This project’s original brief was to display artifacts from the PennMuseum within a chamber in the museum's courtyard; our proposal is an architectural intervention which seeks to object to the objective curation of museum exhibits. The museum, as a Western institution, is inherently non-objective. In this sense, the objects held within the museum are contextualized, or rather, decontextualized by the museum’s Western connotations (epistemologies). Our architectural intervention encourages the visitors to question the relationship between the museum and the objects it holds. While our chamber may not explicitly explain colonialism or repatriation to visitors, it aims to create awareness of a relationship between Western institutions and non-Western objects that is not balanced and not objective. How can museums reimagine future exhibits? Do architectural interventions become the new exhibits for forward-thinking museums in the United States?

ABSENCE

REMOVING VIEWS FROM MUSEUM CONTEXT

OVERLAPPING NICHE

INTROSPECTIVE NICHE

VIEW TO THE SE

SOLIDS AND SHELLS

FABRICATION DIAGRAM

DRIPPING STONE

UNFOLDED ELEVATION

VIEW TO THE NW

MATERIALITY