Floating Museum is an art collective that creates new models: exploring relationships between art, community, architecture, and public institutions. Using site-responsive art, design, and programming they explore the potential in these relationships, considering the infrastructure, history, and aesthetics of a space.

During ARCH/INARCH 3900, I worked with one of the founders of Floating Museum, Andrew Schachman, on the architectural redesign of the collective’s new home base at 949 E 75th Street in Chicago. It was important the new space was considerate and respectful to the surrounding residential neighborhood, while also serving as a studio and workspace that catered to high productivity and large scale projects. The proposed redesign centers around the exploration of the relationships between mass and void, questioning whether a mass could be exterior or a void could be interior, and vise versa.