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Vol.15(1)(2024)

  • A Study of Spatial Layouts for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

    Mohd. Anis Yaziq Alimin (School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, MALAYSIA),
    Yasser Arab (Department of Architectural Engineering, Dhofar University, Salalah, SULTANATE of OMAN),
    Ahmad Sanusi Hassan(School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, MALAYSIA),
    Maryam Saeed (Department of Architectural Engineering, Dhofar University, Salalah, SULTANATE of OMAN),
    Hilary Omatule Onubi (School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, MALAYSIA),
    Bhattraradej Witchayangkoon (Department of Civil Engineering, Thammasat School of Engineering, Thammasat University, THAILAND).

    Discipline: Architectural Engineering.

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    doi: 10.15456/ITJEMAST.2024.4

    Keywords: Building typology; Space syntax; Wayfinding; Staff circulation; Permeability; Measurable scale graph; Visitor movement; Visitor interaction; Visitor circulation; Museum configuration.

    Abstract
    This study aims to understand Gwathmey Siegel and Associate Architects, expanding the building's Wright concept in 1992. Museums were complex systems that seemed to affect visitor movement patterns stochastically in spatial layouts, thus influencing perception and experience. The paper implies Wright's introduction of three key concepts to the design of the Guggenheim; shaping how people move around its layout, assessing gallery arrangements as different social spaces, and maintaining an important role in visitor interaction in arranging spaces and artwork. Some findings also point to disappointments: the study finds that most visitors used the ramp to move in the area, contrary to Wright's concept of visitors moving up and down the ramp (main gallery). Thus, during the upward journey, more significant interaction with the artwork occurred. Visitors had little or no engagement with the art on the way down, preserving frequent contact with the atrium. Findings also question Peponis (1993) reflective research on the museum's impediment to stochastic spatial effects on the configuration's discovery and interaction. Visitors often stopped and took photos of the space, themselves, and their friends, even at different ramp levels.

    Paper ID: 15A1D

    Cite this article:

    Alimin, M. A. Y., Arab, Y., Hassan, A. S., Saeed, M., Onubi, H. O., and Witchayangkoon, B. (2024). A Study of Spatial Layouts for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 15(1), 15A1D, 1-12. http://TUENGR.COM/V15/15A1D.pdf DOI: 10.15456/ITJEMAST.2024.4

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