OMA to renovate galleries in Gio Ponti's Denver Art Museum
OMA New York, led by Shohei Shigematsu, has revealed plans to reconfigure and renovate the design galleries inside the Denver Art Museum designed by famed Italian architect Gio Ponti.
The renovations are part of a series of phased reopenings of the Colorado museum's Martin Building designed by Ponti in 1971.
Other components of the multi-stage project, led by Machado Silvetti Architects and Fentress Architects, include campus reunification, exterior site improvements and providing visitor access to the seventh floor terrace.
OMA's plan involves overhauling 10,000 square-feet (929 square-metre) of the building's original footprint to create three distinct spaces: the Joanne Posner-Mayer Mezzanine Gallery, the Ellen Bruss Design Studio and the Amanda J Precourt Design Galleries. "The three new spaces are more than just galleries for consuming design," said OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu.
"They each have their own spatial and programmatic identities but work collectively as a platform for discourse around the boundless contexts of design."
To create the new areas, the studio will horizontally bisect a gallery on the museum's first level. By doing so the architects, will add a "piazza-like" galleries and an interactive design studio that takes cues from Ponti's works.
"The three new rooms amplify Ponti's intention ? distinct yet interconnected, the interactive Design Studio and piazza-like Design Galleries simulate urban activity within th...
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