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Anchorage Museum Rasmuson Wing
Anchorage Museum Rasmuson Wing
Anchorage, AK, United States
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Anchorage Museum Rasmuson Wing
Anchorage, AK, United States
"UP HERE the North is not a frontier. It is not the romantic North that belonged to former generations. It is connected, pivotal, and conflicted, both rarefied and ubiquitous" Anchorage M Strategic Plan 2014
Under the energetic new leadership, the Anchorage Museum is focused on telling the story of the North from the unique perspective of the people that live, work and play here. Following two major additions by world renowned architects the Museum facilitated a grass roots process led by Alaskan designers that explored how its vision should be expressed through a major building expansion.
The architecture of the new wing is grounded in place. Windowed galleries overlook the city's urban and natural surroundings, connecting Museum content to the environment it references. The facade is clad in zinc and Alaskan Yellow Cedar, echoing both the durability and the weathering that defines Alaska's built environment, with a contemporary design sensibility. Installed vertically, the Alaskan cedar enhances the building's overall design while distinguishing itself from both the brick of the 1980s addition, as well as the glass of the front-facing wing.
The interior galleries allows for the presence of daylight, washing the space with natural light that is ever-changing. Continuous heart pine floors, with a chalk finish and outlines of nails in the recycled wood, offer something more earnest and hardworking than pristine surfaces. Tall ceilings, large expanses of white walls and column-less open space are aspirational, hinting at the vastness of our environment and of the potential of arts of the North to occupy and define it. The Rasmuson Wing is a narrative of the North, paying tribute to our place, its materials, landscape, and voices - both past and future.
Additional Credits:
Julie Decker Anchorage Museum
Under the energetic new leadership, the Anchorage Museum is focused on telling the story of the North from the unique perspective of the people that live, work and play here. Following two major additions by world renowned architects the Museum facilitated a grass roots process led by Alaskan designers that explored how its vision should be expressed through a major building expansion.
The architecture of the new wing is grounded in place. Windowed galleries overlook the city's urban and natural surroundings, connecting Museum content to the environment it references. The facade is clad in zinc and Alaskan Yellow Cedar, echoing both the durability and the weathering that defines Alaska's built environment, with a contemporary design sensibility. Installed vertically, the Alaskan cedar enhances the building's overall design while distinguishing itself from both the brick of the 1980s addition, as well as the glass of the front-facing wing.
The interior galleries allows for the presence of daylight, washing the space with natural light that is ever-changing. Continuous heart pine floors, with a chalk finish and outlines of nails in the recycled wood, offer something more earnest and hardworking than pristine surfaces. Tall ceilings, large expanses of white walls and column-less open space are aspirational, hinting at the vastness of our environment and of the potential of arts of the North to occupy and define it. The Rasmuson Wing is a narrative of the North, paying tribute to our place, its materials, landscape, and voices - both past and future.
Additional Credits:
Julie Decker Anchorage Museum
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