Project 3
Human Rights Museum
2015
The site plan reveals relevant monuments in Ottawa, which frame the building program. The architecture responds to a
complex topography embedded along the river shoreline. Initial gesture drawing offers a heuristic process of form making. The Ottawa Tulip Festival provides a conceptual basis for later developments in Canadian post-war human rights that informs the museum program.
The tower sprouts from the ground, offering views to particular monuments of the city that structure the gallery program. The base forms a topographical extension of the ground plane supported by archival blocks that protrude onto an accessible roof top. Its sequence hinges along the hill creating entrances that afford symmetry breaking light wells. Open public spaces accompany storage viewing galleries.
The application of a loose drawing method, highlighted by strong light and dark contrast gives a rough spatiality to the building perspective that radiates its own light in this sublime night setting.
