Lamborghini Museum
Surface and Structure
How can a museum elevate the relationship between innovative manufacturing methods and the public it benefits?
Course: Architectural Design IV
Instructor: Dennis Sander
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The Lamborghini Museum is foremost a project in the relationship between surface and structure. A continuous horizontal interiority is facilitated by five towers which structural behave as pylons. Bridges span the distance between the pylons and support four discrete architectural segments. Each segment surface geometry is optimized to bring in light to satisfy and accentuate programmatic needs: the car gallery, the library, the archives, and the offices constitute the main programmatic elements. Urbanistically, the act of hoisting the building thirty feet in the air liberates the property for future development, which anticipates factory expansion and infrastructural improvements. while affording the museum a greater regional presence; this is critical to attracting passers-by from the nearby freeway and generating enough revenue to maintain financial autonomy. As new Lamborghinis are manufactured and prototyped, the buildings five towers will serve as large lifts to facilitate vertical transport. The vast clear span continuity produces an interiority which approaches the territorial scale. Compounded this continuity with both public and temporal programming, the museum is conceptualized as an interior park; a technological playground suspended in its own artificial horizon.