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Description

The final project of the study abroad semester was to re-design the Musée de Arts et Méiters. It is currently in an older, small building and the program called for an update of facilities, as well as the addition of offices and a cafe which is missing from the current museum. Because of the proximity of the site to the Line 5, I added a part of the museum that included information on the history of the Paris Métro. Currently the museum has a small exhibit on the new Line 14's automation system, but little else. The new exhibit would give a virtual reality tour, history, an interactive map with live data from the system, as well as a live look into Line 5 by though a window. Because of its proximity to the subway, the whole exhibit will shake when the trains rumble by.

The Site

The site was located along the Canal St. Martin, a canal that shortcuts the Seine river. Construction started during the times of Napoleon and was finished in 1825. In the 60s it was planned to be filled in, but it was saved and instead the canal was buried in a tunnel and roads built over. Because of the change in elevation there are 8 or so sets of locks. We took a tour of the canal, which took about 2 hours to get through the 5km canal and out to the Seine. The site for the new museum was a wide part of the canal where they stored boats. The site is right next to the site of the Bastille and the river. It is a narrow strip of land between the canal and the streets on either side. I took the north site and designed long building gripping the site from the corner of the Bastille two blocks long to the abandoned Arsenale station.

Aerial

Diagrams

The first diagram shows the modular system, the yellow spaces are the entrance halls and the bridge connecting either side of the canal. The blue bars are the 'cores' that repeat down the building which contain stairs, elevators, mechanical systems and the bathrooms. These cores support the large truss which supports the main exhibition spaces. The second diagrams shows the means of egress, the third the grid system, and the last shows the circulation 'spine' and the bridge.

Renderings

I created the standard plan, elevation and axonometric renderings. Also, below are two renderings in the large exhibit halls.

Presentation

Because of the lack of printing facilities, the boards, as they were, consisted of two 8½ x 11 patched together.