明亮，开放，适宜环境却又过目难忘。具有良好的可达性。无论白天黑夜，都是一个醒目的存在。
非常感谢设计方 Eskew+Dumez+Ripple 将英文介绍和项目图片授权gooood 发行。
Appreciation towards Eskew+Dumez+Ripple for providing the following description:
Location Baton Rouge, Louisiana U.S.
Architect of Record Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
Project Size 69,000 square feet
Awards 2006 American Architecture Award
2006 AIA Gulf States Honor Award
2006 AIA New Orleans Honor Award
2005 AIA Louisiana Merit Award
2005 Louisiana Contractor Judge’s Award
his new museum is located on the Louisiana State Capitol grounds adjacent to the historic 1932 Capitol Tower and Gardens and presents to visitors a comprehensive history of the state. The museum’s siting establishes biaxial symmetry with the State Library across the street and along the central organizing axis of the Capitol Master Plan, which terminates in the Tower to the north. The museum can be approached from either of these two directions, where visitors converge at a large, covered terrace – a kind of over-scaled “porch”– that opens to the north to provide framed views of the Capitol and Gardens.
The envelope of the building is composed of cast-in-place concrete, glass and metal wall panels. The building facades respond to the adjacent context and vary from highly articulated to the east (where the site abuts a residential neighborhood) to a more restrained and purposeful composition on the remaining facades within the park. The metal wall panels on the west fa?ade transition from solid to perforated at the entry terrace, where the simple cubic volume gestures toward the Capitol. The perforated screen wall serves to filter the harsh western sun into the terrace and also acts as a scrim, changing in character from a shimmering, silvery object by day to an enigmatic, glowing presence at night.
