UC DAVIS ART MUSEUM PROPOSAL / WORKAC

Last year the University of California, Davis invited three invited three
architects to compete for the chance to design their new $30 million art
museum, slated to open in 2016. The competition was a design-build affair,
with each entrant being asked to pair up with a contractor and   submit a
holistic design. For those who missed it, SO – IL were announced yester day
as the winners of the competition. Here we present one of two runner-up
submissions from WORKac. The concept revolves around creating a
distinctive bea con, which would be a center point for an overlap between
art, higher-education, and everyday-life. The parallelogram form is intended
to create a dynamic space which creates opportunities for interplay with the
proposed landscape and surrounding area. Inside a collection of formal and
informal, open and intimate are arranged along two axes, pinned together
with a bright common space.