Project The Museum of the City is a radically flexible exhibition machine for understanding the city. It is more closely related to a cultural center than a museum; rather than a backwards-looking repository for historical objects, it is a forum for the invention of the culture of tomorrow. The Museum of the City combines a small semi-permanent and frequently rotating exhibition with a larger space for temporary and / or traveling content. It is a significant public space in the city, a space for public and semi-public events, and provides all of the infrastructure and service spaces necessary for supporting these activities. Each student team created a detailed program interpretation on an assigned brief with a total area of 2500m2.
Site The project is located in a transition area at the west edge of the city center of Calgary between the central business district, a residential neighborhood, and a cultural and park campus on the south bank of the Bow River. The project site is bounded by the Kerby LRT station to the south, 11 Street SW to the west, the lane to the north, and a residential building to the east (The Hat at 1116 7 Avenue SW). The site is approximately 91.6 meters wide east to west and 37.6 meters deep north to south.
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