Deflection + Bennington Museum

Honor Award; SoA Archive Project; 2019 Fall; Architectural Design Studio 3; Second Year; Professor: Adam Dayem; Individual Work;

Thinking of the museum as the medium that artistically transformed the site and interior spaces outwardly and inwardly, this project reimagines the evaluation of architecture in an understanding of the evaluation of artwork: the object and the field. Perspective projection and facade geometry are designed from the rules learned from Sol LeWitt’s artwork and Grandma Moses’s Painting. With these visual studies as well as geometric transformation, Deflection + Bennington Museum extends the original museum, which is being protected in the overall massing to reduce the damage made on the building, better preserving its historic treasures, nevertheless, it is refined with new organizations for the programming inside and modern technologies on the exterior. They are hugged by the new geometry rule but still reminds the respectful history of the Bennington Museum. All in all, the two museums see each other as individuals but are logically entangled in circulations and programing as one design for the new Bennington Museum + Deflection.