The Museum’s height and volume carefully mediate the transition between its commercial and residential neighbors. Its warping and curving western façade contrasts the angular faceted east façade and sculpturally sets the Museum apart from the expected. The architecture is shaped by the sun, capturing a unique identity with the geologic formations of the mythical Black Rock Desert. The carefully lapped handcrafted random seam pattern of the Anthra-Zinc, applied over the west facades, exaggerate the form of the building with a unique organic tapestry of shade and shadow.
Entry into the Museum is through a compressed
wedge of intimately scaled walls inserted under the raked black ceiling
of the first level public spaces. The visitor is at once inside and
outside in a glass pavilion and four-story skylight atrium, carving
through the entire section of the building. Lifting ones eyes upward,
the atrium is an ever-changing chamber of form, light, and shadow.
Carefully shaped and proportioned wall apertures and skylights with
unique lenses of clear and translucent filmed glazing act as light
magnifiers,
refracting the changing light of the days and seasons.
The roof terrace sculpture garden caps the atrium and staircase. Taking over more than half of the roof's surface, this space is formed by the edges of the building as they sweep up on a rake to the sky where the syncopated rhythm of crevices on the west frame the city, the sky, and distant views of the Black Rock Desert.
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