NATIVE AMERICAN MUSEUM

ARCH 254 Studio

PROFESSOR Fatih Rifki

SPRING 2020

The intention of the Native American Museum is to provide a place for gathering and education for the Blackfeet and Northern Cheyenne tribes in Helena, Montana. The integration of public and sacred spaces led to a series of tapering corridors that transistioned between each program. Abstractions taken from a series of mountains, vital to the Helena tribes, were converted to a multiplicty of blocks to pay homage and further define spacial quality.

The form is derived from the golden ratio that was informed by the growth patterns of the nautilus shell. The nautilus shell similarly faces endangerment and capitol exploitation, thus is a primary design influence.