Casson Mann museum interior atrium
An immersive museum atrium precedent showcasing a bold blue floor, suspended exhibition elements, and a central landscape feature beneath a large glass roof.
- What we like about this project
- Life-sized marine mammal and fish models suspended mid-air across the entire upper volume of the atrium.
Materials
- painted-floor
- glass
- steel
- wood
- planted-foliage
Visual identifiers
- blue-floor
- hanging-marine-models
- glass-atrium-roof
- central-planted-island
Style tags
- exhibition-design
- theatrical
- contemporary-museum
Visual tags
- atrium
- museum
- exhibition-design
- daylit
- public-space
- Geometry
- Multi-story symmetrical atrium wrapped by colonnaded balconies, topped with a grid glass skylight roof.
- Structural guess
- Steel truss roof supporting glass skylights with surrounding column-and-beam gallery framework.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental multi-story atrium scale with hanging models that span several meters.
- Lighting
- Diffused natural daylight filtering through the overhead glass roof, supplemented by directional track lighting on perimeter columns.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, immersive, and educational with a playful underwater theme.
- Environmental context
- Large public museum interior space with multi-level gallery balconies looking inward.
- Spatial experience
- A grand, theatrical interior volume where hanging exhibits and a central rocky mound draw the eye upward and across the blue ground plane.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating white perimeter columns create a steady vertical colonnade rhythm around the central void.
- Style reading
- Theatrical museum exhibition interior
- Program
- Museum exhibition atrium and public gathering space
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- painted-floor, glass, steel, wood, planted-foliage
- Visual identifiers
- blue-floor, hanging-marine-models, glass-atrium-roof, central-planted-island
- Style tags
- exhibition-design, theatrical, contemporary-museum
- Visual tags
- atrium, museum, exhibition-design, daylit, public-space
- Geometry
- Multi-story symmetrical atrium wrapped by colonnaded balconies, topped with a grid glass skylight roof.
- Structural guess
- Steel truss roof supporting glass skylights with surrounding column-and-beam gallery framework.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental multi-story atrium scale with hanging models that span several meters.
- Lighting
- Diffused natural daylight filtering through the overhead glass roof, supplemented by directional track lighting on perimeter columns.
- Atmosphere
- Vibrant, immersive, and educational with a playful underwater theme.
- Environmental context
- Large public museum interior space with multi-level gallery balconies looking inward.
- Spatial experience
- A grand, theatrical interior volume where hanging exhibits and a central rocky mound draw the eye upward and across the blue ground plane.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating white perimeter columns create a steady vertical colonnade rhythm around the central void.
- Style reading
- Theatrical museum exhibition interior
- Program
- Museum exhibition atrium and public gathering space
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior