STATIC MOTION | Eli Whitney Museum

The project is an extension for the Eli Whitney Museum in New Haven, which was established in 1979 as a non-profit historic and educational organization. The form is generated by capturing the frames of a rotating box on the site from different modes of transportation. The speed of cars, runners, pedestrians, and water current are used as units of measure which ultimately deform the way we apprehend a volume on a site. The Eli Whitney Museum has a long tradition of making and using moving objects as a tool for learning. Therefore, freezing in time the intangible movement of a volume is used as a way to express the program in the form itself. The project is treated as a scenography from land to water, as a slow promenade through the exhibition.

New Haven, Connecticut

Fall 2013 // Critic: Brennan Buck