Architecture studio Adjaye Associates has revealed its design for a new art gallery at Princeton University that will have numerous entrances to connect it to the campus.
Adjaye Associates, working with Cooper Robertson as executive architect, has designed a series of pavilions wrapped in bands of alternating rough and polished stone for the art gallery.
The new building will replace the existing 1920s, 1960s and 80s structures and double the size of the Princeton University Art Museum.
Top: The museum will occupy a series of interlocked pavilions. Above: Galleries will be on the first floor
It will contain nine galleries and two large entrance halls in cuboid boxes wrapped around the McCormick Hall, which contains the Marquand Library and will be retained. The majority of the gallery space will be raised up onto the first floor, with the ground floor given over to access routes across the site and public spaces to create a "campus within a campus".
The Grand Hall sits between the galleries
"The ground floor is designed to work with the campus's pre-existing paths and networks," said Adjaye Associates founder David Adjaye.
"We envisage it as a space that can be open 24 hours to students whilst the museum operates with its own time schedule above it," he told Dezeen.
The Grand Stair is the main route to the galleries
Adjaye Associates placed the galleries in a series of interlocking cubes to break down the scale of the museum and allow t...