美国惠特尼博物馆设计方案

America Whitney Museum
设计方：伦佐?皮亚诺建筑工作室（Renzo Piano Building Workshop）、Cooper Robertson
位置：美国
设计团队：K.Schorn, T.Stewart, S.Ishida (partner), A.Garritano, F.Giacobello, I.Guzman, G.Melinotov, L. Priano
合作方：M.Carroll, E.Trezzani
摄影师：Nic Lehoux, Timothy Schenck, Karin Jobst

这是由伦佐?皮亚诺建筑工作室与Cooper Robertson联合设计的惠特尼博物馆。该博物馆的新址位于市中心曼哈顿肉类加工区。该项目将于2015年开放，加大惠特尼的展览空间和功能空间，收藏并展出超过19000件现代和当代美国艺术作品。这个8层高的新建筑，外墙为淡蓝色的钢面板表皮，不对称设计。博物馆入口是一个充满张力的悬挑“largo”，这个公共空间可作为街道与博物馆之间的缓冲空间，又可作为欣赏哈德逊河和高线公园入口的共享空间。主入口大堂同时兼作公共画廊，是自由出入的展览空间。建筑核心筒北侧的三至七层，布置了博物馆办公室、教育中心、保护实验室和图书阅览馆，同时还包括五楼的电影、录像和表演的多功能剧院。最顶层则布置了“工作室”画廊和咖啡厅。
From the architect. The Whitney Museum is building itself a new home in downtown Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Due to open in 2015, the project will substantially enlarge the Whitney’s exhibition and programming space, enabling the first comprehensive view of the Museum’s growing collection, which today comprises more than 19,000 works of modern and contemporary American art.

Founded in 1930, the Whitney moved to its current Madison Avenue home, designed by Marcel Breuer, in 1966. At the time, its collection numbered some 2,000 pieces of 20th-century American art, so its nearly 100-fold expansion needs space to flourish. The new museum is to be situated in New York’s vibrant Meatpacking District. Fronting onto Gansevoort Street, the site lies between the Hudson and the High Line, Manhattan’s recently completed elevated urban park, built on a disused elevated spur of the 1930s New York Central Railroad.

Clad in pale blue-grey steel panels, the new, eight-storey building is powerfully asymmetrical, with the bulk of the full-height museum to the west, Hudson-side, with tiers of lighter terraces and glazed walkways stepping down to the High Line, embracing it into the project.The Museum is entered via a dramatically cantilevered ‘largo’, a public space that serves as a kind of decompression chamber between street and museum, a shared space, with views to the Hudson and the High Line entrance just a few steps away. Accessed from the ‘largo’, the main entrance lobby also serves as a public gallery – of free-entry exhibition space.Level three houses a 170-retractible seat theatre with double-height views over the Hudson River, along with technical spaces and offices.

Some 50,000 sq. ft (4 650 sq. m) of gallery space is distributed over levels five, six, seven and eight, the fifth level boasting a 18,000 sq ft (1670 sq. m), column-free gallery – making it the largest open-plan museum gallery in New York City. This gallery is reserved for temporary exhibitions and its expansive volume will enable the display of really large works of contemporary art. The permanent collection is exhibited on two floors, level six and seven. These two floors also step back towards the west to create 13,000 sq ft (1 200 sq. m) of outdoor sculpture terraces.Museum offices, education centre, conservation laboratories and library reading room are situated north of the building’s core on levels three to seven, including a multi-use theatre for film, video and performance on level five.Finally, on the top floor is the ‘studio’ gallery and a café, naturally lit by a skylight system in saw-tooth configuration.

美国惠特尼博物馆外部实景图
美国惠特尼博物馆外部实景图

美国惠特尼博物馆外部实景图

美国惠特尼博物馆外部实景图

美国惠特尼博物馆外部实景图

美国惠特尼博物馆外部实景图

美国惠特尼博物馆外部实景图

美国惠特尼博物馆外部夜景实景图

美国惠特尼博物馆外部夜景实景图

美国惠特尼博物馆内部实景图