposed. Here, the first unobstructed view of the exterior is provided along with a small terazzo.

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Epilogue

The Museum of Nine to Five aims to become an attraction for tourists as well as local New Yorkers. It is a contemporary Museum that will adapt itself to changes in society and add perspective on the present conditions of worklife in Manhattan. It will add value to the Doubletree Hotel as it attracts more visitors while offering both a cafĂŠ and an auditorium as well as interesting spaces to be used for events, art performances and educational purposes.

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Aarhus School of Architecture

May 2016